The Skolkovo Foundation has joined forces with the U.K.’s AMR Centre, a private-public initiative launched in 2016 to support and accelerate the development of new antibiotics, to combat the global problem of antimicrobial resistance. Skolkovo's...
The gigantic oceanarium that opened in Russia’s Far East last year could become a centre of excellence in aquaculture with the help of the Skolkovo innovation centre. The Primorsky Oceanarium opened in the Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok last...
As the world discusses the ethics of growing human organs in pigs , scientists gathered at the Skolkovo Foundation last week to discuss an equally divisive topic: that of human genome modification. Scientists in the U.S. are currently making headlines...
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates proclaimed. Almost 2,500 years later, biologists and geneticists around the world have come to the conclusion that he was right. With antibiotics in...
The saying goes that if you want to stay friends with people, you shouldn’t talk about religion or politics. In the 21 st century, perhaps another subject should be added to the list of taboo subjects in polite company: genomics. One genomics debate...
The team behind Russia's biggest genome project to date, Genome Russia, is holding a “bake off” of genome sequencing centres to determine which centre would handle the crucial task most efficiently. There's just one problem: if the winner...
National genome projects that study the gene pool of a specific country can not only reveal much about a country’s history and its inhabitants’ roots, they can also bring about advances in medical treatment. But while some countries have poured...
As nations across the globe marked World Cancer Day on February 4, the Skolkovo Foundation announced the creation of a new Cancer Centre of Excellence. The new centre is set to coordinate the work of all the startup companies and partners currently working...
Skolkovo has begun accepting applications from startup companies in the agriculture business and expects its first residents by the end of the year, opening up new avenues of research that experts say are of critical importance for biotech in Russian and beyond...
В рамках проходящей в иннограде международной конференции Startup Village состоялась сессия «Селекция в растениеводстве и животноводстве». По словам директора по науке биомедицинского кластера «Сколково» Юрия Никольского, – это...