3D Bioprinting Solutions , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that made headlines last year when it printed the world’s first functional thyroid construct for a mouse, is to make a 3D bioprinter for printing tissue and organ constructs on board...
President Vladimir Putin inspected life-changing medical solutions made by resident companies of the Skolkovo Foundation at the Strategic Initiatives Forum in Moscow on Thursday. President Vladimir Putin greeting a little girl with a prosthetic hand while...
If scientists invented an anti-ageing pill that would help you live to the age of 120, would you take it? Think carefully, because if it sounds like science fiction, it’s not. Ageing is a treatable disease like any other, according to some scientists...
Вообразите мир, в котором укус комара или царапина от шипа розы означают смертный приговор. 14 марта 1941 года в английской больнице умер пациент Альберт Александер. Причиной смерти стала инфекция, попавшая в ранку – царапину на щеке: Александер был садоводом...
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...
Napoleon once allegedly described England as a nation of shopkeepers, but if he were around today, he would say the U.K. is a nation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), according to U.K. clinical research expert Dr. Ignazio di Giovanna. Jonathan Brenton...
Russian pharmaceutical companies looking to enter the U.K. market – and vice versa – will meet with their British counterparts at a two-day conference at the Skolkovo innovation centre next week to forge new partnerships in developing innovative...
In the Netherlands, a leader in the fast-growing field of e-health, people living with Parkinson’s disease are not alone, whatever their personal situation. ParkinsonNet – a network of doctors, health professionals specializing in Parkinson’s...
«Вся земля не стоит даже одной капли бесполезно пролитой крови», - говорил Суворов. Если подсчитать капли крови, с которыми по нескольку раз в день вынуждены расставаться 350 миллионов человек, или 6% населения Земли, страдающего диабетом, получатся...
Scientists from four universities including the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) have published an overview of molecules that could help in the treatment and diagnosis of prostate cancer – the most common cancer among men in the...
A four-year-old boy from the Russian city of St. Petersburg got a life-changing birthday present last week when he was given a functioning prosthetic hand designed to resemble his favourite cartoon hero. A video of the little boy, Fyodor, using his bright...
“Did you know that more than 70 percent of cancer patient deaths are caused not by the cancer itself, but by the side effects of chemotherapy?” With this shocking statistic just minutes into the presentation of his product, Andrei Garazha has the...
“What’s Russia famous for? The Kalashnikov – the AK47,” says Vladimir Mironov, chief scientific officer at 3D Bioprinting Solutions . “Well now we have a different motto: not shoot to kill, but shoot to heal – using a tissue...
As Russia marked Russian Science Day on February 8, a delegation from Germany’s Helmholtz Association of research centres visited the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) to discuss ways of improving cooperation between the two countries’...
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...
За прошлое десятилетие исследователи в области биотехнологий запустили несколько значимых проектов, приведших к прогрессу в изучении смертельно-опасных заболеваний и стандартизации генетических банков данных. Специалисты 32 стран мира сейчас свободно обмениваются...
В Москве на ВДНХ завершил свою работу четвертый форум «Открытые инновации». Столичный мэр Сергей Собянин на правах хозяина предложил сделать ВДНХ постоянной площадкой для проведения «Открытых инноваций». Градоначальник отметил...
ГАВАНА. Четверть века назад бывший японский премьер Ясухиро Накасонэ изложил в книге «Государственная стратегия Японии в XXI веке» 10 приоритетных задач, от которых зависит будущее нации; первой в списке фигурировало создание лекарств от болезни...
ГАВАНА. В каждой олимпийской золотой медали, которую завоевывают кубинские спортсмены, 50% по праву принадлежит кубинским спортивным врачам. Так считает Хорхе Павел Пино Ривера, гендиректор Системы спортивной медицины Кубы. В интервью Sk.ru главный спортивный...
Совместное исследование резидентов «Сколково» компаний «АлгоМост» и « АнгиоСкан Электроника» доказало нестабильность сигнала волны сердечно-сосудистого ритма человека . Эта работа стала началом исследований, которые приведут...
На Петербургском международном экономическом форуме компания IBM, Фонд «Сколково» и Первый Онкологический Научно-Консультационный Центр (ПОНКЦ) подписали меморандум о взаимопонимании. Документ предусматривает формирование первого в своем роде стратегического...
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Skolkovo is starting to produce tangible results, despite being less than five years old. From left: Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, his advisor Pekka Viljakainen, and Prime Minister Medvedev. Photo: sk.ru ...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
Skolkovo biomed cluster resident 3D Bioprinting Solutions has announced the successful printing of a mouse’s thyroid gland. 3D Bioprinting Solutions unveiled Russia's first bioprinter in October. Photo: 3D Bioprinting Solutions If confirmed...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...