Rusbase, an independent website devoted to technology, business and investment, published a list on Tuesday of the top five most interesting biotech startups in Russia, and all are residents of the Skolkovo Foundation. An ExoAtlet pilot demonstrates the...
Russia’s first commercial research biobank, National BioService , opened a brand new laboratory at the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday. The National BioService lab at the Skolkovo Technopark will be used for both the company's own research and...
Pharm-Sintez.Lab , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s nuclear cluster, has developed a system for detecting rare forms of cancer in Russian patients. Lev Voloznev, CEO of Pharm-Sintez.Lab, pictured in his lab at the Skolkovo Technopark...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed a cooperation agreement with BioCubaFarma, Cuba’s biggest biotech company, continuing a series of agreements and mutual visits between the foundation and the island nation. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, right...
Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest and deepest lake, is in danger. For several years now, the water near the shores of the vast Siberian lake has been turning green with algae, and satellite images reveal that that is only a small part of a much bigger problem...
Amid the satellites, virtual reality headsets, 3D printers and other hi-tech products on show at Skolkovo’s recent Startup Bazaar, the stand housing a cage of buzzing flies and jar of writhing maggots stood out. Also on the table were jars of dried and...
From its beginning, one of Skoltech’s guiding principles was to interface with industrial commercialization and venture opportunities as they develop at Skolkovo and elsewhere. This week Skoltech has realized this principle, as it has signed its first...
Clinical trials of Russia’s first medical exoskeleton have begun in a Moscow hospital, marking the latest step in the Skolkovo-backed innovation’s battle to reach the market. A patient at the Pirogov Center testing out ExoAtlet's exoskeleton...
Sk.ru continues its series on innovators in the metals industry, speaking this week to one of the founders of Skolkovo resident FerrAl-Tech, a high-tech startup that is developing a novel way of removing the oxygen from steel during the steelmaking process...
A new 3D face recognition system developed by Skolkovo IT cluster resident Vocord FaceControl has proved flawless in testing, the company says. The biometric face recognitions system Vocord FaceControl 3D is built upon 3D machine vision, and during testing...
A 30 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation is helping a team of Russian scientists develop potentially one of the most effective drugs yet to fight cardiovascular disease – the primary cause of death in Russia and the wider world. Dmitry...