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New Skoltech students thrown in at deep end with Innovations Workshop
You have seven days to think up an original idea for a tech startup. You are put in a team with several other people whom you haven’t met before and whose area of expertise is not the same as yours...
14.09.2016, Статьи

A Skolkovo startup’s quest to obtain antibiotics from algae – and save Lake Baikal
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...
08.09.2016, Статьи

Eton students wowed by surgery simulators, drones and exoskeletons during visit to Skolkovo
A group of students from Eton College, the U.K.’s most famous school, visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday, where they were inspired by a selection of Russian startups including an...
25.08.2016, Статьи

Skolkovo's international medical hub to be 'one of biggest in Eastern Europe'
The first building of the Moscow International Medical Cluster (MMMK), a planned state-of-the-art medical facility being built at the Skolkovo innovation centre, is growing visibly on a daily basis. Moscow...
22.08.2016, Статьи

‘It’s nothing that we can’t do:’ why Russia needs its own hi-tech prostheses
Konstantin Deblikov deftly extends one black, bionic finger to rub the side of his nose as he talks. The casual observer might think that the young journalist from Voronezh has complete mastery of his...
17.08.2016, Статьи

Kids and adults flock to Moscow for ‘Cybathlon’ competition for disabled ‘pilots’ and their high-tech limbs
Moscow hosted the world’s first ever international Cybathlon today, as children and adults flocked to the city to compete to move everyday objects around using prosthetic hands, British newspaper...
15.08.2016, Пресса о нас

Motorica hosts Russia’s first Cybathlon for prosthesis users ahead of ‘Cyborg Olympics’
Moscow will see its first ever Cybathlon on August 13 for users of bionic prosthetic hands and arms, organised by Skolkovo resident Motorica, which makes roboticised prosthetic hands for children and adults...
09.08.2016, Статьи

Skolkovo’s newest resident looks to combat aging using artificial intelligence
Insilico, the latest startup to join the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, aims to apply artificial intelligence to extend human productive longevity and transform the pharmaceutical industry...
04.08.2016, Статьи

Skolkovo resident to print 3D organs on board ISS amid radiation exposure fears
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...
02.08.2016, Новости

Putin examines work of Skolkovo startups at Strategic Initiatives Forum in Moscow
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...
22.07.2016, Статьи

Scientists seek to bottle secret of extended youth
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...
06.07.2016, Статьи

Beyond beauty: industrial design festival aims to give Russian startups a commercial makeover
For three days this week, Skolkovo will be transformed into an international centre of industrial design, promise the organisers of an event aimed at helping tech startups to use design as a tool to commercialize...
28.06.2016, Статьи

On the menu of the future: crushed maggots
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...
16.06.2016, Статьи

Express stroke test maker takes second place at Asian Entrepreneurship Award
DRD Biotech, a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes rapid tests for diagnosing strokes and other conditions affecting the brain, won second prize at the Asian Entrepreneurship Award in...
09.06.2016, Новости

“Nature already invented a cure for HIV”: how human genome editing could change the world
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...
07.06.2016, Новости