A team of researchers led by MIPT’s Allan Kalueff has studied chronic stress in zebrafish and determined that the animal can serve as a valuable model species for research into the associated brain diseases, complementing research currently done on rodents. The paper was published in Scientific Reports. Translational model The zebrafish, also…

The idea that humans as a species may one day disappear from the face of the Earth has been captivating the minds of humanity since time immemorial. Ragnarök, Apocalypse of John, dragon that will eat the sun and plunge the world into an eternal eclipse, epidemics, industrial disasters — the…

By Anna Dzarakhokhova and Anastasia Pokrovskaya Let’s start with a standard question. Why did you enroll at MIPT? I enrolled at MIPT mainly because of my parents — they’re physicists, too. At some point, I did want to study architecture or art, but in the end, I chose to follow…

Current method of stem cell-derived tissue production is very inefficient. By semi-automating tissue differentiation, researchers from MIPT and Harvard have made the process nearly four times faster, retaining the same quality of the tissue. The new algorithm is also useful for analyzing the factors that affect cell specialization. Retina is…

On Nov. 3, Amazon published the selection results for the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4. The committee has selected nine finalists, including a team from the MIPT Neural Networks and Deep Learning Lab. Denis Kuznetsov, Dmitry Evseev, Anton Peganov, Alsu Sagirova, Dmitry Karpov, and Dilyara Baimurzina, the captain, —…

In spite of the pandemic, the 2020 international admissions campaign at MIPT has seen outstanding results. Applicants from all over the world have been selected to join one of the six MIPT schools, making up 15% of the overall student body. As always, MIPT has separate admissions campaigns for prospective…

MIPT researchers Leopold Lobkovsky and Raissa Mazova, and their young colleagues from Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University have created a model of landslide-induced tsunamis that accounts for the initial location of the landslide body. Reported in Landslides, the model reveals that tsunami height is affected by the coastal slope and…

Biotechnologists from MIPT have developed a method for extracting the active constituents from the fat of black soldier fly larvae. These compounds possess unique antimicrobial properties and can destroy bacteria that cause farm crop diseases and are resistant to antibiotics. The study was published in Microorganisms. Bacteria cause an essential…

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