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MIPT Researchers Put Safety of Magic Anti-Cancer Bullet to Test
A group of MIPT researchers together with their colleagues from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Australia and the Netherlands have carried out the first systematic study analyzing the safety of so-called upconversion nanoparticles that may be used to treat skin cancer and other skin diseases. This study is one of the most important steps on the path to new, safe and effective methods to diagnose and treat cancer.
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The First Russian-German International Collaborative Research Centre launched in 2015
St. Petersburg University, Ioffe Physical and Technical University and the German Universities of Dortmund, Bochum and Paderborn have established the first Russian-German International Collaborative Research Centre. The project is aimed at the study of the properties of spins, minute magnetic moments that elementary quasi-particles spreading in semiconductor crystals possess. Study of the interactions, dynamics and lifetime of spins is a most important fundamental objective of modern quantum physics.
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The NICA project is one of the top mega-science projects in Russia
The session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of JINR Member States (18) was held on 25-26 March 2015 in Dubna with participation of representatives of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), as well as two of the six Associate Members of JINR who join the Institute on the basis of the Agreements signed on the governmental level - Germany and South Africa.
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is one of the priorities of the RF Ministry of Education and Science, - said in his speech at the session the representative of the Russian Government in JINR, Deputy RF Minister of Education and Science Alexander Povalko. - The Institute has a glorious history and, of course, excellent prospects. Our goal is to ensure all opportunities for implementation of tasks that the JINR Directorate and JINR scientists set.
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The rise of the Skolkovo Technopark
The Skolkovo Technopark is the facility that will host the 2016 International Association of Science Parks World Conference. The technopark is the central element of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, the 400-hectare technology hub west of Moscow that is to be home to 30,000 residents by 2020.
The technopark will provide the dry and web labs for all research and development activities of Skolkovo’s resident companies. The few hundred startups currently at Skolkovo are located in the Technopark Office Center along with the foundation management.The first phase of the technopark is to come online in December, opening up 95,000 square meters of space to residents and partners.
The first Tier-1center in Russia was opened in Dubna
The Tier-1center for the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider was presented on 26 March 2015 in Dubna in the Laboratory of Information Technologies of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. There are only 11 storage plants of that kind in the world; the12th center is being established in Russia on the basis of the NRC "Kurchatov Institute" and LIT, JINR.
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