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the international research team, which includes St. Petersburg and British scientists have developed a robot that can control the growth of neurons from stem cells.

As the press service of the ITMO University, the research group included graduate student of the University Pavel Katunin. He and his British colleagues had wondered how with the help of signal cells to turn stem cells into any other.

Techniques for such manipulations exist, but the problem is that only a small proportion of cells converted to the desired, and the process takes a long time. Besides for the cups, which are cells needed constant supervision.

to Make the laboratory for several months following cells in the laboratory, it is practically impossible, the same result is not guaranteed. Then the scientists decided to call for the help of robots.

the Researchers printed on a 3D printer robot assistant, which can automatically conduct experiments, to collect and automate big data. It is expected that in the future, the robotic laboratory will help scientists to track the early stages of transformation of cells and to select for the experiment suitable.