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On July 10–11, 2025, Moscow hosted the 10th Hope for Technology National Forum of the Rehabilitation Industry and Universal Design. The event was aimed at discussing innovative achievements in the rehabilitation industry. The MIEM Student Design Bureau and the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience presented a smart orthosis, which was developed at the request of orthopedists.

Researchers from the AI and Digital Science Institute, HSE Faculty of Computer Science, have proposed a new approach based on advanced machine learning techniques to determine a person’s genetic origin with high accuracy. This method uses graph neural networks, which make it possible to distinguish even very closely related populations.

In early July, two conferences were held in which leading research fellow of the ILSIR Nikita Bolshakov took part: the 13th Conference of the European Association of Disability Researchers, dedicated this year to social transformations (13th ALTER Conference: Transformations, July 8-10, Innsbruck, Austria) and the 10th International Conference on Ethnography and Qualitative Research (10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference, July 10-12, Trento, Italy).

In the framework of world science structure mapping the HSE University Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) for the first time has identified the most relevant for Russia research and development topics using a system of intelligent analysis of big data iFORA.

In July, a team from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study, Preservation, and Development of Native Languages of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), conducted the first-ever neurolinguistic expedition to the village of Churapcha to study reading in the Yakut language using electroencephalography (EEG). For the first time, EEG data from 43 adults and behavioural data from 40 children was collected during the two-week expedition.

An international team of researchers including scientists from HSE University has experimentally demonstrated that individuals with bipolar disorder tend to perceive the world as more volatile than it actually is, which often leads them to make irrational decisions. The scientists suggest that their findings could lead to the development of more accurate methods for diagnosing and treating bipolar disorder in the future. The article has been published in Translational Psychiatry.

The staff of the Center made presentations, sharing the latest achievements in the field of neurotechnology and neuroimaging. The annual conference "Neurocampus Baikal 2025" was held on the shore of Lake Baikal from 06/29/25 - 07/04/25.

Knockdown of CD44 in colorectal cancer tumours alters the expression of microRNAs and their targets involved in epithelial–mesenchymal transition and the Notch signalling pathway, both of which are associated with tumour metastasis

In the journal Manuscrito (Brazil) and in the journal Humanitarian Studies in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, articles by the research intern of LL LLFP, Viktoriia Denisova, have been published.