**Author details**

Ospan Mynbaev1,2, Ioannis Kosmas3 , Zhongjie Shi1,4\*, Sergei Firichenko1,5, Avinoam Tzabari1,2,6, Lin Ma1,7, Leila Kindarova8 , Tatiana Babenko1,9, Styliani Salta2,10, Antonio Malvasi1,2, Ivano Raimondo2,11, Andrea Tinelli1,12, Victor Gomel1,13 and Michael Stark1,2,14,15

1 The International Bureau of Human Body Design, Biomodeling, and Biosensoring, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Moscow, Russia

2 The New European Surgical Academy, Berlin, Germany

3 Ioannina University, Ioannina, Greece

4 Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

5 Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Moscow, Russia

6 Emergency Obstetrics and Gynecologic Unit, Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center, Bnei Brak, Israel

7 Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, USA

8 Russian-German Center of Reproduction and Clinical Embryology "Generation NEXT", Moscow, Russia

9 City Clinical Hospital for Emergency Medical Services N4, Stavropol Krai, Russia

10 Haemophilia Centre, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, UK

11 Gynecologic and Obstetric Clinic, Sassari University, Sassari, Italy

12 Division of Experimental Endoscopic Surgery, Imaging, Technology and Minimally Invasive Therapy, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vito Fazzi Hospital, Lecce, Italy

13 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

14 Department of Gynecological Oncology, Berlin Humboldt University Hospital Charite, Berlin, Germany

15 The ELSAN Group, Paris, France

\*Address all correspondence to: zshi@med.wayne.edu

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