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The Biomedical Research Center SAS (BMC SAS) voluntarily offered its professional and technical capacities and participated in routine SARS-CoV-2 testing right at the beginning of the pandemic. It was an unprecedented step at the time, which cost us a lot of effort, but it turned out to be the right one. Routine testing continues until…
Scientists from the Biomedical Research Center SAS were able to visualise the virus particles of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 isolated from Slovak patients with COVID-19 through the use of electron microscopy. Not only the scientific community but also the general public will have a unique view of the “Slovak” virus, which has been the centre…
The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences offered assistance with laboratory testing for SARS-CoV-2 already in March, immediately after the appearance of the first patients with COVID-19 disease in Slovakia. At that time, it received a government subsidy of EUR 280,000.00 to cover the costs connected with testing. Although the original calculation…
Special Issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) is focused on „Genome Maintenance and Cancer“. Editor of this Special Issue is Dr. Miroslav Chovanec, PhD., Scientific Director of the Cancer Research Institute, Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, expert in the field of cancer research with a focus on DNA…
Vanessa Drevenáková is young, clever, talented, but also incredibly passionate about science and research. She can study and talk about her passion, science, for hours. She is a student at the Milan Hodža Bilingual Grammar School in Sučany and her interest in the topic of cancer diseases brought her to the laboratories of the Biomedical…
Lecture by prof. Medalia from the University of Zurich, entitled “How can thin filaments protect a nucleus? The structure and function of lamins.” from the CAPSID Seminar Speaker Series, will take place on 25 June 2020 at 2 p.m. via online broadcasting via the ZOOM application. ANNOTATION: RESEARCH GROUP FOCUS / Structural Studies of Eukaryotic Cells and Organelles…
Lecture by Dr. Florian Schur from the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria, entitled “From Viruses to Cells. Toward high-resolution cellular structural biology using cryo-electron tomography” from the CAPSID Seminar Speaker Series, will take place on 28 May 2020 at 2 p.m. via online broadcasting via the ZOOM application. ANNOTATION: Structural plasticity and movement play fundamental roles…
The Biomedical Research Center of the SAS voluntarily joined the COVID-19 disease testing already in March 18 as the first external subject in close cooperation with the Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic. Currently, the virologists are testing 368 samples within the frame of the maximum daily capacity. In the coming days, this number…
A current pandemic of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causing the disease COUVID-19 have fully shown us how important is the correct diagnostic for controlling the spread of the infection. In an initial phase of the increase of the number of infected persons in Slovakia, the testing was continually limited by a global lack of the reagencies necessary…
Lecture by Prof. Peijun Zhang of the University of Oxford, entitled “Interrogating HIV-1 On A New Level” from the CAPSID Seminar Speaker Series, will take place on 7 May 2020 at 2 p.m. via online broadcasting via the ZOOM application. ANNOTATION: Cryo-electron microscopy is playing a key role in the understanding HIV-1 infection and development…