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The tenth, jubilee year of the educational-popularization event called “Scientific Workshops – Oncology” was successfully organized in its annual term. During February and early March, organizers of the event, the Institute of Experimental Oncology of the Biomedical Research Center SAS and the Slovak Cancer Research Foundation, visited almost 40 high schools around Slovakia and 1…
Lecture by Dr. Arthur Sedive, a researcher at the Vienna BioCentre, entitled “From MST to TRIC – using and benchmarking the NanoTemper Monolith” from the CAPSID Seminar Speaker Series, will take place on 30 April 2020 at 2 p.m. via online broadcasting via the ZOOM application. The topic of the seminar will be not only…
The epidemic of the Covid-19 disease brings several challenges. These include the movement restriction which can have a far-reaching consequences, especially (but not only) for older people. The Centre for Physical Activity of the Biomedical Research Center of the SAS, which implements training programs for seniors and patients within the framework of its research, therefore…
In a special laboratory with the highest level 3 of biosecurity (BSL3), virologists from the Institute of Virology of the Biomedical Research Center of the SAS managed to isolate the first Slovak strains of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 on their cell cultures. “This success was achieved thanks to the close cooperation with the Public Health Authority….
At this time, scientists from the Slovak Academy of Sciences are intensely preparing to test the samples for the presence of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. For this special situation, the Institute of Virology of the Biomedical Research Center of the SAS offered to redirect part of its researchers and equipment, which is routinely used in research, in…
In reaction to the epidemiologic situation concerning a new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which changes dynamically and creates disinformation, we deliver the following opinion of researchers of the Institute of Virology of the Biomedical Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences as of February 28, 2020. FACTS RECOMMENDATIONS Photo: https://phil.cdc.gov/Translated by: SAS
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is one of the most common among childhood malignancies. Despite the severity of the disease, treatment of childhood leukemia is one of the major medical success stories of modern medicine. This once uniformly fatal disease is currently treatable in up to 90 % of cases. However, treatment is difficult for pediatric patients…
The latest issue of the prestigious journal Nature Medicine published the results of an international team, which also included researchers from the Kosice Institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, which are of great importance for the potential therapy of hitherto incurable neurodegenerative disease – amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The study was created at the University…
The complete disappearance of nodular goiter in children, a significant reduction in the incidence of goiter in all age groups, the disappearance of endemic cretinism, the improvement of children’s achievement in schools and an increase in the intellectual level of the nation. We owe all this to research and interest in endocrinology, but especially in…
Breast cancer research is the main area of interest of Jana Plava, a recent winner of “Student Personality of Slovakia Award for the academic year 2018/2019” in the category Medical Sciences and Pharmacy”. Jana Plava is a member of Svetlana Miklikova’s lab where she studies the tumor microenvironment and its role in cancer progression, metastasizing,…