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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…
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….