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The November scientific café in Košice with the climate change topic was a jubilee one. The topic, which currently resonates in society and is highly topical, revealed a view of climate change from a pragmatic engineering perspective. Ing. František Simančík, PhD. from the Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics SAS in Bratislava and a member of…
Partners from institutions of the Alliance4Life (A4L) consortium, from CEITEC MU Brno and FNUSA-ICRC, visited Biomedical Research Center SAS (BMC SAS) on 4 December and 5 December 2019, with the aim to introduce the process and the methodology of implementation and operation of the „core facilities“ concept (CF) which have already been introduced or are…
As a part of the Science and Technology Week in Slovakia, an expert meeting entitled, National Round Table on Science Policy, Together for Improving the Conditions and Quality of Science and Research in Slovakia, took place on 6 November 2019, at the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information. The event was organized by the…
This workshop will provide a basic introduction into recombinant protein production in eukaryotic expression systems, protein purification, including protein complexes, secreted proteins and viruses and will also discuss important aspects of protein quality assessment. The workshop is intended for Masters’ and PhD students, postdocs and other researchers in the Vienna-Bratislava cross-border region. Speakers: Antonio Sponga,…
Serendipity. One of the ten most difficult words to translate, was explained by prof. Silvia Pastoreková, the director of Biomedical Research Center SAS (BMC SAS), at the beginning of the BMC SAS Open day. This word means scientific happiness, but is it just a coincidence or a deeper discovery that supports our subconsciousness? Scientists are…
The team of the Department of Tumour Biology of the Institute of Virology of the Biomedical Center (BMU SAS) enthusiastically accepted the Nobel Prize laureates for physiology and medicine. It was acquired by Gregg L. Semenza of John Hopkins University (USA), Peter J. Ratcliffe of Oxford University (UK) and William G. Kaelin, Jr. of Harvard…
On 4th October 2019 the founding members of the Alliance4Life gathered at Vilnius University and signed the Memorandum of Understanding, which formalizes the alliance as a permanent structure. The Alliance4Life connects progressive life science institutions from Central and Eastern Europe. The mission of the Alliance4Life shall be to support and strengthen European research excellence and…
In our booth at the Primate’s Square in Bratislava during the 2nd year of the popularizing event entitled “Weekend with SAS”, held on 21 and 22 June 2019, it cracked in the seams. The seniors were interested in measuring fat on Friday, and the children were building a DNA model from gelatin sweets the other…
On June 15 – 19, 2019, the 12th International Symposium on Catecholamines and Other Neurotransmitters in Stress took place in Smolenice, organized by the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology, Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. This important event takes place every four years and its tradition dates back to 1975. The symposium is…
The Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis (LIOS) hosted the Alliance4Life community in Jūrmala, Latvia from 10-12th June 2019. The beautiful venue was surrounded by a forest on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and the panoramic view of the sea from the top-floor meeting room where plenary sessions took place was amazing. This exceptional environment,…