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The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences have published research on the largest herpes virus in a prestigious scientific journal. The scientists explain the molecular mechanisms of the immune response triggered by human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). The paper was published in the…
The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS), in cooperation with regional public health authorities, has launched the second round of nationwide monitoring of mosquito-borne viruses, namely West Nile virus and Usutu virus in 36 Slovak localities, introducing several innovations. BMC SAS scientists have managed to improve the methods so that…
The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS) will host top experts working on a project dedicated to zoonotic infectious diseases from May 21 to 24, 2025. Slovakia is one of only two European countries involved in the international ZOE project where field research is being conducted. The trapping of rodents,…
The Institute of Virology of the Biomedical Research Center of the SAS (BMC SAS), the Institute of Zoology of the SAS, the Institute of Parasitology of the SAS, the Slovak Parasitological Society at the SAS, and Medirex organized the seventh edition of the international conference Labudove dni (Labuda Days). It was held from 16 to…
An innovative online coaching programme for people with obesity called 14weeks, created by Dr Jozef Ukropec and Professor Barbara Ukropcová from the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS), in cooperation with partners from the startup Zhiva and researchers from KInIT, attracted hundreds of candidates from all over Slovakia in the…
REACH project on ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas (PDAC), one of the deadliest forms of cancer, kicked off these months. The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, v. v. i. (BMC SAS) is one of the investigators of the project, which has received funding under the transnational call TRANSCAN 3 2023 “Translational…
In early June 2025, Bratislava became the venue of the 53rd International Scientific Conference of the European Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EEMGS), the leading scientific event in the field of genetic toxicology, environmental mutagenesis and genomics. The event took place from 2 to 5 June at the Park Inn Hotel and for the first…
An innovative approach to the analysis of complex biomolecules, which opens a new direction in the research of drugs that protect against sudden cardiac death, has been published these days by researchers from the Department of Cellular Cardiology of the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS), led by Alexandra Zahradnikova,…
Scientists from eleven countries discussed at the Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS) at a meeting within the framework of the international ZOE project on zoonotic infectious diseases. From 21 to 24 May, they reviewed the first sub-results, debated the challenges and also visited the Danube flood plains and the…
The Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAS), in cooperation with the State Institute for Drug Control (SIDC), has accepted a mandate from the Slovak Minister of Health, Kamil Šaško, to analyze selected retained batches of COVID-19 vaccines. The analysis will be conducted in close collaboration between SAS and SIDC. Both…