Second generation antibody protects from SARS-CoV-2, its variant and prevents it from mutating to resist therapy26. 1. 2021 Czech researchers tested a second-generation "double antibody" that protects from SARS-CoV-2 and all its tested variants very effectively. It also prevents the virus from mutating to resist the...
Healthier beer? For the first time, scientists have modified hop with modern CRISPR technology14. 1. 2021 More medical substances and bitter acids in hop – that is the aim, the scientists from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BC CAS) would like to achieve. They reported the first...
Traditional New Year's lecture of Professor Erik DeClercq5. 1. 2021 Biology Centre CAS and University of South Bohemia are inviting you cordially to attend a lecture given by Professor Erik De Clercq, D.M., Ph.D. Rega Institute, Catholic University, Leuven,...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year22. 12. 2020 Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences wishes you Merry Christmas and in the new year 2021 we wish you good health, happiness, success and a lot of inspiration in both professional and...
Podcast: Look Up! Arboreal Tropical Ant Habitats with Petr Klimes22. 12. 2020 They’re everywhere, even the trees. Petr Klimes researches the ecological roles of insects, especially ants in Papa New Guinea, where many species are less accessible for research. He shares...
A new trademark „Proven in the tropics“ registered 17. 12. 2020 In December 2020, a new trademark of the Biology Centre CAS was entered into the trademark register – PROVEN IN THE TROPICS. The trademark will be granted to technologies and products that will...
Inaugural meeting of the Czech Society for Stable Isotopes10. 12. 2020 The inaugural meeting of the Czech Society for Stable Isotopes, organized by the Biology Centre of the CAS and the Faculty of Science of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, takes...
World Soil Day: Keep soil alive, Protect soil biodiversity5. 12. 2020 The theme of the United Nations World Soil Day on 5th December 2020 is "Keep soil alive, Protect soil biodiversity". Soil scientists of the Biology Centre CAS are joining this year's appeal of the...
Emerging digital tools for marine and freshwater conservation29. 10. 2020 The digital revolution in the age of big data is creating new research opportunities. Approaches such as culturomics and iEcology promise to provide huge benefits and novel sources of information...
A new version of RepeatExplorer pipeline introduced in Nature Protocols24. 10. 2020 RepeatExplorer is a computational pipeline designed to identify and quantify repetitive sequences in eukaryotic genomes. The pipeline was developed by scientists from the Laboratory of Molecular...
