When did the first COVID-19 case arise? Novel analysis suggests much earlier, more rapid spread than confirmed cases imply25. 6. 2021 Using methods from conservation science, a new analysis suggests that the first case of COVID-19 arose between early October and mid-November, 2019 in China, with the most likely date of origin...
BC International Advisory Board second meeting 24. 6. 2021 The International Advisory Board of the Biology Centre CAS, composed of 11 experts from various scientific disciplines from top universities and scientific institutions from all over Europe, meets...
Extraordinary results of Jiří Macas' team praised by GACR3. 6. 2021 The Czech Science Foundation (GACR) appreciated the extraordinary scientific results targeting plant centromeres, obtained by the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics under the leadership of Jiří...
World’s lakes losing oxygen rapidly as planet warms2. 6. 2021 Oxygen levels in the world’s temperate freshwater lakes are declining rapidly – faster than in the oceans— a trend driven largely by climate change that threatens freshwater biodiversity and...
We support Budejovice Barracudas Cricket Club31. 5. 2021 The Biology Centre is supporting the Budejovice Barracudas Cricket Club in the upcoming season. Most of Barracudas´ players are BC employees and university students.
Dramatic decline in languages and indigenous biological knowledge in Papua New Guinea, the world's most linguistically diverse nation27. 5. 2021 Around the world, more than 7,000 languages are spoken, most of them by small populations of speakers in the tropics. Papua New Guinea (PNG), where nine million people speak 850 languages, is the...
Rewilding a former military training area by large ungulates boosts local butterfly fauna14. 5. 2021 Return of large native herbivores to selected areas is increasingly advocated as a cost-efficient approach to managing natural biotopes that depend on disturbance-succession dynamics and are...
Biology Centre hosts two new MSCA fellows15. 4. 2021 Ahamed Khan and Mingxi Zhou are two postdoctoral researchers who succeeded with their project proposals in a competitive European call for MSCA Individual Fellowship. A total of 11,573 proposals...
Reactive signalling molecules help plants fight disease12. 4. 2021 Each cell produces during metabolic processes various by-products, including molecules possessing reactive oxygen (so called “reactive oxygen species”, ROS). Such a molecules react very readily...
Counting the cost of invasive species31. 3. 2021 Biological invasions — the introduction and spread of a species outside its native habitat — have resulted in at least US$1.288 trillion (2017 US dollars) in associated costs worldwide between 1970...