A new Lyme vaccine is 100% effective in tests27. 5. 2020 Researchers from the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Science say that a vaccine against Lyme disease has shown 100% effectiveness in tests. The results were published at the beginning of May...
We have increased our testing capacity by 50 percent11. 5. 2020 On Monday, May 11th, the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences has opened a new laboratory adapted for testing clinical samples for coronavirus. The current testing capacity of the...
Marine waste management: recycling efficiency by marine microbes8. 5. 2020 It was only relatively recently that tiny, single-celled thaumarchaea were discovered to exist and thrive in the pelagic ocean, where their population size of roughly 10^28 (10 billion quintillion)...
Cured from coronavirus, ready to help15. 4. 2020 Molecular parasitologist Zdeněk Paris successfully cured from Covid-19. He returns to work to help colleagues with testing the clinical samples on this disease.
What can the online world teach us about the natural world?10. 4. 2020 In today’s world, an increasing amount of our interactions with one another - as well as interactions with our environment - centres around the digital realm. These may be our posts on social...
Invasive species with charisma have it easier8. 4. 2020 It's the outside that counts: Their charisma has an impact on the introduction and image of alien species and can even hinder their control. An international research team, led by the Biology...
Scientists developed genetic tools for research of marine protists. The international 100-member team was led by Czech parasitologists.6. 4. 2020 The overlooked marine single-celled protists, which have a major impact on life on the planet, has now received greater scientific attention. One hundred and thirteen scientists from 53...
Documentary: The Hunt for a Better Gut Bacteria in Central Africa30. 3. 2020 Dr. Klara Petrzelkova from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology and the Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, participated in an expedition to Central Africa with the aim to understand the...
Lake Fish Telemetry Group: an international and multidisciplinary collaboration to push forward the field of fish ecology and behaviour5. 2. 2020 Lake Fish Telemetry Group (LFTG), an initiative that brings together research groups involved in lake fish telemetry in Europe to initiate joint multi-lake research activities using combined fish...
Unique centromeres discovered in the European dodder24. 1. 2020 Whenever the European dodder, Cuscuta europaea, is under scientific scrutiny, it usually is due to its non-functional chloroplasts and its concomitant parasitic lifestyle. Scientists from the Czech...
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