Articles - biotech and pharmacy

Ethics in science

22.2.2010   |   Articles - biotech and pharmacy

Institute of Philosophy of The Academy of Science CR organised on February 17 a seminar “Ethics of Science in the Czech Republic”. Such topic is very important particularly in bioscience. This was also reflected on the NEC Forum (13th Forum of National Ethics Councils Emerging Technologies in an Age of Globalisation, Prague, 4–5 June 2009)....

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Why bird flu has not caused a pandemic

15.1.2010   |   Articles - biotech and pharmacy

Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published November 19 in PLoS One. The authors of the new study, from Imperial College London, the University of Reading and the University of North Carolina, USA, argue that it is...

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Discussions are going

30.12.2009   |   Articles - biotech and pharmacy

This November was full of celebrations. It was the twenty-years´ anniversary of the end of communist regime in the Eastern and Central Europe. However, this November brings another less celebrated anniversary that we should remember – twenty years ago the “genetically modified organisms” were legally born and what is rather shameful - their...

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New technique for specifying location of sugar chains on glycoproteins

23.11.2009   |   Articles - biotech and pharmacy

Researchers have previously been able to analyse which sugar structures are to be found on certain proteins, but not exactly where on the protein they are positioned. This is now possible thanks to a new technique developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The technique entails preparing samples in a new way and...

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Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants

16.11.2009   |   Articles - biotech and pharmacy

As the nation copes with a shortage of vaccines for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers have raised hopes that they have found an Achilles' heel for all strains of the flu: antioxidants. In an article appearing in the November 2009 print issue of the FASEB Journal (The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental...

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How Salmonella Bacteria Cause Diarrhea In Their Host

3.11.2009   |   Articles - biotech and pharmacy

Salmonella bacteria are cunning when it comes to triggering diarrhoea in their host. Researchers from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich) have succeeded in explaining a molecular mechanism that enables the bacteria to activate their host cell’s non-specific immune response, thus making the host ill. A single virulence...

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Harvest of Events

21.10.2009   |   Articles - biotech and pharmacy

September and October bring in our country harvest of potato, sugar beet and many fruits. However, they are also rich on various conferences, symposia and similar meetings. As referred previously, September started this year with the Symposium on plant biotechnology in Szeged (September 1 -5) where the Czech participation was quite...

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Diabetes drugs don’t fight inflammation

5.10.2009   |   Articles - biotech and pharmacy

Two popular treatments lower blood sugar but may not prevent heart disease. Tightly controlling blood sugar in people with diabetes doesn’t relieve inflammation that can lead to heart disease, a new study shows. A study of 500 people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes shows that a drug called metformin - an oral anti-diabetic drug from...

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Czech scientists developed a new method for improving the functional characteristics of enzymes

2.10.2009   |   Articles - biotech and pharmacy

An international team of scientists from the Czech Republic, Germany and Japan have developed a new method for improving the properties of enzymes. The method has potential for wide application in the chemical, medicinal and food industries. The procedure has been published in the August issue of prestigious scientific magazine Nature Chemical...

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Full color vision given to monkeys

1.10.2009   |   Articles - biotech and pharmacy

Males with red-green colorblindness can distinguish the hues after gene therapy, study suggests. Two male squirrel monkeys now see the world in a whole new way — in full color. Female squirrel monkeys can see in color, but male squirrel monkeys are normally red-green colorblind because they lack pigments in the retina that detect those...

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