Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
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An interview with molecular geneticist Jan Pačes about the rise of infectious diseases that were thought to be eradicated. Discusses the return of whooping cough and its possible causes, including the decline in vaccination and growing resistance to antibiotics.
10. 2. 2024
The interview with Václav Veverka and Jan Pačes focuses on the observation of “cellular highways” through the microscope. Thanks to cryo-electron microscopy, the scientists have gained a detailed view of the formation of microtubules, which is crucial for understanding their functioning.
12. 3. 2022
Interview of Olga Ryparova with Petr Svoboda about scientific ethics, falsification of results and ethics committees at scientific institutions.
16. 2. 2021
An interview with immunologist Václav Hořejší on why and how Covid-19 can attack the immune system of a still healthy young person.
3. 3. 2026
The ability to read genetic information is one of the great achievements of modern biology. A technology that can do this quickly, and even directly in the field, uses miniature pores through which the DNA or RNA strands being read pass from one side of a membrane to the other. The greatest expansion of DNA sequencing methods came at the end of the 20th century with the Human Genome Project, whose ambition was to read the complete human DNA—that is, every one of the approximately three billion DNA bases.
4. 3. 2024
If we examine the nature of life, we necessarily come to the problem of where the boundary between the living and the non-living lies. What is the simplest entity that we can reliably say is alive? How many genes does it need to survive? These and similar questions can best be answered by bioinformatic and molecular genetic methods, in which the main object of research is the genetic information written in DNA molecules.
31. 10. 2022
Already in 1903, the Russian biologist Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov (1872-1940) introduced the concept of the cytoskeleton, a “cellular skeleton” that is responsible for cellular shapes. But only now is it becoming clear how important for tissue integrity are the cytoskeletal crosslinker proteins aka cytolinkers. Mutations in the genes encoding these proteins frequently lead to the development of diseases associated with tissue fragility. Well-known examples are plectinopathies, multisystem disorders manifesting with skin blistering and muscular dystrophy.
3. 5. 2022
In the journal Science, an international team of scientists with Czech participation described a yet unknown process by which cancer cells try to resist the effects of radiotherapy, i.e. radiation. They found that one of the cells’ defence strategies is that they cause further DNA damage to themselves and pause their cycle before starting to divide. This gives them time to repair the more serious damage caused by radiotherapy.
Exposition Fascinating Genome …or how to light up a fish
Laboratory for Children CEITEC at Masaryk University, Petr Svoboda is the original co-author of the project and a member of the Board of Directors of Bioskop. IMG owns the registered trademark Bioskop and the domain bioskop.cz.
