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Genetic blueprint of bread wheat genome unveiled

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17 Jul 2014

Last step before full genome sequence
The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) published today in the international journal Science a draft sequence of the bread wheat genome. The chromosome-based draft provides new insight into the structure, organization, and evolution of the large, complex genome of the world’s most widely grown cereal crop. The genetic blueprint of the wheat genome was obtained using the chromosome-based strategy developed by research team of Jaroslav Doležel, Professor at the Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR.

Institute of Rock Mechanics and Structure ASCR has become a Worldwide Centre of Excellence

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14 Jul 2014

The scientific teams of the Academy of Sciences of the CR and Charles University have received significant awards for their results so far in long-term joint research of landslides. The Institute of Rock Mechanics and Structure (ÚSMH) of the ASCR, v. v. i, along with the Faculty of Science of CU obtained the title of a Worldwide Centre of Excellence for Research of the Risks of Landslides in Beijing in June of this year.

The zebrafish as an aide in modern haematology

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11 Jul 2014

A current trend of modern biomedical research is the attempt to minimalize experiments on animals like mice or chickens and where it is possible to replace them with developmentally simpler model organisms, but it is a necessary precondition that some basic cellular and physiological processes are evolutionarily conserved with these organisms, by which the similarity with the processes taking place in more complex organisms is preserved. One such biological model is the aquarium fish, the zebrafish, named for its zebra-like stripes.

Ultraviolet light enables to find white-nose syndrome in bats

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4 Jun 2014

Scientists working to understand the devastating bat disease known as white-nose syndrome (WNS) now have a new, non-lethal tool to identify bats with WNS lesions —ultraviolet, or UV, light. If long-wave UV light is directed at the wings of bats with white-nose syndrome, it produces a distinctive orange-yellow fluorescence. This orange-yellow glow corresponds directly with microscopic skin lesions that are the current “gold standard” for diagnosing white-nose syndrome in bats.

The Protest Movements in the Contemporary Middle East

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2 Jun 2014

On May 29-30, a conference entitled "The Protest Movements in the Contemporary Middle East" took place at the Academy of Sciences. The conference was organized under the auspices of Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, and Centre français de recherche en sciences sociales (CEFRES) in Prague, with the kind support of Groupe de Recherches et d'Etudes sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient (GREMMO, Lyon) and Cercle des Chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient (CCMO).

Prof. Noam Chomsky appeared at the Academy of Sciences of the CR

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2 Jun 2014

One of the most important scientists of today, Professor Avram Noam Chomsky from Massachusetts Institute of Technology appeared on Monday, 2 June 2014 at the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of the CR with a lecture “What Can We Understand?” On this occasion, he received from the hands of the President of the ASCR Prof. Jiří Drahoš the honorary medal “De scientia et humanitate optime meritis”. Over the next few days, Prof. Chomsky will attend a linguistics conference organized by the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University in Olomouc and a public debate on current social trends in the Metropol Cinema in Olomouc.

Quantifying the impacts of alien species: towards an IUCN Black List

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12 May 2014

One of the major transformations of the planet from human activities is the wholesale redistribution of species, through the deliberate or accidental translocation of their populations to areas outside their native range. These “alien” species have in many cases caused substantial deleterious impacts to the recipient environment (e.g. extinctions of native populations and species, the disruption of soil nutrient and water cycling, and natural disturbance regimes). Preventing and mitigating such impacts is a major drain on limited conservation resources.

The FUNBIO project – studying materials on the boundary of life

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7 May 2014

Institute of Physics, ASCR, v. v. i. (FZU) has begun implementation of the Center of functional materials for bio-applications (FUNBIO). This project is supported within 11th call of the OPPK (Operační program Praha – Konkurenceschopnost; Operational Programme Prague Competitiveness) structural funds of the European Commission, which significantly complements the current project Centrefor Analysis of FunctionalMaterials (SAFMAT).

New findings on acute myeloid leukemia from the Institute of Molecular Genetics AS CR

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5 May 2014

Scientists from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Academy of Sciences in Czech Republic (IMG), in collaboration with several leading centers in the USA and the Netherlands, clarify the mechanism of transformation in one subtype of leukemia. Importantly, they identify substances that in a future might help to develop more effective treatments for this disease. The results of this study were published in the international journal Haematologica.

Physics helps economy: a new monograph on Econophysics from the Institute of Physics, AS CR

12 Mar 2014

Importance and impact of methods and techniques developed for studying physical problems has outreached the realm of natural sciences. Methods of quantum physics and statistical mechanics find more and more applications in biology, economy, informatics, or sociology. Physics has become one of the most important components of a number of new interdisciplinary research fields. Econophysics utilises methods of statistical mechanics and theory of phase transitions to model and understand processes in economy and financial markets.