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banner-cs.jpg PUBLIC COLLECTION OF IMG AS CR, V. V. I. On August 6th, 2014, the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the AS CR, v. v. i., (IMG) opened a public collection aimed to help 14-year-old Katareeya Epp, who unfortunately died October 6th.

Her parents are employed in the IMG (project BIOCEV). Because Katareeya originates from a “third country”, namely, Australia, according to the Czech legislation she is not entitled to healthcare support from the public healthcare insurance.
The cost of intensive therapy during first two months have already exceeded the limits of private insurance in the amount of 1,6 million CZK. All the cost now repose only on the girl’s parents.
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Orkney voles repeal the path of the colonisers and the genetic ark

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4 Sep 2013

Early farmers had already brought the field vole to the Orkney Islands north of Scotland 5100 years ago by boat, most likely from the coast of today’s Belgium, and so maintained the genetic diversity that disappeared from Europe. These conclusions highlight research of an international team of scientists led by the University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom) and Cornell University (USA), which was published on Tuesday, 3 September 2013 in a major professional journal Molecular Ecology (see the abstract). Also researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the CR were involved in one of the most extensive studies of its type.

Cubisti Cubismo

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4 Jun 2013

The Director of the Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prof. Vojtěch Lahoda, was involved in the preparation of the international exhibition Cubisti Cubismo, which is open from 8 March to 23 June 2013 at the Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano in Rome. The curator, Charlotte N. Eyerman, an art historian from Los Angeles, planned it as a wide-ranging survey of Cubists and Cubism, from Picasso, through Russian artists, to figures from the USA (Max Weber) and Great Britain (Wyndham Lewis). She presented Cubism as a trend that eventually influenced all local schools, and emphasised the spread of Cubism into decorative art, architecture (Czech examples were at least shown in photographs and a model of Chochol’s house in Neklanova Street), and into film.

Art Historian Keith Holz in Prague

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4 Jun 2013

Keith Holz, Associate Professor of the Western Illinois University in Macomb, examines in his lecture held on 12 June 2013 at 3.30 p.m. in the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, Prague 1, room 117, newly available letters by and about Oskar Kokoschka from Moscow and Zürich archives. This lecture revises extant interpretations of his art and activities in Czechoslovakia (1934–1938). Kokoschka's public role as an outspoken advocate for human rights, his pursuit of democracy through educational reform (the Volkshochschule movement), and his role as a critic of fascist governments are related to his less understood, but elaborate, network of supporters, friends and family within and beyond the borders of the Republic.

 

The Academy of Sciences of the CR has joined the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

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3 Jun 2013

At the Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Francisco on 16 December 2012, a group of editors and publishers of scientific journals elaborated a collection of eighteen recommendations which should increase the quality of research assessment. Inter alia, they point out the fact that the Journal Impact Factor, which serves today as the primary parameter for the comparison of scientific outputs, was originally created as a tool to help librarians identify journals to purchase, not as a measure of the scientific quality of research in an article.

 

ELI European Project: Construction Begins

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24 May 2013

Other important steps necessary for the globally unique multifunction laser centre, ELI Beamlines, to be created in Dolní Břežany near Prague were taken by the Institute of Physics of the ASCR. On Friday, 24 May 2013, the winner of the competition for the contractors of the main phase of the building of the laser centre, the group of Metrostav, VCES and OHL ŽS, was presented at the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences of the CR in Prague. The new key partner of the project was also announced – the first-class American research centre, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. American specialists in cooperation with Czech colleagues will develop a unique laser system worth CZK 1.1 billion. For more information, see the press release.

L´Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science 2013

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24 May 2013

This year, the stipend program L´Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science, which already for the seventh year supports the work of gifted Czech female scientists, awarded seminal research projects from the areas of medicine and mathematics. Three-quarters of a million korunas were divided by Ing. Lubomíra Balková, Ph.D. (application of combinatorics in cryptology, practical use e.g. in the protection of credit cards), PharmDr. Martina Čečková, Ph.D. (medicinal transporters protecting the foetus from toxic substances) and MUDr. Eva Froňková, Ph.D. (early diagnosis of immunity defects). You can find detailed information in the press release.

An Exotic Conifer Helps Destroy Cancer Cells

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9 May 2013

A discovery by Czech molecular geneticists

Some scientists compare the search for an effective medicine against cancer, which would besides the successful elimination of cancer cells if possible not have any, or at least minimal, side effects for the organism, to the search for the Holy Grail. Unlike Indiana Jones, who in the film The Last Crusade actually found the Holy Grail, the scientific community had not had such luck as of yet. A distinct shift towards this dreamt-of goal could be the discovery by researchers from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Academy of Sciences of the ASCR, which was published recently in the online version of the international journal Apoptosis (see the abstract).

The gas explosion on Monday in Prague has severely affected the building of the Academy of Sciences

9 May 2013

The neo-Renaissance historical building of the Academy of Sciences of the CR was severely damaged on the morning of 29 April 2013 in connection with the gas explosion, which occurred in Divadelní Street on the ground floor of the building across from the side section of the Academy. A massive pressure wave shattered the window panes and damaged the interiors of not only the whole length of the building from the side of Divadelní Street but also broke the glass of the windows towards Krocinova Street, towards the courtyard and some towards Národní třída (National Avenue). The explosion inflicted the greatest damage, the amount of which is estimated at CZK 10 million, in the Library and Head Office of the Academy of Sciences.

L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science 2014

26 Apr 2013

We are pleased to inform you that, within the framework of the For Women in Science partnership between the L'Oréal Foundation and UNESCO, we are launching the 2014 call for nominations for outstanding women scientists from all over the world. Five $100,000 Prizes will be awarded in March 2014 in Paris to five women scientists, one per region, for the contributions of their research, the strength of their commitments and their impact on society. Since the beginning of the programme in 1998, L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science has honored 77 Laureates, including two who went on to win the Nobel Prize. For more information click here.

Manipulation of nanoscale magnetic films by light

22 Apr 2013

A discovery of Czech physicists published in Nature Photonics and Nature Communications
The preparation of high quality nano-scale films of ferromagnetic semiconductors is a formidable challenge. If successful it would inevitably provide unprecedented grounds for exploring new physical phenomena arising from the inteaction of photons with magnets and may suggest new means for the manipulation of magnets in opto-electronic devices at sub-picosecond time scales. The synthesis of prime quality films of ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As and the discovery of a relativistic effect allowing to manipulate spins in the nano-scale magnet by short laser pulses  was reported by scientists from the joint Laboratory of Opto-Spintronics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University and the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.