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Researchers contributed to dealing with drug-induced liver injury

How can physicists contribute to dealing with drug-induced liver injury? The answer to this question is, for example, by applying cutting-edge imagining techniques. Researchers from the Institute of Physic of the Czech Academy of Sciences have joined an international interdisciplinary research team which is conducting a research to generate new knowledge and approaches to dealing with drug-induced liver injury, aiming to create a liver model for timely detection of drug toxicity. A comprehensive interdisciplinary research summary of this subject was published in the prestigious Journal of Hepatology.

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Interval imagining of mitochondrial damage in liver cells, provided with a superresolution spinning disc microscope.

Odderon Discovered

At the beginning of March 2021, the TOTEM experiment from CERN’s LHC accelerator together with the D0 experiment from the former Tevatron accelerator at the Fermilab laboratory announced the discovery of the odderon – a special form of matter which is formed by states composed of (at least) three gluons and which was predicted already more than 50 years ago.

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Prototyp římských hrnců vyrobený ve VAKUUM Praha a dodán do CERN.

The Safety of Prague’s Public Transportation System is Confirmed by a Study Completed by the Czech Academy of Sciences

Recently, large-scale testing of Prague‘s public transportation system for signs of Covid-19 transmissibility was initiated by the Prague Public Transit Company (DPP). The extensive testing of the system, which was carried out in April 2021 by researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (AVČR), found no evidence of the infectious presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. 

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Nasávání pro biočip

A new World record for BIVOJ laser

The BIVOJ laser has broken its own performance record that it set in 2016. In a recent test, the system was operated for an hour at a pulse energy in excess of 145 J (with a maximum of 146.5 J) in 10 ns pulses at a repetition rate of 10 Hz at a wavelength of 1030 nm.

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Tým Vysokoenergetické deskové lasery, laserového centra HiLASE, vedený Ing. Martinem Divokým, Ph.D.

The Stars at the Centre of the Milky Way – or “Enigmatic Rejuvenation”

The “red giants” are an interesting type of huge and bright stars for astronomers. They are considered old even from the cosmic perspective as they have been evolving over a long period of time. Surprisingly, there is only a few of them in the region near the centre of our Galaxy, where an increased presence of younger stars has been revealed instead. A study, proposing a process to explain this anomaly, co-authored by the researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences, has been published by The Astrophysical Journal.

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Pohled do samotného nitra Mléčné dráhy vyžaduje použití záření o jiné vlnové délce, než jakou má viditelné světlo, jehož průchodu touto oblastí brání velké množství mezihvězdného prachu. Na fotografii pořízené v infračerveném oboru s pomocí dalekohledu VLT (Very Large Telescope) Evropské jižní observatoře je možné proniknout tímto prachovým prostředím téměř až do samotného centra, kde se ukrývá černá díra. Snímek zachycuje pole o rozměru pouhých 0,4 x 0,4 obloukové vteřiny. FOTO: ESO