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Czech-Japanese cooperation – a new way of treating achondroplasia

Prevent activation of the cellular receptor, which slows growth and causes achondroplasia. A groundbreaking method of treating genetic disorders of growth has been described by scientists from the International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno (FNUSA-ICRC) and Masaryk University in Brno, together with Japanese colleagues. The key substance in this case is […]

Obesity as a trigger of neurodegenerative diseases?

RNDr. Jan Fröhlich, Ph.D. and Dr. Manlio Vinciguerra of the Epigenetics, Metabolism and Aging FNUSA-ICRC Research team, in collaboration with a research institute at the Medical University in Varna, published a successful review summarizing current knowledge on the effect of adipomyokines / metabotrophic factors on the development and progression of cardiometabolic (CMD) and neurodegenerative diseases. […]

2nd Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design Course

The Hands-on Computational Enzyme Design Course is a highly practical and interactive course meant primarily for protein and metabolic engineers with no prior experience in computer modelling and bioinformatics. Other experts willing to broaden their current computational protein design toolbox can also benefit from this course. A team of experts and software developers provide training […]