A team of scientists and physicians from the Institute of Biotechnology of the CAS at the BIOCEV centre and the Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in Prague has demonstrated a positive effect of MitoTam on type 2 diabetes. The research was published today in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.
Study indicates ailing neurons may instigate an inflammatory response from the brain’s microglia immune cells.
Edward Gibson and Eric Martinez are among this year's winners of the satiric prize, for explaining what makes legal documents so difficult to comprehend.
At high pressure, chromium iodide crystals start to exhibit remarkable magnetic properties, losing their regular structure and moving into a chaotic, so-called spin-glass arrangement. Their physically exotic behaviour can be used, for example, to increase the capacity of operational memory. Scientists from the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University have found this out. Their study was recently published in the Physical Review B journal.
A simple animal model shows how stimuli and states such as smells, stressors, and satiety converge in an olfactory neuron to guide food-seeking behavior.
Refining current opacity models will be key to unearthing details of exoplanet properties — and signs of life — in data from the powerful new telescope.
A recent survey by University of Virginia Health found that 42.5% of women in the United States suffer from menstrual symptoms, requiring them to take multiple days off from work.
In a long-studied population of wandering albatrosses, females are less likely to stick with a shy mate.
When holding information in mind, neural activity is more focused when and where there are bursts of gamma frequency rhythms.
A computational analysis reveals that many repetitive sequences are shared across proteins and are similar in species from bacteria to humans.
The so-called hydropeaking, i.e. discontinuous flow changes in rivers, significantly disrupts fish reproduction. In the current study, scientists from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences focused on how hydropeaking affects the spawning asp shoal in the Želivka River. The local asp shoal, protected under the Natura 2000, faces unpredictable water current changes.
A commonly used screening test creates a gender gap that may hinder diagnosis and treatment for women and girls.
Most simulations of our climate’s future may be overly sensitive to Arctic ice melt as a cause of abrupt changes in ocean circulation, according to new research led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Despite their reputation as living fossils, scorpions have remained evolutionarily nimble — especially in developing venom to fend off the rise of mammal predators.
Compared to conventional manufacturing methods, additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) is far better at producing metal parts with very complex shapes, making 3D printing attractive for applications in aerospace and biomedical industries, among others.
The antiviral therapies remdesivir, molnupiravir, and the active ingredient in Pfizer’s Paxlovid pill (nirmatrelvir), remain effective in laboratory tests against the BA.2 variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Students are part of large team that achieved fusion ignition for the first time in a laboratory.
An international team of scientists led by Hana Hanzlíková from the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Keith Caldecott from the University of Sussex in the UK has discovered which sites in the DNA molecule inside cancer cells are the basis of the effect of anticancer drugs (called PARP inhibitors). The results, published recently in the prestigious Nature Structural and Molecular Biology journal, will be used to understand the mechanism of the effect of PARP inhibitors that lead to the death of certain types of cancer cells and open the path to new ways of treating tumors.
MIT neuroscientists have identified an oscillatory circuit that controls the rhythmic movement of mouse whiskers.
University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers have created a nanofiber material that outperforms its widely used counterparts — including steel plates and Kevlar fabric — in protecting against high-speed projectile impacts.