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Current AffairsCzechs make breakthrough discovery in bacteria DNA
Czech scientists have made a breakthrough discovery, one that research
teams all over the world have been striving for for years. Scientists from
the University of South Bohemia have detected the structure of an enzyme
that can change the DNA in bacteria. The discovery should in time prevent
bacteria from being resistant to antibiotics. Ruth Fraňková spoke to
Ruediger Ettrich, the head of the Centre of protein structure and function
and one of the people behind the discovery: More
Current AffairsA discovery that could make malaria easier to treat
Czech scientists and their Australian colleagues recently made a unique
discovery which should contribute to the development of medication against
malaria, making it easier to produce, safer and cheaper. The results of
their study were recently published in the prestigious Nature magazine.
Ruth Fraňková spoke to a member of the Czech team, Jan Janouškovec, to
find out what kind of progress has been made.
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Czechs in HistoryJan Evangelista Purkyne - a groundbreaking scientist who played a major role in the Czech national revival
The nineteenth-century Czech physician and natural scientist Jan
Evangelista Purkyne is perhaps best known to people today for identifying
the unique nature of individual fingerprints, a discovery which has played
a vital role in countless criminal investigations. Nevertheless, this is
just one of many discoveries by Purkyne, who was responsible for a number
of epoch-making contributions to different scientific disciplines. He was
also a key figure in the Czech national revival.
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Czech ScienceCzech scientific institute signs landmark agreement with US pharmaceutical company
Czech science - and one scientist in particular - received a great honour
last week, when the United States pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences
announced a donation to the Institute of Organic Chemistry and
Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the establishment of a
special research centre bearing the company's name. The California-based
biopharmaceutical company will donate 1.1 million dollars a year to the
institute for an initial five-year term to fund the centre's operations
and ongoing research activities. A part of the amount will be used to
finance the research of the renowned Czech scientist, Professor Antonin
Holy, for whom the company has established the Gilead Distinguished Chair
in Medicinal Chemistry.
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Czech ScienceConference on "intelligent design" meets with little interest among Czech scientists
Is life on Earth a product of "blind evolution" or is the world
as we know it the work of an omnipotent creator? Hundreds of supporters of
the theory of "intelligent design" gathered in Prague at the
weekend to discuss, as they said "errors in Charles Darwin's theory
of evolution and alternatives to it".
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Czech ScienceCzech scientists help treat AIDS in poor countries
A new anti-HIV drug has recently been approved in the United States. One of
its two components was developed by Czech scientists, who - as well as the
other inventors - have agreed to give up their royalty rights on sales in
parts of the world where HIV/AIDS has hit hardest.
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Talking PointIs Czech science affected by brain drain?
Last week was European Week of Science and Technology. The Czech Republic
joined it with a number of events and discussions showing the highlights,
but also unveiling the challenges the Czech scientific community is
facing. What are the biggest problems Czech science is confronting?
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