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Highlights of the Issue: Programme of the 5th CCP Phenogenomics Conference; Engineered Allele Validation Workshop; Towards new therapy: New project on prenatal treatment of achondroplasia funded by the Czech Ministry of Health; Open access to CCP services under transnational calls. Full version of the e-Newsletter Read more

Explore the varied programme on the conference website. Two days of excellent talks. The participation in the scientific part of the conference is free of charge for all academic participants. Register and submit your abstract by 20th August 2023. Read more

The European Commission has replied to the European Citizen Initiative. HERE you have the whole document to download, but briefly these are the main conclusions:  The Commission outlines the following actions to further reduce animal testing in response to specific objectives of the European citizens’ initiative: EARA has also published an article welcoming the response: https://www.eara.eu/post/eara-welcomes-the-rejection-of-eu-reduction-targets-for-animal-research-by-commission Read more

Experts from the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics participated in the annual IMPC Conference held on 9 – 12 July in Oxford with the following poster presentations: The report from the conference is available on the IMPC website. Copyright: IMPC Read more

Hundreds of people interested in biology visited the stand of the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics at the Science Fair 2023. Big thanks to all the volunteers from the CCP team. Read more

It is our great honour to invite you cordially to the 5th CCP Phenogenomics Conference, which will be held on 14 – 15 September 2023 in Prague & online. Similarly, to the last year, the conference is devoted to the topic of rare diseases & their therapies this year, with special focus on experimental models… Read more

As the most common research mammal in the world, mice are key to many aspects of biomedical research and, in turn, scientific and medical advancements. Without mice, we would lack a crucial understanding of major diseases, including cancer and genetic disorders like muscular dystrophy, which has led to lasting benefits for humans and animals alike.… Read more

The Czech Centre for Phenogenomics organized a theoretical and practical seminar “Phenotyping technologies for working with mouse models” for first year students of the Faculty of Science of Charles University in April 2023. The students of the subject “Molecular and General Biology” met Jan Prochazka from Phenotyping Module, who gave a lecture on phenotyping of… Read more

Highlights of the Issue: The new state-of-the-art BSL-3 laboratory at the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics CCP preclinical services in a nutshell Focus on rare diseases: the Alliance for Rare Disease Research and Therapy is launched Open access to CCP services under transnational calls Full version of the e-Newsletter Read more

The researchers from the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics contributed to a new book “Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine – Sex and Gender-Specific Biology in the Postgenomic Era” (4th Edition – April 17, 2023, Elsevier) with a chapter “CRISPR Technology and Its Role in Treating Rare Imprinting Diseases”. Read more