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More than ten million sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus had to be examined by an international team of scientists to find universal weaknesses of coronaviruses that do not change even with frequent mutations and the emergence of new variants. Analysis of patient samples then revealed rare antibodies that block all previously known SARS-CoV-2 variants, as… Read more

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The Czech Academy of Sciences celebrates 70 years. Genetically modified mouse models help reveal the causes of human diseases, explains scientist Radislav Sedláček. Just turn off a gene in a mouse and you will learn which gene could be responsible for one of the diseases in humans. In the next part of our series on… Read more

“Gene Age” is an accompanying travelling lecture series of the AV21 Strategy research programme “Towards precision medicine and gene therapy” In December 2022, the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics (CCP) at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences organized a traveling series of lectures “The Gene Age” on the topic of gene… Read more

We would like to inform you about a new range of transnational access calls recently launched under the ISIDORe project. These are free-of-charge open calls on specific pathogens and related-services accessible to researchers in the EU and abroad. Details about the open calls are available at ISIDORe website. Find out more about how INFRAFRONTIER contributes… Read more

Global and European Infrastructures IMPC and INFRAFRONTIER Towards the Deciphering of Gene Functions for Human Health 18 October 2022, 13:00 – 15:00  Hybrid event (Brno, Czech Republic + Zoom) European and world-wide research infrastructures such as IMPC and INFRAFRONTIER will provide comprehensive resources to unravel gene function in physiology and disease. These infrastructures are used… Read more

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 was awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. More information here. Svante Pääbo from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, uses research services of the Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, and was a keynote speaker at… Read more

On the occasion of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU, on September 12, 2022, diplomats from the EU member states at the Council of the EU visited the BIOCEV center. This visit followed the excursion of the informal EU Council of Research Ministers, which took place on 21 July 2022.The aim was… Read more

A new issue of the CCP e-newsletter has been released. Highlights of the Issue: CCP Phenogenomics Conference on Rare Diseases: Experimental Models & Delivery of Therapies Towards precision medicine and gene therapy – AV21 Strategy Programme of the Czech Academy of Sciences coordinated by the Institute of Molecular Genetics ICRI 2022 satellite event: Global and… Read more

We would like to inform our users that CCP now offers automated single cell functional proteomics analysis on the Isoplexis platform enabling for single cell functional immunophenotyping or phospho-protein analysis. If you want to know more about the device and services available in CCP for your research please check the details at our immunology unit… Read more