🔬 Scientists have developed a new fluorine-based tracer that can be tracked using MRI to monitor how quickly food moves through the gastrointestinal tract.
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🧪 Protons play a central role in many chemical reactions in living organisms. In some cases, a proton may be shared between two nearby molecular groups rather than being localized on just one...
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🪙 How does tyrosinase convert phenols into quinones? Though this binculear copper enzyme has been studied for decades, latter stages in its catalytic cycle remained elusive...
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👥 Members of the International Advisory Board visited IOCB Prague from September 9 to 11. During their visit, they took part in selecting a new junior research group leader and evaluated the work of several existing research groups.
#UOCHB #IOCB #IOCBPrague
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⚙️ Around 50 researchers from around the world gathered at Liblice Castle near Prague from 6 to 9 September for the international Mach-5 conference!
#UOCHB #IOCB #IOCBPrague #czechscience #chemistry #biochemistry #mach5 #molecularmachines #praguelectures
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🧬 A study in Nature sheds new light on #DNArepair in early human embryos, with implications for future gene correction.
See more ► uochb.cz/en/news/821 📲
#IOCB #IOCBPrague @Columbia
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🪳 In eusocial insects, queen pheromones help maintain reproductive order within the colony. But where and how these chemical signals are produced can remain difficult to pin down...
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🧫 Hormones such as insulin and insulin-like growth factors do far more than regulate blood sugar.
Through closely related receptors, they help coordinate metabolism, growth, development, neuronal survival, and repair... 🧵
#IOCB #IOCBPrague #insulin #IGF1 #neuroprotection #metabolism
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🦠 Getting a molecule into a cell is only part of the challenge.
For imaging & therapy, it can be just as important to control where inside the cell the molecule goes – and ideally also when it becomes active...
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🧪 Do Projektové kanceláře hledáme systematickou, proaktivní a komunikativní kolegyni.
Více na ► uochb.cz/cs/volna-mista/434/… 📲
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🤝 @IOCBPrague a @1LFUK1 podepsaly 5. srpna 2026 memorandum o dalším rozvoji spolupráce...
#UOCHB #IOCB #IOCBPrague #AVCR #AkademievedCR #ceskaveda #chemie #biochemie #popularizace
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🎨 Zeď areálu ÚOCHB ozdobí nový murál připomínající Antonína Holého.
Jeho autorkou bude ilustrátorka Sasha Chagina, jejíž návrh porota vybrala z patnácti soutěžních projektů...
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🗣️ We are looking forward to hosting Prof. Véronique Gouverneur @GouverneurGroup (@UniofOxford, UK) with an invited lecture "Fluorochemicals – The future we want" on 29 September.
Learn more at ► uochb.cz/en/event-calendar/3… ⤵
#praguelectures #iocb #iocbprague
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Václav Verner from #IOCBPrague recently appeared as a guest on a podcast hosted by @msmtcr.
A gold medalist at #IChO, he spoke with Minister @RobertPlaga about the importance of supporting academic competitions and encouraging young students to pursue their talents!
#outreach #chemistry #education
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🧫 The Vondrášek Group is seeking a postdoctoral researcher fully focused on artificial intelligence in the life sciences.
#openposition #iocbprague #iocb #compchem
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💎 Researchers from IOCB Prague, Jakub Kaminský, Adam Jaroš, and Michal Straka (Bouř and Rulíšek Groups), have revisited the structure of Th@C84, a fullerene with a thorium atom trapped inside its carbon cage.
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🏅 The 58th #InternationalChemistryOlympiad #IChO is taking place through Sunday, with representatives affiliated with #IOCBPrague participating.
Václav Verner (right, @konvalinka_jan Group) and Tatiana Nemirovich (left, Pavel Jungwirth Group) from #IOCB are serving as mentors for the Czech team.
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🗣️ We are looking forward to hosting Prof. Phil L. Baran (@BaranLabReads of Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA) with an invited lecture "Simplifying synthesis with radical cross-coupling" next week.
Learn more at ► uochb.cz/en/event-calendar/3… ⤵
#praguelectures #iocb #iocbprague
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👏 Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Lehn presented @France_CZ Embassy Scientific Prizes to, among others, two researchers associated with IOCB Prague. He later visited the institute, where he met with early-career researchers.
#UOCHB #IOCB #IOCBPrague #AVCR #AkademievedCR #ceskaveda #czechscience
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🗣️ We are looking forward to hosting Prof. Phil L. Baran (@BaranLabReads of Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA) with an invited lecture "Simplifying synthesis with radical cross-coupling".
Learn more at ► uochb.cz/en/event-calendar/3… ⤵
#praguelectures #iocb #iocbprague
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