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5 Aug 2022

Tumours teach us how to live well and survive, says microbiologist Šmardová

Cancer arises from cells that violate the basic rules of coexistence and cooperation. Altogether, there are eleven typical characteristics that distinguish tumours from healthy tissues. Molecular biologist Jana Šmardová believes that these features reflect more general principles that underlie the proper...

4 Aug 2022

I'm not a lab person, but I want to change legislation as a scientist

Natálie Šelleová is a second-year bachelor's student in Environment and Health. Although she does not want to work in a lab in the future, human health and environmental issues are her top-of-mind priorities. After her studies, she desires to be a person explaining complex scientific issues to the public...

3 Aug 2022

Dry streams

According to experts from the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, extreme drought is prevailing in several domestic regions. The situation is worst in the south-eastern part of Moravia, where many streams have already dried up. The new Dry Rivers app is designed to monitor the water levels in these...

27 Jul 2022

We celebrated a thousand followers, blew up a kilo of gunpowder, smiles award-winning chemistry teacher

Radek Matuška, a graduate of our faculty, is a chemistry teacher at the Secondary Industrial School of Chemistry in Brno. A few years ago, he was voted the best chemist in the Golden Amos survey, and now he has received an award from the Learned Society of the Czech Republic. In his classes, he is not...

22 Jul 2022

Gold medals of MU awarded to founders of Mendel Lectures

Geneticist and biochemistry professor Kim Nasmyth and his wife Anna, who are currently attending the Mendel Genetics Conference, will be bringing home to Oxford one of the most prestigious recognitions of Masaryk University.

21 Jul 2022

Thanks to Mendel, Brno is a Mecca for geneticists

A visit to the Augustinian Abbey in Old Brno, where Johan Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, lived and worked, is the same as visiting Mecca for world-renowned scientists in the field of genetics and related fields. Nobel Prize laureates and other scientists who came to Brno for the major international...

20 Jul 2022

G. J. Mendel: generous, charitable, selfless

Mendel loved his family very much and was grateful to them. His warm emotional relationship with his family, and especially his mother, can be seen in the surviving letters he wrote home from Brno or Vienna. He addresses his parents as ‘Dearest Parents’ or ‘Beloved Parents’, and his mother and sister...

13 Jul 2022

Michal Zajaček: the level of images from the Webb telescope has exceeded expectations. New ones may be coming out every week

The Webb Telescope provided a glimpse into the history of the universe like never before. After the first full-color image of a galaxy-filled galaxy in unprecedented sharp resolution, which NASA unveiled on Tuesday after midnight our time, the office released a set of four more photos. Michal Zajaček,...

12 Jul 2022

Astrophysicists discover record-breaking star

The record-breaking star at the centre of the Galaxy has been discovered by scientists from Masaryk University, the University of Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. (The M Magazine article available only in Czech.)

4 Jul 2022

Silkworm at the Faculty of Science

Scientists from the Department of Experimental Biology of the MU Faculty of Science have the largest silkworm breeding in the country. For now, it is mainly used for teaching students, but in the future it could help in finding cures for serious diseases. Watch the Ceska televize report and find out...

4 Jul 2022

Deans of science faculties discuss the lack of teachers

At a recent meeting in Pilsen, the Deans of the various science faculties discussed the lack of science teachers, which is starting to cause significant problems in Czech primary and secondary education and is likely to lead to staff shortages in key professions.

30 Jun 2022

The European Space Agency has given green light for preparations for a Czech space telescope

Recently, astrophysicists from Masaryk University’s (MU) Faculty of Science began a detailed study for the construction of the first Czech space telescope, which will be optimised for the ultraviolet part of the spectrum.