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6 Nov

October 2025 in Science at MED MUNI

We bring you a selection of the most interesting events in science and research in October 2025.

6 Nov

ORCID - novinky na MU

3 Nov

Pozvánka na Open Science Week 2025

19 Sep

Carfilzomib more effective and safer: new possibilities in myeloma treatment

An international team of scientists from Lenka Bešše's laboratory at the Department of Biology and colleagues from German and Swiss institutions have published joint research results on the effects of proteasome inhibition in multiple myeloma. These results offer new possibilities for using already approved and clinically available drugs.

11 Sep

Interview: Leandro Loriga - On-demand amputation. Right to choose?

Body integrity dysphoria is a diagnosis that raises more questions than it answers. Leandro Loriga from the Institute of Medical Psychology and Ethics, the first graduate of the English version of the Bioethics doctoral program, has long been studying a condition in which a person considers a part of their body (or sense) to be so foreign that they have an insistent desire to have it removed.

1 Sep

Cilia in focus: Discovery of a new cell signaling mechanism may advance treatment of developmental diseases and tumors

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from laboratories at the Department of Biology and the Department of Histology and Embryology at Masaryk University, CEITEC MU, and the University of Oslo has described a new mechanism by which cilia influence cell fate.

15 Aug

Programed Stem Cells are able to form dental tissue

Researchers from the Jan Křivánek research group succeeded in "programming" stem cells to transform into cells that form dental tissue. They directly intervened in the cells’ genome.

31 Jul

Interview: We are not very good at making sex cells as a human species

Nicola Silva from the Department of Biology has long been studying the inheritance of chromosomes from one generation to the next, focusing on the phase of meiosis during which sex cells are formed. Together with colleagues from the research group, he discovered a protein that regulates the formation of the synaptonemal complex—a protein "zipper" that plays a key role in chromosome pairing and stabilization. The new findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, are a remarkable lead for scientists researching infertility.