Scientists from the Mendel University in Brno will participate in a European project to respond to major global changes in society. Most of the population is now moving to big cities and the question of how to feed these cities arises. The project, called Hungry…

Use of electrochemical biosensors based on printed electrodes in practice is one of the main goal of Research group for biomarkers. In cooperation with the University of Pardubice, they have developed an automatic device that brings this dream closer to reality. Journal Analytical Methods appreciated…

Panning wine, as well as misrepresenting the geographical origin of wine, brings multimillion-dollar losses to winemakers. Scientists from the Faculty of Agronomy at Brno’s Mendel University are trying to change this with the help of the UV fingerprint method, which has already been successfully applied…

With the world’s dwindling water supplies, scientists are increasingly looking at how to treat wastewater more efficiently. One possibility for the future could be the use of microalgae with artificial intelligence, which is a line of research currently underway at our Department of chemistry and…

Ph.D. Studying can be one big adventure, during which you make a lot of friendships, new collaborations, you can travel a lot, go on internships and conferences, and last but not least, do research that you enjoy and makes sense of. Our student Soumajit Mukherjee,…

Thanks to the third part of the (Ne)Vědkyně podcast, which was created at our Department for the purpose of popularizing science and our scientists, we can meet another of our colleagues, Libor Lenža. Libor is a man of many jobs, interests and goals. He collaborates…

Farmers have been using zinc in livestock for more than a decade as a substitute for antibiotics, growth promoters and prophylactic drugs. Zinc serves to prevent the formation and spread of diarrhea among piglets weaned from sows. However, repeated zinc loading can induce resistance to…

Our colleague, Miguel Ángel Merlos Rodrigo, MSc., Ph.D. successfully published the article Metallothionein-3 promotes cisplatin chemoresistance remodeling in neuroblastoma in March this year, in which he examines the impact this protein regulation in tumor cells and the mechanisms underlying cisplatin resistance (you can find the…