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UV Radiation in fight against adulterated wines
In the beginning, there was light… actually, more like UV radiation. And it enables the chemists from Brno to differentiate among hundreds of samples of various wines. And they want everybody to be able to do the same thing. Just like the discovery of penicillin,…
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Wastewater without carcinogens? The Brno Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry is developing methods to achieve this
Azo dyes are the most numerous and most significant group of organic dyes. Although many of them have been shown to be carcinogenic or cause urticaria or allergies, they are still used to dye everything from textiles to plastics or paper. Over 70,000 tonnes are…
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Research within the SOMOPRO project is going to be finished
Mass spectrometry, electrochemistry or labelled nanoparticles. All these methods are used by Ing. Lucie Pompeiano Vaníčková, Ph.D., a researcher at the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in her research. The result of her project, entitled Metallothionein as a Prognostic Marker of Skin Cancer, should result…
