Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, or IOCB Prague is part of the Czech Academy of Sciences conducting basic research in a broad spectrum of the natural, technical and social sciences and the humanities. IOCB Prague itself carries out fundamental research in organic chemistry, biochemistry and related disciplines, focusing in particular on medical and environmental applications.
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A research team from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences / IOCB Prague has developed a novel computational method that can accurately describe how proteins interact with molecules ...
Analytical Chemistry
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A team led by Professor Michal Hocek at IOCB Prague has explored the limits of the structure and function of DNA and successfully pushed forward known boundaries. Their latest research has just been published in Nucleic Acids ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 9, 2023
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Researchers at IOCB Prague are the first to describe the causes of the behavior of one of the fundamental aromatic molecules, which fascinates the scientific world not only with its blue color but also with other unusual ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 19, 2023
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Scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Prague, the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Palacký University Olomouc, have once again successfully uncovered the mysteries ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 29, 2023
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Scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry in Prague have deciphered the structure of the protein methyltransferase from the monkeypox virus. It is with the help of this protein that the virus escapes ...
Biochemistry
Apr 28, 2023
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Researchers from Sebastian Zoll's group at IOCB Prague determined the first cryo-EM structures of a surface receptor of the human-infective parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in complex with human complement factor C3 ...
Biochemistry
Apr 27, 2023
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An international team of scientists led by Tomáš Pluskal from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague) has introduced a new generation of software that enables scientists ...
Biochemistry
Mar 8, 2023
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Today we commonly encounter contactless RFID chips in a number of products, but can similar technology be implemented at the molecular level? The answer is yes. The principle of molecular encoding conceived by Miloslav Polášek ...
Biochemistry
Jun 10, 2022
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Researchers at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS (IOCB Prague) and the Technical University of Liberec in collaboration with researchers from the Institute of Microbiology of the CAS, the Department ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 30, 2021
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What does it mean to be a metal? How is a metal formed? These seem like textbook questions with a simple answer: Metal is characterized by free electrons that give rise to high electric conductivity. But how, exactly, is ...
Materials Science
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