The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted how essential it is to have affordable, rapid and, above all, accurate disease diagnosis tools at our disposal. The 2022 Experientia Foundation stipend award winner, ...
An innovative idea that may change the current paradigm of organic synthesis. Michal Šimek, the 2022 Experientia Foundation stipend award winner, is planning to use radical cleavage to open up ...
Peptides – chains of amino acids linked by amide bonds – play an indispensable role in the human body. They make up proteins, including enzymes, hormones, and antibodies. One of ...
Investigating biomolecules such as sugars or proteins in their natural environment is a scientific challenge. To be able to achieve this, researchers need to develop bioorthogonal reactions, which take place ...
“Total synthesis is like a jigsaw puzzle. The structure of the molecule is composed of individual “pieces” which we have to prepare and put together in the right way,” explains ...
“I will focus on the development of new materials that might be used in the electronics of the future thanks to their conductivity and their magnetic properties,” explains Lenka Štacková ...
“Science has no boundaries. If you look around and keep your eyes open, you can come up with ideas that reach into completely new scientific disciplines, and that’s one of ...
Ondřej Baszczyňski originally wanted to research antibiotics, but eventually decided to study targeted drug delivery instead, partly as a result of a family experience. As the head of the first ...
The chemical and pharmaceutical industries are constantly looking for ways to produce new chemical compounds more quickly, easily and cheaply. One way of achieving this is to design new chemical ...
Delivering an inactive drug to a tumour in a targeted manner and shining light on it once it gets there to create an active drug from the inactive one – ...