8 Oct 2020

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 awarded "for the development of genetic scissors”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was given jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing." Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.

6 Oct 2020

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 split and awarded "for the discovery that black hole formation" and for the discovery of a supermassive compact object”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy."

6 Oct 2020

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance - Remco Sprangers (University of Regensburg) and Yoshitaka Ishii (Tokyo Institute of Technology & RIKEN)

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on October 8th at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

Remco Sprangers (University of Regensburg): Beyond static structures: Linking conformational changes in enzymes with function
Yoshitaka Ishii (Tokyo Institute of Technology & RIKEN): Innovations in Protein SSNMR using Ultra-fast MAS and SSNMR Studies on New Polymorphs of Ab42 Fibrils

5 Oct 2020

ICMRBS YouTube Channel

International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems- ICMRBS – has launched a YouTube Channel, which presents the on-line lectures delivered within the series “Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance”.

5 Oct 2020

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 awarded "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus"

This year’s Nobel Prize is awarded to three scientists who have made a decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world. Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice made seminal discoveries that led to the identification of a novel virus, Hepatitis C virus.

29 Sep 2020

Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance – Flemming D. Hansen (University College London) and Antoine Loquet (Universite Bordeaux)

The series Emerging topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance will continue on October 1st at 16:00 CEST with the following lecturers and topics:

Flemming D. Hansen (University College London) : Interactions and dynamics of arginine side chains in proteins by 13C-detected NMR
Antoine Loquet (Universite Bordeaux): Structural architecture of yeast cell wall and functional amyloids by solid-state NMR

29 Sep 2020

On-line workshop of FAIR data October 1st and 2nd, 2020 – registration open

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Photon and Neutron Data Service (ExPaNDS) project is organizing a workshop on FAIR data. This first online workshop in a series of two aimed at instrument scientists and other facility staff provides an overview of FAIR – data that are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

29 Sep 2020

CIISB signed the MANIFESTO FOR EU COVID-19 RESEARCH

Last July the EU Commission has launched the MANIFESTO FOR EU COVID-19 RESEARCH, to maximise the accessibility of research results in the fight against COVID-19. The Manifesto is part of the EU Coronavirus response, the common European response to the coronavirus outbreak.