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Biostatistics? Statistics focused on biological data

The new head of the Biostatistics team is MUDr. Michal Šitina Ph.D. MSc. We talked in a short interview about his plans for the future, but also about the services that this department can offer not only to other research teams within the FNUSA-ICRC, but also to individual clinics of the hospital and external subjects. […]

Ancestral sequence reconstruction using the FireProt ASR web server.

Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction (ASR) is a technique used in the study of molecular evolution. In protein engineering, a field that seeks new proteins for use not only in medicine but also in biotechnology or other industrial applications, ASR is used to find unknown ancestral proteins from which the current ones have evolved. Basically, it’s molecular […]

Duchenne disease research continues

The research of another team from the International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno – Nuclear Cardiology – focused on patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Doc. MUDr. Vladimir Kincl, Ph.D. from the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, the leader of research team, focused on women who are carriers of this disease. […]