Working with communications partner STDaily, one of the major news networks in China, the work by the Marcello Team and colleagues in Trieste in the battle against coronavirus has been published today.
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Latest updates
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has been isolated and the full genome sequenced at ICGEB Trieste – Italy
Alessandro Marcello, Group Leader, Molecular Virology lab, together with a task force team established by the Region, has reached a first, major goal in the battle against coronavirus.
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Increasing sugar production in saltwater to produce biofuel
In a recent paper by Shireesh Srivastava, Group Leader, System Biology for Biofuel, his team has successfully engineered a marine cyanobacterium to increase growth and glycogen (sugar) production in a simple medium.
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ICGEB Member State: Peru Current and Future Challenges
Dr. Cristina Guerra Giraldez, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Vice-President of the ICGEB Board of Governors, Liaison Officer and Appointed Governor of Peru writes on science, membership and outreach.
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Coronavirus COVID-19 update at ICGEB
A robust action must be taken to detect cases early, isolate and care for patients, and trace contacts to stop this virus from putting more lives at risk. Research is urged to quickly identify a protective vaccine and antiviral drugs.
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Celebrating International Women’s Day at ICGEB
We asked our Principal Investigators for recent updates from their labs on the vital contribution to science by women – a better way to get to know some of the projects and people behind our science. Here are some of their stories.
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Additional ICGEB-DBT Workshops to be held in 2020
An additional five events have been scheduled to take place at ICGEB New Delhi in 2020, thanks to funding provided by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
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International Summit on Women in STEM
January 2020: “Visualizing the Future: New Skylines” – the Department of Biotechnology DBT, Government of India and ICGEB New Delhi organised the International Summit on Women in STEM.
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Manu Prakash, inventor of Foldscope, with ICGEB Cape Town
On 26 February 2020, ICGEB’s Mariet Wium, Dada Temilola and Nathan Kieswetter joined Manu Prakash – inventor of Foldscope – and researchers from the University of Cape Town and North West University at Spine Road High School in Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town, to run a Foldscope workshop.
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ICGEB Science & the City Young
A series of public conferences on new generation issues in Science; a popular communications model launched and developed by the ICGEB, proposes three events at the Teatro Miela, Trieste city centre, in March/April 2020, organised by Serena Zacchigna. Admission is free. The events are in Italian.
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ICGEB India international research shows how the malaria parasite grows and multiplies
Scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding how the parasite that causes malaria is able to multiply at such an alarming rate, which could be a vital clue in discovering how it has evolved, and how it can be stopped.
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ICGEB signs MoU with University of Jordan
In October 2019, Lawrence Banks, ICGEB Director-General and Vittorio Venturi, Scientific Coordinator, were in Amman, Jordan to hold an Awareness Workshop and cement ties with the University of Jordan.
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