Yesterday at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, as part of the the Embassy Series Sponsored by the Ruđer Bošković Institute, The Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, His Excellency E. Park Seong Ung, delivered a lecture entitled “The Dynamic History of Korean Science and Technology,“ in which he presented the achievements of the Republic of Korea during the past 40 years in the areas of the economy, science and technology.

For the sixth year in a row, L'Oreal Adria and the Croatian Commission for UNESCO have rewarded the most successful young female scientists in the natural sciences and interdisciplinary fields who are in the final stage of preparing their doctoral dissertations. This year, the recipients include two research assistants from the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI): Martina Malnar of the Laboratory for Molecular Neuropharmacology and Galja Pletikapić of the Laboratory for Bioelectrochemistry and Surface Imaging.

We invite you to join us for a lecture by the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Croatia, His Excellency Park Seong Ung entitled „Dynamic History of Korean Science and Technology“ to be held Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 at 16:00 in the auditorium of Wing III, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute, as the first Croatian member of the European Cervical Cancer Association—ECCA, is proud to announce a public discussion on the topic Vaccination and the Battle against Infectious Diseases and Cancer—What Should We Do for Ourselves? What Else Can the Society Do For Us?, which will be held on January 24, 2012 from 6 to 8 pm on Kaptol 27 in Zagreb at the Tribina Grada Zagreba.

Zagreb, January 18, 2012 – As part of the series Eminent Scientists at the RBI, Dr. Domagoj Vučić (Genetech, USA) will present a lecture entitled Targeted Activation of Apoptosis in Tumors: A Research Journey from Caterpillars to Clinics, at 12 noon on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, in the auditorium of Wing III.

Ruđer Bošković Institute scientists, in cooperation with colleagues from the international collaboration of CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST), published a paper entitled “Search for Sub-eV Mass Solar Axions by the CERN Axion Solar Telescope with He-3 Buffer Gas”, an Editors' Suggestion in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Dr. Marijan Ahel of the Center for Marine and Environmental Research is a coauthor of an article entitled “The structure and catalytic mechanism of a poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase,” which was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature.

Yesterday, the Director General of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Danica Ramljak, Ph.D., presented Annual Awards to scientists who particularly distinguished themselves through their work in 2011.

Ruđer Bošković Institute scientists Maja Buljan, Ph.D., Nikola Radić, Ph.D., and Iva Bogdanović Radović, Ph.D., in collaboration with colleagues from the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Italy, have published a paper entitled "Grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering: application to the study of quantum dot lattices" in the journal Acta Crystallographica A—Foundations of Crystallography, (Impact Factor 54.333).

Did all the basic genes originate at a long-ago moment at the beginning of evolutionary time and since then did these original genes later create all the other genes through combining and copying? In the last three decades, the prevailing opinion in genetics has been that the copying of already existing genes was the main, if not the only, manner of creating new genes.