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Špela Miroševič, who is spearheading the developing of a drug for the treatment of her son Urban's CTNNB1 syndrome. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
Slovenia will co-finance the final stages of research of orphan drugs to help children with rare diseases under legislative amendments confirmed by parliament after the case of a five-year-old boy with a rare genetic disorder prompted a massive fundraising campaign.
Under the changes to the Scienti
A student working on a laptop. Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
Slovenian eighth-grade students rank slightly above international average in computer and IT literacy, but their scores have dropped since a decade ago and in computer thinking skills they fell below international average, the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) shows.
The
The 30th Science Festival. Photo: Jakob Pintar/STA
Scientists, science communicators and students from Slovenia and abroad came together last week for three days of lectures, talks, exhibitions and experiments during the Slovenian Science Festival, which has been explaining science for 30 years.
The first lecture at the festival, hosted by the Ljub
Roman Jerala, a researcher at the Institute of Chemistry. Photo: Manca Ahčin/STA
Roman Jerala, a researcher at the Institute of Chemistry, has won his second advanced grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for a €2.5 million project that aims to develop new ways of regulating proteins that could be used for therapeutic purposes such as cancer immunotherapy.
Jerala, head
An event marks the opening of the Slovenian language section at the European School Brussels I. Photo: Education Ministry
After years of efforts, a Slovenian language section has opened at one of the four European Schools in Brussels. Nursery school is available this year, to be joined by primary and secondary school classes later on.
The new Slovenian language section is an opportunity for Slovenian children to recei
Secondary school students tour the Planica Nordic Centre laboratory, which specialises in human physiology and medicine in space or extreme conditions. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

Planica centre hidden world of space technology

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Nestled in an Alpine valley in northwestern Slovenia, the Planica Nordic Centre is not only a place famous for ski jumping but also a scientific hub where researchers study human physiology and medicine in space and extreme environmental conditions.
As secondary school students participating in a U
Researchers Mojca M. Plesničar and Tina Lebar win ERC starting grants. Photo: STA
Slovenian researchers Mojca Mihelj Plesničar and Tina Lebar have each won a €1.5 million starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for projects dealing respectively with penal decision-making in the criminal justice system and the expansion of genome editing capabilities.
The two Slov
Barbara Breznik, head of the Cancer Biology Group at the National Institute of Biology. Photo: Bor Slana/STA

Research offers new hope for glioblastoma treatment

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Researchers at the National Institute of Biology are exploring new avenues for more effective treatment of glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. They have discovered different biomarkers that could be used as drug targets in the future.
In Slovenia, approximately 100 patients are
A primary school. Photo: Bor Slana/STA
Schools across Slovenia came alive in controlled chaos on 2 September, as nearly 280,000 students returned after their two-month summer break. Meanwhile the primary and secondary education systems, as well as kindergartens, are in growing crisis due to lack of teaching staff.
The new school year st
Peter Andolšek wins his fourth consecutive gold at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in Brazil. Photo: Dunja Fabjan
Slovenian secondary school student Peter Andolšek has achieved a remarkable feat that no other student in the world has achieved before. He has won his fourth consecutive gold at an International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, and emerged as the overall winner for the second time in a row.
A European pond turtle. Photo: Ljubljana Marshes Nature Park
On the southern edge of the Ljubljana Marshes, in the Draga Valley, there are ponds teeming with life. Apart from many species of birds, fish and plants, they are also home to the only freshwater turtle native to Slovenia, the European pond turtle. Since it faces many threats, efforts are being mad
A Slovenian-Polish project sets out to describe scents of museum artefacts for a library of scents. Photo: Heritage Science Laboratory Ljubljana
Slovenian and Polish researchers have teamed up to describe the scents of selected items from the two countries' national museums to understand the role of scent in historical context and develop methods to reproduce and archive these scents for future generations.
A collaboration between the Natio