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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
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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
