Extracellular vesicles are membrane-enclosed cell fragments, which represent an important intercellular communication system and participate in the physiological and pathophysiological processes in the organism. The article published in the ACS nano journal describes the existing and potential use of extracellular vesicles in nanomedicine. This work was selected by ARRS among 5 achievements in the field of medicine in the framework of the promotion "Excellent in Science"
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures
Contribution to facilitating cooperation among refugees who need health care in health care workers working in emergency situations of increased refugee recidivism.
F.12 Improvements to an existing service
COBISS.SI-ID: 291492864In the framework of FP7 project with the acronym DRONIC (http://dronicproject.com) we developed an innovative robotic system for monitoring and inhibiting the growth of potentially toxic cyanobacteria in lakes and reservoirs. With the help of the DRONIC system, we can locate critical points of cyanobacterial flowering in the water body and act only on the part of the water body, where flowering occurs.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 4165711The mesoporous semiconductor TiO2 microspheres were enriched with gadolinium to be useful in optical imaging and magnetic resonance, due to effects of spin relaxation and photoluminescence. Additional use is due to formation of reactive oxygen compounds. It is essential that cancer cells have different dynamics of internalization of TiO2 microspheres comparing to normal cells. Cancer cells uptake them more efficiently, which is then fatal for cancer cells after exposure to UV light. The work that was published in the journal “Small”was selected among the 10 most outstanding achievements of the University of Ljubljana in 2017.
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures
At the Congress of the Physiotherapists Association of Slovenia, the main topic was balance and posture assessment and therapy. It is directly or indirectly an integral part of any physiotherapeutic treatment, since the impairment of the balance result from various injuries, diseases and conditions. Due to injuries, the balance is also impaired in various groups of top athletes, people who have suffered various injuries and diseases of the locomotor system, diseases of the central or peripheral nervous system and, of course, in older adults, due to the aging of the systems that regulate posture and balance. Balance training should be structured in such a way that it addresses as many components as possible. In program planning it is important to consider that balance is not an independent function, but is associated with various movement and cognitive tasks, which potentially compete for human attention. Therefore, the balanced exercise should be designed to be functional and as specific as possible. From the theory of motor learning, it is known that with such training is the fastest in the acquisition of functional abilities and their transfer to daily use is most effective.
B.04 Guest lecture
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