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The Skin Microbiome: The Human Body’s Largest Organ as a Home to Various Organisms

Our skin is a colony of a diverse family of organisms, which we cannot see with the naked eye but without whose presence we cannot imagine the health of the human body’s largest organ – the skin. It is home to various bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other tiny organisms. Sometimes, we unknowingly har…

Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre

November 21, 2024

The regulation on doctoral student employment and remuneration comes into force

On November 19, 2024, the Cabinet of Ministers (CM) adopted a new regulation that guarantees income and social insurance during doctoral studies. This will increase the influx of applicants, promote the enrollment of the most promising candidates, and encourage the completion of doctoral studies wi…

Ministry of Education and Science

November 21, 2024

Latvia has joined the influential ESA network of incubators

On November 13, 2024, the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre in Latvia (ESA BIC Latvia) was officially launched at the Science and Innovation Centre of Riga Technical University (RTU). This milestone marks Latvia’s entry into the network of 32 ESA Business Incubation Centres a…

research Latvia

November 20, 2024

UL participates in a prestigious ERC synergy grant for the research of historical pandemics

The Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Latvia (UL) has become an important participant in the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Project "EUROpest". This six-year project combines interdisciplinary methods to study historical pandemics and their impact in Europe. The Baltic…

University of Latvia

November 20, 2024

RTU and «Frankenburg Technologies» lay the foundation for the advanced missile industry in the Baltics

«At this point, a completely new industry is emerging. Those students who are already participating in the development of missile technologies and those who will participate in the future will be the foundation of the new industry,» reflects Andrejs Puķītis, rocket engineer and CTO of the company, …

Riga Technical University

November 20, 2024

In the discovery of rare diseases, the "puzzle" is put together with the help of networking among researchers worldwide

Latvian geneticists are also working on the discovery of new and rare diseases, but for this to be possible, international cooperation is crucial, as explained by Dr. Inna Iņaškina, a senior researcher at the Biomedical Research and Study Center of the University of Latvia, and Dr. Ieva Mičule, a g…

LSM.LV, "Zināmais nezināmajā"

November 19, 2024

For the first time, gene banks of Estonia and Latvia are exchanging potato variety safety collection samples

The long-term cooperation between Latvian and Estonian potato scientists has reached a new milestone. The cooperation between the scientific institutes of the two countries in the MainPotRe project, which is currently jointly implemented, has encouraged the creation of safety collections …

Institute of Agricultural Resources and Economics

November 19, 2024

How to Prepare Future Engineers – Developing a Stratospheric Probe During Studies

On Friday, November 15th, students from Ventspils University of Applied Sciences are planning to launch the IRBE-6 probe into the stratosphere. This is a probe that rises higher than the clouds and airplanes, into areas where wind speeds exceed 100 kilometers per hour, temperatures drop below -40°C…

Ventspils University of Applied Sciences

November 15, 2024

Swiss support will increase the applied research capacity in Latvia

On Wednesday, November 13, the Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation to Latvia, Martin Michelet, and the Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance for European Union (EU) funds, Armands Eberhards, signed an agreement for the "Applied Research" program. This program aims to develop the capac…

Ministry of Education and Science

November 14, 2024