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What if scientists could control the activity of cells using nothing more than pulses of light? What sounds like science fiction has become one of the most influential technologies in modern biology. Earlier this ...

A representative of CTGCT – the Centre of Excellence for Technologies of Gene and Cell Therapy, Gregor Cuzak, attended the 7th regional Caring for Rare 2026 conference in Belgrade on 3 and 4 September, ...

Every cell in the human body contains essentially the same genetic instructions, yet a heart cell behaves very differently from a nerve or skin cell. For many years, scientists assumed that once a cell ...

Cancer treatment has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past decade. What if, instead of relying solely on drugs to attack tumors, we could reprogram a patient's own immune cells to seek out and ...

CRISPR technologies can rewrite a disease-causing DNA sequence, switch a gene off, correct a single genetic letter or even alter gene activity without changing the underlying DNA. Yet a genome editor can only work ...

How does a breakthrough gene therapy begin? What does it take to turn a scientific idea into a treatment that can reach a patient? In this interview, Duško Lainšček, researcher at the Institute of Chemistry ...

On 12 June 2026, representatives of the National Institute of Chemistry and CTGCT visited Gimnazija Jesenice, where they presented modern biological medicines and the development of gene and cell therapies to third-year students.

On the 13th of May, part of the CTGCT team attended BioFair 5.0 the largest career event for students in the field of life sciences in Slovenia, organized by the non-profit student association BEST ...

In our latest edition of the CTGCT Science Talks webinar series we had Dr. Thomas Fox, a clinician-scientist whose work bridges the gap between the clinical-laboratory interface working across Harvard Medical School and the ...

Last week 3 of our colleagues (Tjaša, Mojca and Tina) attended the UCL Advanced Therapies Symposium 2026 in London, an event dedicated to recent developments in cell and gene therapies and to strengthening links ...

Imagine if we could design the "building blocks" of life just like we design a new house or a car. Instead of relying on what nature has given us through millions of years of ...