Current „boom” for new inhibitors of wall teichoic acids (WTA) of gram-positive bacteria has recently brought another scientific achievement. Tarocin A and B are novel compounds, which not having bactericidal action on their own, restore activity of several β-lactam antibiotics against methicillin-re...
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Biotechnology sector is the one of the fastest growing areas of science. As the result, the number of events, related to both the scientific and business topics is impressive. Universities and various scientific institutions organize seminars, meetings and conferences. This is great occasion to bring...
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“Kardio BNC” is a special project aiming to show in pre-clinical trials the potential of bionanocellulose (BNC) as a material to produce bioimplants for cardiac and vascular surgery. It is also a success of Polish manufacturer producing an original bionanocellulose....
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What if everything that surrounds us is translated into digital world. Information about a coffee you are drinking. About a view outside your window. About how much you spent today on gas and dinner. About a temperature outside and air pollution. About a heartbeats of an oyster. Let’s talk about digi...
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Inspired by prof. Saulius Caplinskas from Center of Communicable Diseases and AIDS in Vilnius during a conference ''Infections of regional importance’’ in Moscow we decided to go to Vilnius to meet him again and expand the knowledge of HIV problem. In this article you can learn how the current situat...
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The neuralgic period of antibiotic therapy history in which we are now prompts to intense search for new natural antibiotics, for example in environmental samples. The main areas of such search are sea water and soil. However, among plenty of microorganisms living in natural environment only 1% of st...
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– What do diamonds and HIV have in common? They are forever. We cannot survive without proper commercial management – young people cannot live without a computer – explained Saulius Caplinskas during a conference organized by Baltic Antiviral Network, „Infections of regional importance” (Moscow, Octo...
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European Parliament amended the legislation regulating scientists’ access to personal health data for research purposes. Followers of the amendment claim it will facilitate research including case studies, disease registries and biobanking....
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Team of researchers from Paris have developed a technique utilizing ultrasonic waves for vascular imaging. Ultrafast ultrasound localization microscopy (uULM) presents a super-resolution and penetration depth. It is based on tracking a way of a specific contrast agent – microbubbles....
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Immigration crisis currently present in Europe does not pass unnoticed in influential scientific press. How the immigration problem is shown on Nature, Science and New Scientist services? Here, we present the main press review. ...
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Answers for all Your questions about liver pathologies in one place? Yes, they may be provided by the iLiver application. Prof. Francesco Negro told us some details about this application during 12th Conference "Viral Infections of Regional Significance", which was organised by Antiviral Baltic Netwo...
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Genome editing with the use of TALENs – the artificial restriction enzymes – was employed for the world first time to cure acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. TALENs helped to modify T cells obtained from a healthy donor in order to beat cancer cells, remaining invisible to immune system and immunosuppres...
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10 years ago a Nobel Prize awarded a discovery connecting Helycobacter pylori with gastric carcinogenesis. But only today, a host-microbiome relation research starts to enter its critical phase. It turns out, that we are not the only architects of our own fortune – they are, small frequenters of our ...
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Euphresco is a network gathering funders and coordinators of research in phytosanitary area. It engages science priorities in taxonomy, physiology, protection and pathogenesis of plant diseases. Euphresco meeting will be held on 23-24 November 2015 at Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG&MUG i...
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A vaccine based on HIV gp120 protein is a unique product for 15 years protection against infection. Unique, because it has been introduced by the team of Prof. Robert Gallo – a pioneer in the field of AIDS research and previous critic of disease-related vaccination....
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The Ebola virus can be deadly. Depending on the virus strain, between 25 and 90 percent of those infected with the disease die. The virus is passed on through direct contact with the blood or body fluids of sick or already dead people, as well as infected wild animals. That is why it is vital to know...
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The DNA-protein interactions, according to their critical influence on cells, have been widely studied using multiple biochemical and genomic approaches. In vitro methods such as electrophoresis gel mobility shift (EMSA) and DNase I footprinting assays were very limited and that led to the developmen...
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From 6 to 8 October 2015 Deutsche Messe was for the first time staging the two trade fairs BIOTECHNICA and LABVOLUTION in parallel at the Hannover Exhibition Center. The next BIOTECHNICA/LABVOLUTION event is to be scheduled for spring of 2017....
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