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A few questions about HIV to Saulius Caplinskas
– What do diamonds and HIV have in common? ...
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Inaugural EU-MED Summit organized in partnership with the city of Lodz will drive innovation and bring new opportunities to the healthcare ecosystem
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Molecular Biology and Immunology of Cancer – R&D perspectives: ScanBalt Forum 2019, 24-25 September, Gdańsk (Poland)
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Impressions from the visit to Wageningen, the specter of famine, CRISPR Cas9 to the rescue!
In June, a...
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Reach out to potential partners and customers in the Danish-Swedish life science cluster, Medicon Valley
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2015-01-13
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2015-01-15
Laboratory of Investment
Do You have a great idea and do not know how to sell it? Need a partner to the company because You do not really handle? Or maybe You do not have the money to start a business and place Your product on the market? Therefore Laboratory of Investment is for you! It has a capital, which will share with ... Read more
Tags biotechnology , investment , biobusiness , venture capital , Laboratorium Inwestycji
Olfactory cells used for spinal cord injury treatment
Spinal cord injuries usually have devastating and long-lasting effects on health. Nowadays, there is unfortunately no effective approach that would enable full restoration of functions lost after the injury. Polish physicians cooperating with English scientists came up with the idea of using olfactor... Read more
Tags olfactory cells , spinal cord , injury , Wroclaw , regeneration
2014-12-29
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2014-12-31
Life science sector in the next 15 years
Life science sector comprising such areas as biotechnology, pharmacy or biomedical technologies is one of the most rapidly growing markets. As societies all over the world are getting older and older, we can be sure that in the nearest 15 years its development will be even faster than nowadays.... Read more
Tags cancer , life science , future , ageing , Alexander Stratz
The Festival of Science in Hungary
During this year’s edition of the Festival of Science in Hungary, representatives of research institutes as well as business enterprises discussed the importance of science popularization and dialogue with the general public. Concerning biotechnology sector, such issues as ethical, legal and social ... Read more
Tags biotechnology , hungary , science , festival
2014-12-22
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2014-12-26
Biocad company as a representative of Russian innovation
Russian biotechnology sector as a part of central European region is still underfunded. However, despite political issues, it has a great potential for development with several leading companies shaping the regional market. Irina Gennadyevna, Public Relations Manager at BIOCAD, describes the company ... Read more
Tags russia , CPHI Worldwide , company , Biocad , Irina Gennadyevna
Understanding angiogenesis process is crucial for modern medicine
Angiogenesis, comprising a growth of blood vessels, is indispensable for proper organ functioning and repair. Abnormalities occurring in this crucial process are involved in various disorders such as cancer. Understanding its molecular background is the basis for the development of novel efficient dr... Read more
Tags medicine , cancer , angiogenesis , Yihai Cao , blood vessel , metabolism , obesity
2014-12-18
Novel ways of struggling with flu
Every year, numerous people all over the world need to be hospitalized because of the complications of flu. Despite many years of research, there is still a need of novel efficient medications. Hungarian researcher, Péter Horváth, together with Swiss scientists are trying to develop new method of str... Read more
Tags hungary , flu , capsid , virus , influenza
2014-12-08
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2014-12-12
CPHI Worldwide 2014 – the biggest pharmaceutical networking event
CPHI Worldwide 2014 that was held in Paris is the world’s biggest pharmaceutical initiative enabling exchange of experience and finalization of real business deals between companies from different parts of the world. Zbigniew Jezierski, a CEO of Syntal Chemicals describes how the event is organized a... Read more
Tags CPHI Worldwide , Paris , Syntal Chemicals , Zbigniew Jezierski , Polish companies
The only hope for central nervous system disorder patients
Stem cells have been already applied both in research and clinical trials seeking for new therapies of diseases affecting the central nervous system. Although they have long been a subject of ethical discussions, their potential in neuroscience research is constantly growing.... Read more
Tags nanotechnologia , pharma
Challenges in tissue engineering
Nowadays tissue engineering is one of the most prominent area of medicine. During 18th Scientific Meetings which took place in Gliwice 21.11 we had a possibility to meet with dr. Mehrdad Rafat, assistant Professor of Bioengineering from Linkoping University (Sweden) who co-invented the first clinica... Read more
Tags tissue engineering , cornea transplantation , Gliwice Scientific Meetings , Mehrdad Rafat , regenerative medicine
2014-12-01
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2014-12-05
Nucleolin as a target for anti-cancer therapy
Nucleolin, a multifunctional phosphoprotein present mainly in nucleolus, has drawn much attention of molecular biologists due to its role in carcinogenesis and potential of being attractive target for more efficient therapies. As current methods of cancer treatment are still highly unspecific, such a... Read more
Tags nucleolin , cancer , antibody , Bradford Goodwin , therapy
The Project of program for biotechnology sector – Polish Biotech Associaton
The association of small and medium-sized companies from the life science sector Polish - Polish Biotech Association presented the "Project biotechnology sector program". It dedicated to companies that actively develop their company in the biobusiness. The authors present the objectives of the projec... Read more
Tags biotechnology , Polish Biotech Association , biotechnology in Poland , biobusiness
One billion zlotys for the biotechnology sector
There will be created 100 new biotechnological start-ups to 2020 – this is the assumption of sectoral project for development of biotechnology in 2015-20120, which was presented in November during meeting of a members of the Polish Biotech Association.... Read more
Tags biotechnology , money , Polish Biotech Association , biobusiness
Stronger Cooperation of the Academies of Sciences of the Visegrad Group
Every year the representatives of Academies of Sciences of the Visegrad group discuss major chances and challenges of the central European region in the area of science. The last conference that took place in Prague was mainly focused on the regional aspects of Horizon 2020 programme. ... Read more
Tags cooperation , Visegrad group , science , horizon 2020
Stem cells application in Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) causes nerve tissue atrophy that appears as degenerative changes in the brain. Brain shrinks because of uncontrolled loss of neurons, especially within the hippocampus, frontal lobe and amygdale.... Read more
Tags Alzheimer's disease , Eva Sykova , neurodegenerative disease , regenerative medicine , stem cells , brain
2014-11-26
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2014-11-28
Polish researchers obtained positive results for ALS treatment with stem cells
Polish researchers from The Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Varmia and Masuria has recently published their results concerning treatment of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with mesenchymal stem cells. It appeared that applied therapy hampered a progression of the disease in the majorit... Read more
Tags poland , stem cells , ALS , therapy
Fluorescent pipette tips may be beneficial in neuroscience
Hungarian researcher, Bertalan Andrásfalvy, together with American and Swiss scientists, has elaborated a novel method that can be useful in many research areas, especially in neuroscience. The researchers made a tip of a pipette fluorescent, which facilitated the determination of the tip position du... Read more
Tags hungary , neuroscience , fluorescence
2014-11-21
GlobalConnect 2014
This was fourth edition of the the largest forum for exports and internationalization that took part 4th and 5th of November at the Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre. There were 268 registered companies and institutions, about 3 200 experts from 37 countries around the world. The entrepreneurs had almost 5... Read more
Tags germany , GlobalConnect , economy , international companies , Baden-Wurttemberg
International Conference for young scientists in Prague
An International Conference for young scientists took place in October 2014 in Prague. It was a part of a wider project called InoPlaCe that is aimed to support young creative people and eventually to contribute to the development of innovation in the central European regions.... Read more
Tags conference , Prague , scientist
2014-11-16
