Interactions between cells are of crucial importance for the proper functioning of tissues and the whole multicellular organisms. During pathological processes, such as cancer progression, alterations in cell-cell adhesion are very common. The molecular events underlying these changes must be deeply ...
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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...
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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....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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. ...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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