More than half of Poland’s terrestrial vertebrate species have been recorded among animals killed on the country’s roads, including common hedgehogs, blackbirds and grass snakes as well as rare and endangered species such as the European pond turtle, lynx and Aesculapian snake, according to research published in Scientific Reports.
The first systematic catalogue of 267 cullin–RING ligase substrate receptors, 93 of which have already been linked to genetic diseases, has been created by scientists from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IIMCB).
Poland is one of the world’s top hydrogen producers, while Polish researchers are developing technologies that could use the gas to store renewable energy and produce synthetic fuels, according to Professor Jakub Kupecki, head of the National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ).
The brain constructs the meaning of a story told in sign language in much the same way as it does for spoken language, but also uses additional areas involved in processing space, a Polish-American study has found.
In the age of algorithms that learn our weaknesses, even confronting people with facts may not be enough to change their minds, researchers from Jagiellonian University say.
The black hole in the Cygnus X-1 system could be spinning almost as fast as physically possible, or barely spinning at all. A team including scientists from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Lodz has shown that the answer depends on how the X-ray radiation from the system is modelled.
A device that stimulates the vagus nerve during sleep has been shown to improve cognitive performance in Alzheimer’s patients after one month of treatment, according to research by scientists from Łódź published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Cargo trucks, planes and ships can carry stowaways such as insects. If they find favourable conditions for living and breeding after arriving in a new environment, they can establish themselves, and some can become invasive species that threaten local ecosystems.
Scientists from the University of Wrocław have demonstrated that cancer cells can be chemically ‘programmed’ to take up drugs used in targeted therapies, potentially allowing treatment to be directed towards cancer cells rather than healthy ones.
Higher consumption of highly processed grain products is associated with an increased risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an analysis involving scientists from Wroclaw Medical University has found.
More than half of Poland’s terrestrial vertebrate species have been recorded among animals killed on the country’s roads, including common hedgehogs, blackbirds and grass snakes as well as rare and endangered species such as the European pond turtle, lynx and Aesculapian snake, according to research published in Scientific Reports.
