Four billion years ago, when the first living molecules appeared on Earth, there was no protective ozone layer in the atmosphere. In effect, the biostructures of the time must have been extremely resistant to UV radiation. According to the Polish-Cze...
Prof. Daniel T. Gryko from the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ICHO PAN) in Warsaw, winner of many Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) programs, discovered how long-range electron transfer can occur, along with his c...
People are now producing huge amounts of digital data. A sudden increase in the amount of information to be processed, stored and transferred is quite a challenge for scientists working on new technologies associated with data processing and recordin...
A European team of scientists, including researchers from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (MIBMiK) in Warsaw, discovered proteins participating in the management of metabolic processes taking place inside human cells. Deregu...
Three Polish scientists are among the winners of the prestigious Consolidator grant, announced today by the European Research Council (ERC). International experts who reviewed the 2020 competition applications recognised projects submitted by Justyna...
The world of science is taking intense efforts to find compounds which would stop the replication of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, thus providing causative treatment for COVID-19, and blocking the spread of this pathogen. One of the ideas is to inhibit...
Piotr Skowron, Dsc., from the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, received the prestigious IJCAI Computers and Thought Award. The award is given to outstanding young scientists studying artificial intellige...
We already know quite a lot about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. We understand how it spreads and penetrates into human cells; we recognise its genome and the proteins that build it. However, several details relating to the production of virus proteins ...
