Author: Marta Koblanska
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Is Poland violating human rights?
Written and published January 17/2025, By Marta Koblańska, Photo: Daniel Reche, Pixabay One of the top Polish psychiatric hospitals in Lodz, central Poland, unabled a parcel delivery to its patient, demanding an entry fee from the services provider. The parcel had been left, though in the Polish Post Office, just ten blocks from the…
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Metformin, popular anti-diabetes drug can delay aging
Photo: Temel Aging is an irreversible process of mature organisms. It involves all organs. Now, Chinese scientists claim that metformin, a popular drug for diabetes may reduce symptoms of aging. Biology of each mammal organism is similar. First, in womb form a two-cell zygote, it starts transformation into more and more advanced form till the…
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Sleepy history in our hippocampus. How cells in this part of brain recognize outside signals
Surprise is not exactly what people like the most. We tend to assign better character to those we see more responsible for good outcome of interaction. Is the most important for us what we can not see? The recent study proves it might be. Particularly in digesting information from outside environment and during social interactions.…
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How single gene may trigger heart attack
One single gene may activate mechanisms responsible for heart attack. An old cure may help. Every second cells building our body divide creating new cells and this is a very complicated process. The major goal of that is to create cells which will maintain functions. The ones already used, you can say, lose their validity…
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Global warming is changing our DNA. But it may be an advantage
Photo: Pete Linforth Evolutionary response to climate change accelerated in the past 20 years. But, as Spanish scientists claim, the fact may help in adaptation to ongoing transformation. Global warming becomes a new reality which impacts life on Earth. Now no one is questioning the ecological changes it brings and more and more often they…