Category: Medicine in a nutshell
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Postrach małych i dużych, czyli garść o wirusie ZIKA
By Marta Koblańska, as a translator, the translation based on ,,Nature” published research, January 2021, edited April 30, 2026, photo: AI-generated neural structure, Pixabay Zakażenie wirusem Zika (ZIKV) kobiety w ciąży może skutkować samoistną utratą ciąży, koniecznością aborcji, urodzeniem martwego dziecka, zgonem dziecka po narodzinach albo wadami wrodzonymi, głównie mikrocefalią (małogłowiem) u dziecka. Ta ostatnia…
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A new approach to correcting errors. The way to modify the body blocks
By Marta Koblańska, January 29, 2026, 16:00 Poland’s time. The Author of the photo: Ruijin Ji, Cell Reports By modifying the conversion of purine bases that constitute a body’s template for growth and health, it may be possible to cure the most damaging illnesses, according to scientists in China. China is well-known for its farsighted…
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Carrying a disease. How a gene can alter the sense of life
By Marta Koblańska, January 2, 2026, 15:00 Poland’s time, Photo: double helix of DNA, Pixabay The lower the frequency of a disease-inducing gene variant, the larger the absolute effect in size; however, the growth is slower, according to the third most-cited study in 2024, published in Cell Genomics. The third most-cited study of 2024, with…
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When is biological engineering necessary? A look at the newest treatment for multiple sclerosis
by Marta Koblanska, December 3, 2025, 21:00 Poland’s time, Photo: Imitation of neuronal structure, thanks to geralt, Pixabay Degradation of the central nervous system caused by inflammation-induced lesions can be alleviated with genetically modified endurance cells CAR-T, according to the new research from China published in the Cell Press Journal. Multiple sclerosis is a highly…
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Why are certain medical experiments considered excessive?
by Marta Koblanska, November 20, 2025, Photo: Double-positive cells undergoing transition in the human embryo (top), authors, Elsevier Inc Where is the boundary between protecting life and sustaining life? A new study led by UK researchers suggests that this boundary may be found in the yolk sac tissue. Yolk-sac tissue, allegedly deriving from or differentiating…
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How to get out of addiction? How does it work? – opinion
By Marta Koblańska, September 9, 2025, 13:15, Photo: addiction pills, Rigby40, Pixabay Some unverified tips to overcome addiction. The best approach is to avoid starting any addictive behaviors. Why? Because it may only exacerbate a feeling that is perceived as necessary to eliminate. There are several ways to quit an addictive substance, each with its…
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Why do mitochondria like metformin, but diabetes does not?
By Marta Koblańska, 4 September 2025, 18.30 Polish time, Photo: diabetes, AI generated, Pixabay The drug’s anti-inflammatory effects can help balance copper and iron concentrations in the blood, which can alleviate issues related to excess sugar and diabetes. Metformin is a widely administered anti-diabetes drug. Its contribution to lowering excessive glucose levels has already been…
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How to make cancer dead in the body? Blood holds the key
by Marta Koblańska, 27.08.2025, 16:47 Poland’s time. Photo: CTC in cancer, Circulating tumor cells in the metastatic cascade (spreading fast), Cancer Cell Circulating tumor cells in the bloodstream may be crucial for therapies and preventing new metastases in the body. However, success depends on their molecular structure. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are utilized to assess…
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What influences cognition? The exchange in purine bases and amino acids in the brain.
Photo: Adenine structure, one of the purine bases, specifically connects to thymine via hydrogen bonding in DNA and uracyl in RNA, as discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick in the 50s. Credit:kropekk_pl Of the about 20,000 metabolites discovered so far in human blood serum, over 1,300 and 140 lipids have been observed to profile the brain’s uptake and…
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Why does mitochondrial disruption cost so much?
Photo: Mitochondrium, SkieTheAce, Pixabay Does evolution know the paths of the past and future? That’s possible according to new research published in ,,Cell”. How? By tracking the transport of signals and nutrients inside a cell. The mitochondrion is a cell organelle with a separate from the cell nucleus genetic material inherited only from a female…
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Why do women put on weight during pregnancy? Mouse example
Photo: Sunflower, Joshrowe, Pixabay Why do women gain more weight during pregnancy than the size of the fetus? Because of small intestine growth apart from the growing off-spring. Although pregnancy is a natural stage for females and generally does not require specific treatment if both the mother and child are healthy, the bodies of many…
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Why is fentanyl so perfect cure for increasing pain grade?
Photo: Rowan berry, chulmin1700, Pixabay Fentanyl, a currently popular opioid, effectively relieves pain by enhancing neuronal responses in selected brain pathways, according to a new study published in Neuron. Pain grades have been classified by the World Health Organization in 1986 as more and more humans started to get cancer. The author of the first…
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Plant protection is the key to sustaining life. Singapore’s example
Photo: The Singapore General Hospital Bicentennial Garden, authors: Abner Herbert Lim, Bin Tean Teh Genomic gardens of plants necessary to cure impaired people may be the only way to secure biodiversity, as urbanization and climate change lead to green destruction. Modern medicine would not have reached the level of today’s advancement without plants. They have been…
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Paradox of evolution. What can capture and unleash us from Earth?
Photo: Molecules, wastedgeneration, Pixabay A tiny insertion of a highly charged, binding potential helix into the space of RNA after the prokaryote code was lost or removed could change the direction of life’s evolution. RNA is a single-strand of ribonucleic acid, which is more primordial to DNA built with two strands and slightly different bases.…
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Losing and awakening heartbeat. What is sleep in real?
By Marta Koblańska, February 21, 2025 Photo: This model suggests that the physiological processes influenced by fluctuations in norepinephrine (NA) during NREM sleep—particularly those related to memory consolidation and glymphatic clearance—function best when these fluctuations occur approximately every 50 seconds. Authors: Anita Lüthi, Maiken Nedergaard. Sleeping is a kind of disengagement from the environment to…
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Does lack of oxygen in body cells trigger cancer?
Photo: Comparison of the performance of the 70 published hypoxia signatures using the IQM in 104 cancer cell lines, University of Oxford, Matteo Di Giovannantonio, Fiona Hartley Too high demand for oxygen in the body may signal cancer. A decrease of oxygen in tissues’ micro-environment shifts metabolic pathways. Oxygen is a substance without which there would have…
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When your body is starving relieve. Pain treatment at the edge of life
By Marta Koblańska, January 24, 2025 Photo: Dmitriy, Pixabay Various civilizations approached differently to people who needed strong care differently due to their health status. Western civilization is claiming its supreme role in the gentle transition of humans to the end. Palliative care is a new branch of medicine and has not been implemented in…
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What can heart do on the Earth? Cutting-edge technology saving life in Poland
Joy of prof. Rafał Krenke, the head of Warsaw Medical University and doctors who performed heart transplantation. Photo: Jarosław Kulczycki/WUM A 14-years girl dreams to go to high-school may become true as she received heart on time despite a long way transport. A new perfusion and temperature technology sustained life in the heart for over…
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Why are we happy when learn with positive outcomes? Dopamine which opens our minds just like it.
D1R photo-activation in neurons of the dorsomedial striatum combined with two-photon imaging of activity in L5 cortico-striatal projection neurons. Photo: Nuria Vendrell-Llopis, Jonathan Read, University of California, Berkeley Dopamine can modify already set patterns in our brain thus leading to a change of behavior. This neurotransmitter is doing so by activation a certain receptor in…
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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…