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Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Analysis

The winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize awarded by the Central Bank of Sweden are three American economists working on the impact of social organization on the wealth of nations. The awardees are Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. Why are some countries unexpectedly successful and others unexpectedly unsuccessful? Why is it that countries with such rich cultures as India and Mexico have consistently struggled economically, while Australia or Canada have been successful?

Commentary on Nobel Prize in chemistry

Analysis

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded half to David Baker ‘for the design of proteins using computational techniques’ and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper ‘for the prediction of protein structure’.

The first Nobel Prize in computer science!

Analysis

On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to American physicist John Joseph Hopfield and Canadian-British computer scientist Geoffrey Everest Hinton. Although the prize was awarded in physics, the justification reads that it was based on ‘discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning through artificial neural networks’, which is clearly associated with computer science.

Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2024

Analysis

When it seemed that all functions of ribonucleic acids (RNA) had been studied and described, scientists discovered new types of RNA at the end of the 20th century that influence inheritance, development, and diseases. This year, the Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of one of these new RNAs. According to the Nobel Committee's decision, two American biologists, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun, received the award in Physiology and Medicine for their "discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation".

Graduate of Lodz University of Technology and a co-discoverer of the CRISPR / Cas9 technology -– awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry

Tue, 10/20/2020 - 08:17

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They were honoured for the ground-breaking discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 system, now widely used as a genomic editing tool that has revolutionized medicine. After the decision of the Nobel Committee had been announced, Charpentier noted that this success was possible thanks to, inter alia, dr. Krzysztof Chyliński, co-discoverer of the family of patents describing the use of CRISPR / Cas9.

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Hybrid dressings to the rescue of the patient

Tue, 08/18/2020 - 12:09

prof. Beata Kolesińska

Celem badań jest zaprojektowanie, synteza oraz zbadanie właściwości nowych, wieloskładnikowych hybrydowych materiałów użytecznych w zaopatrywaniu ran trudno gojących się - w tym zespołu stopy cukrzycowej.

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Growing „mini brains” – it is real?

Fri, 07/20/2018 - 13:23

dr inż. Katarzyna Nawrotek

Dr. Robert Krencik's Houston Methodist Research Institute research team is working on the possiblity of growing 'mini brains' from human stem cells. Availability of such structures will allow scientists to develop strategies for treating nervous system diseases and injuries faster.

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What's eating books

Sun, 11/12/2017 - 14:37

dr inż. Justyna Szulc

dr inż. Anna Otlewska

One of the most common symptoms of book, drawings and photographs degradation, especially those dated back to the cusp of the 20th century, is rusty brown discolouration known as paper foxing.

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