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Nencki Institute and i&i Prague launch collaboration to develop an innovative test for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
The National BioImaging Centre BioPixel is now open!
03.07.2025
BioPixel provides an ultra-modern, integrated platform for advanced, multidimensional imaging of biological processes, supported by state-of-the-art IT infrastructure for data collection and ...Astrocytes help understand human brain evolution
05.02.2025
Astrocytes, the guardians of neuronal functions, appear to have a more significant role in brain evolution than previously thought. The team led by Professor Aleksandra Pękowska, head of the ...Microbiota-derived metabolite prevents the development of asthma
19.09.2024
Epidemiological data indicate a correlation between antibiotic intake in early life and the development of allergies and asthma in adulthood. However, the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon ...Human fear is contagious; rats can also catch it, which is observable at the neuronal level
08.11.2023
Polish scientists have discovered that information about danger can be transmitted across species, possibly through scent. This was demonstrated by the following experiment: even if a human was ...