MindHand is a bionic hand prosthesis developed to facilitate the lives of the disabled and people after amputation. Scientists from the Bialystok University of Technology, the creators of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning design, have signed an incubation agreement in the programme Hub of Talents 2 - start-up platforms for new ideas in Eastern Poland. It is one of 34 companies supported by the Białystok Science and Technology Park.

Wrocław University of Science and Technology graduates are working on a device for measuring the level of glucose in blood with light. It is primarily intended to help diabetics, but also people on the diet and sportsmen.

Transplantology is being completely transformed. We perform heart transplants together with transplants other organs, kidneys or liver, we repair hearts from donors to take advantage of those in a somewhat worse condition, soon we will transport a still "beating heart" - the President of the Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Prof. Mariusz Kuśmierczyk told PAP..

Polish doctors started research on the prevention of type 1 diabetes. The study will determine if oral insulin administration to children with genetic predisposition to develop this disease will protect them from diabetes.

A very important enzyme, the elongator, has been caught in the act. This complex is important for proper folding of all proteins present in cells of organisms as different as bacteria, animals, plants and fungi. Polish scientists took part in the research project.

The whole world is moving towards mechanical circulatory support. In some countries, for example in Germany, artificial pumps are already implanted more often than hearts from donors; it will be similar in Poland, the President of the Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Prof. Mariusz Kuśmierczyk told PAP.

We can not talk about a causal relationship between drinking juices and higher risk of cancer, argues Dr. Agnieszka Kozioł-Kozakowska from the Jagiellonian University, commenting on the results of a recent study of French scientists. In her opinion, it is important to be particularly cautious when drawing conclusions concerning this issue.

Polish scientists have discovered a new mechanism that cancer cells use to deceive the immune system. Cancer cells can send "malware" to the lymph nodes in order to block lymphocytes. Work on therapies using this knowledge is already in progress.

Cow`s milk protein allergy is not a minor ailment, it is a serious disease. If untreated early and properly, it can pave the way for other serious illnesses, experts argued during a debate in Warsaw.