Researchers from Wrocław University of Science and Technology and MIT have demonstrated that peptides can maintain stability and fold into diverse structures in concentrated sulfuric acid. The findings may be of key importance in the search for traces of life in the clouds of Venus.

The STRAINS and Chemical Nano-Engineering (CNE) programmes have secured funding for future cohorts. The European Commission has also backed eGov-Sol, a Wrocław Tech-led project focusing on digital government.

Wrocław Tech has once again been ranked among the world’s top 1,000 universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Wrocław Tech is the only university from Wrocław included in the ranking and has climbed to 735th place in terms of research publications.

A team of researchers from Wrocław University of Science and Technology, France, Slovakia, and Taiwan has transformed an initially undesirable property of a clinical-stage anticancer compound, its sensitivity to light, into a potential therapeutic advantage.

Researchers from Wrocław Tech and Genentech have found a way to prevent a dying cell from breaking apart. They used pores that form in the cell membrane. These pores allow compounds that inhibit pyroptosis—a rapid, inflammatory form of cell death—to enter the cell. The findings have just been (...)