When double-stranded DNA molecules are heated, or exposed to denaturing agents, the two strands are separated. The statistical physics of this process has a long history and is commonly described in terms of the Poland-Scheraga (PS) model. Crucial to this model is the configurational entropy for a melted region (compared to the entropy of an intact region of the same size), quantified by the lo...

Corresponding author: Dariusz Rokicki MD, PhD Department of Pediatrics, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders Children’s Memorial Health Institute Al. Dzieci Polskich 20 04-730 Warsaw, Poland Phone: +48 22 815 75 45 E-mail: [email protected] 1 Department of Pediatrics, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders, the Children’s Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland 2 Department of Pathology, the Childre...

1Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznań, Poland 2Chair and 1st Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Wrocław Medical University, Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, University Hospital in Wrocław, Poland 3Department of Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, ...

Third Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Provincial Hospital, Wloclawek, Poland, Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland, Department of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Internal Medicine, Nicolaus Copernic...

1Department of Clinical Oncology, University Hospital in Krakow, Krakow, Poland 2Department of Experimental and Clinical Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland 3Department of Palliative Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University Hospital in Krakow, Krakow, Poland 4Department of Pain Treatment and Palliative Care, Jagiellonian University Medica...

1 University of Szczecin, Institute of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Mental Health, Szczecin, Poland 2University Center for Education, University of Szczecin, Poland 3Department of Psychiatry, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland 4Department of Psychiatry, Vienna University, Austria 5Department of Nursing, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland 6 Institut...

1 ‐ Department of Anti-Doping Research, Institute of Sport, Warsaw, Poland. 2 Department of Endocrinology, Institute of Sport, Warsaw, Poland. 3 Department of Nutrition Physiology, Institute of Sport, Warsaw, Poland. 4 Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland. 5 Department of Exercise Physiology, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus Univer...

A cautionary note on using binary calls for analysis of DNA methylation Agnieszka Prochenka*, Piotr Pokarowski, Piotr Gasperowicz, Joanna Kosińska, Piotr Stawiński, Renata Zbieć-Piekarska, Magdalena Spólnicka, Wojciech Branicki and Rafał Płoski* Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jana Kazimierza 5, Warsaw, Poland, Department of Medical Genetics, Medical University of War...

Poland's Syndrome is a rare congenital condition. It is classically characterised by absence of unilateral chest wall muscles and sometimes ipsilateralsymbrachydactyly (abnormally short and webbed fingers). The condition typically presents with unilateral absence of the sternal or breast bone portion of the pectoralis major muscle which may or may not be associated with the absence of nearby mu...

1National Consultant in intensive therapy, Chair and 1st Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Wrocław Medical University, Poland 2Department of Medical Law, Chair of Forensic Medicine, Wrocław Medical University, Poland 3Chair and 2nd Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Wrocław Medical University, Poland 4National Consultant in anaesthesiology and intensive ther...