{"id":191551,"date":"2021-08-23T17:57:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=191551"},"modified":"2021-08-23T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:57:24","slug":"bialystok-scientists-patented-an-invention-that-could-aid-in-the-treatment-of-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/bialystok-scientists-patented-an-invention-that-could-aid-in-the-treatment-of-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bia\u0142ystok scientists patented an invention that could aid in the treatment of cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scientists from the Institute of Forest Sciences of the Bia\u0142ystok University of Technology, together with scientists from the Medical University of Bia\u0142ystok, received a patent for the invention &#8220;Polyporoid mushroom extract, a composition containing such an extract and its use&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest is a huge testing ground.\u00a0Almost 1,700 species of large-fruited mushrooms grow here, including 190 species of mushrooms that can only be found here.\u00a0Research on one of them- Heterobasidion annosum began a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It is considered by\u00a0foresters to be\u00a0one of the\u00a0most dangerous forest pathogens.\u00a0It causes a disease called root hub, which leads to the\u00a0dying off of entire forests, but research by scientists has shown that it can find positive uses in medicine, especially in the treatment of colon cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Heterobasidion annosum extract may be an active ingredient in an anti-cancer drug, the advantage of which is to limit the viability of colon cancer cells with low toxicity to healthy cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the Institute of Forest Sciences of the Bia\u0142ystok University of Technology, together with scientists from the Medical University of Bia\u0142ystok, received a patent for the invention &#8220;Polyporoid mushroom extract, a composition containing such an extract and its use&#8221;. The Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest is a huge testing ground.\u00a0Almost 1,700 species of large-fruited mushrooms grow here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}