The analysis of copper levels in blood facilitates diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: TalTech In biology it is well-known that every living organism is triggered by the hereditary material or DNA that ...
Month: May 2020
New system for widespread availability of green hydrogen
Credit: © RGH2 As an alternative propulsion technology in the transport sector, hydrogen is playing an important role in the ...
Increased usability and precision in vascular imaging
Credit: Willy Kuo, University of Zurich Various diseases in humans and animals - such as tumors, strokes or chronic kidney ...
Kirigami/origami: Unfolding the new regime of advanced 3D micro-/nanofabrication with ‘folding’
Credit: by Shanshan Chen, Jianfeng Chen, Xiangdong Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Li, and Jiafang Li 3D micro-/nanofabrication holds the key to build ...
Rejuvenated fibroblasts can recover the ability to contract
Credit: National University of Singapore Fibroblasts are the most common connective tissue cells. They produce the structural framework for animal ...
NIH grant opens research, training for young scientists to study metabolic disorders
$11 million Center for Biomedical Research Excellence grant awarded to Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a campus of Louisiana State UniversityCredit: ...
Even natural products can be harmful for the unborn child
Credit: University of Bern Plant products ingested by pregnant women through their diet are broken down by the intestinal microbiota ...
Worth their salt: Skoltech and MIPT researchers report first case of hexagonal NaCl
Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech and MIPT scientists have predicted and then experimentally confirmed the existence of exotic hexagonal ...
The wildlife trade encompasses all major branches of the biological tree of life
Credit: Marco Antonio de Freitas. Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of ...
Exotic properties of helium-methane compounds inside giant planets
Credit: ©Science China Press National Key R&D Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, The Fundamental Research Funds ...
Cichlid fish loves exaggerated shells
Scientists dissect the complex choices of animalsCredit: MPI of Animal Behavior/ Jordan Lab What is important when you choose a ...
Synthesis of prebiotic peptides gives clues to the origin of life on Earth
A paper by Kazan Federal University appeared in Amino AcidsCredit: Kazan Federal University Coordination Compounds Lab of Kazan Federal University ...
Performing optical logic operations by a diffractive neural network
Credit: by Chao Qian, Xiao Lin, Xiaobin Lin, Jian Xu, Yang Sun, Erping Li, Baile Zhang, and Hongsheng Chen Optical ...
Smart machine maintenance: New AI system also detects unknown faults
Credit: Oliver Dietze A new maintenance system is helping to make sensors smart. A research team led by Professor Andreas ...
Towards visible-wavelength passively mode-locked lasers in all-fibre format
Credit: by Jinhai Zou, Chuchu Dong, Hongjian Wang, Tuanjie Du, and Zhengqian Luo Mode-locked fibre lasers generating ultrashort pulses with ...
Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores
Only highly specialized bacteria can carry out the degradation of brown algae with the help of more than hundred enzymesCredit: ...
Chirality-assisted lateral momentum transfer for bidirectional enantioselective separation
Credit: by Cheng-Wei Qiu Light carrying photon momentum can push and pull microparticles through momentum exchange. This momentum exchange progress ...
Directed protein evolution with CRISPR-Cas9
New area of application for gene scissors: Optimized proteins for biomedical researchCredit: MPI of Neurobiology / Arne Fabritius "Directed evolution" ...
Evidence shows cloth masks may help against COVID-19
Particularly those with several layers of cotton clothCredit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (May 22, 2020) - The evidence shows that ...
High-security identification that cannot be counterfeited
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba create millimeter-size chips with unique color patterns that cannot be forgedCredit: University of Tsukuba ...
