Leptin is an important satiety hormone that is produced by adipose tissue. The more fat there is in the body, the more leptin is released into the bloodstream….
How life arose from non-living chemicals more than 3.5 billion years ago on Earth is one of the deepest and still unanswered scientific questions. One…
Optics, as an area of research and development has a long tradition at the research institutes in Aachen. Over the past few years in particular, plastics have…
In today's information technology, light and electron charge are the main media for information processing and transfer. In the search for information…
“What is actually the most remarkable insight concerning the PeptiENV cancer vaccine platform is that we are able to envelop oncolytic viruses with the…
Since the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth — it always has the same side facing the Earth — the Earth will never appear to rise above the surface to…
Biofilms form when bacterial cells gather and develop structures that bond them in a gooey substance. This glue can protect the cells from the outside world…
“Human life on the planet has never been more complex,” said Caitlin Grady, assistant professor of civil engineering. “We're so intertwined with so many…
Non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) is often fatal because most cases are not diagnosed until they are so advanced that surgical intervention is no longer…
The Stuttgart Cluster of Excellence, “Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture” (ICDCA) highlights strong research areas at the…
In order to study the early Universe astronomers, have different methods at their disposal: One is to look to very large distances and therefore back in time,…
The formation of protein complexes is a highly organised process that does not begin with the “finished” proteins. Studies conducted by researchers at the…
Until the 1980s, military radar systems were often inadequately shielded against spurious radiation emitted by radar amplifier tubes. Such rays can cause…
The first-ever detection of highly energetic radiation from a microquasar has astrophysicists scrambling for new theories to explain the extreme particle…
The key finding: Prostate and lung cells have very different patterns of gene expression when they're healthy, but almost identical patterns when they…
Outbreaks of infectious diseases can sometimes reach epidemic proportions, such as the large Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa in 2014, which resulted in…
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