Chitin is a major component of insect skins and shells; large quantities of it result from the production of animal feed – ever since the feed industry has…
In the body, the immune system often begins its response to various attackers in the same way: the body activates immune cells, so-called phagocytes, which…
“The teaching materials available today are either overly complex, under-stimulating, or only appeal to children who already have a keen interest in…
Creating, processing, marketing, or health-related issues – in food production, these are all linked. “The Food System Approach: New Challenges for Education,…
Goals in soccer only provide limited information about a team’s performance and the quality of its players: Goals are scored only rarely in soccer, and can…
Researchers will be presenting images and details of their self-developed system at stand G75 in hall 27 of the computer fair Cebit, which will take place in…
Any single habitat is only able to accommodate a certain number of large organisms because these must feed on smaller creatures. In ecology, this connection is…
The response of endogenous immunoglobulin E that leads to the development of allergies is “pointless”, because it interacts with inflammatory cells to turn…
eForFuel is a Horizon 2020 EU project launched in March 2018 and scheduled to run for the next 4 years with funding of around 4 million Euros.
Every day in the bone marrow several billion blood cells are formed. This constant supply is ensured by blood stem cells located in special niches within the…
On 4 July 2012, two of the experiments at the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) and CMS (Compact-Muon-Solenoid), reported…
Robust and lightweight steel-aluminum composite components are ideal for reducing vehicle weight and can help reducing pollutant emissions. In order to…
Light plays an important role in more and more economic sectors and markets – including in data transmission, communication, energy generation, laser…
So-called modular vaccines in which the antigen – the pathogen component against which the immune protection is to be developed – is physically connected…
Currently the only neuroprostheses that can successfully replace a sensory organ are cochlear implants: They can restore hearing in deaf patients. Cochlear…
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