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Life & Chemistry

Crab Spiders: Unlikely Allies in Nature’s Interactions

Interactions between organisms such as plants and animals can be found everywhere in nature. Anina Knauer and Florian Schiestl, a professor at UZH’s Department…

Event News

IWOLIA Conference: Bridging German Industrie 4.0 and French Innovation

The Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, Systems Engineering and Image Analysis IOSB and the Technical University of Troyes (UTT) are the co-organizers of the…

Life & Chemistry

Study reveals how ‘microbial axolotl’ repairs itself

Some animals, such as the axolotl salamander, can regrow new body parts in a process that involves the generation of new cells. The damaged cells will die off…

Life & Chemistry

Lavish Blue-Green Algae: A Nutrient Boost for Zooplankton

Our seas are not everywhere fertile and full of colourful, diverse life. Wide areas of the world's oceans are naturally poor in nutrients. The fact that marine…

Business and Finance

Microtechnology Industry Growth: Hiring Trends on the Rise

Staff numbers und turnover are constantly rising in the microtechnology industry

Trade Fair News

Flexible Organic Electronics: Stylish OLED Innovations for Wearables

Organic light emitting diodes (OLED) as novel and elegant or stylish light source have already found their way to the common furniture stores and can be…

Trade Fair News

Hannover Messe: Cost-Effective Inkjet Printing for Touchscreens

INM will be demonstrating flexible touch screens, which are produced by printing recently developed nanoparticle inks on thin plastic foils. These inks…

Machine Engineering

Nanostructured Alloying with Oxygen: Advancing Material Science

Severe plastic deformation and powder processing techniques are used to produce nanostructured materials with tailor-made compositions and without the effort…

Trade Fair News

Hannover Messe: Advancements in Hybrid Inks for Electronics

Conductive inks are widely used in to print electronics. They are suitable materials for flexible photovoltaics, lighting, touch screen electronics, wearable…

Health & Medicine

Improving Influenza Vaccine Design: Key Research Insights

Current seasonal influenza vaccines mainly target a different, more abundant influenza surface protein called hemagglutinin (HA). However, because influenza…

Life & Chemistry

Pathogenic Bacteria’s Sticky Protein: A Secretion Breakthrough

All bacteria have a standard secretion system that allows them to export different types of proteins outside of their cells. An important class of…

Materials Sciences

New Advances in Superconductivity: A Fresh Perspective

When you plug in an appliance or flip on a light switch, electricity seems to flow instantly through wires in the wall. But in fact, the electricity is carried…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Wheat Research Unveils Gene Secrets for Better Crop Yields

A new study has isolated a gene controlling shape and size of spikelets in wheat in a breakthrough which could help breeders deliver yield increases in one of…

Health & Medicine

Gene Cocktail in Mice Sparks Insights for Pancreatic Cancer

The technology could revolutionize studies of pancreatic cancer initiation and progression and spur new drug development. An article published in the journal Carcinogenesis…

Health & Medicine

Organoids created from patients' bladder cancers could guide treatment

Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and NewYork-Presbyterian researchers have created patient-specific bladder cancer organoids that mimic many…

Life & Chemistry

Climate Change Disrupts Orchid and Bee Relationships

The first definitive demonstration of climate change upsetting the vital interdependent relationships between species has been revealed, thanks to a study led…

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