Employing an ingenious microfluidic design that combines chemical and mechanical properties, a team of Harvard scientists has demonstrated a new way of…
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument flies aboard two NASA satellites: Terra and Aqua. MODIS provided images from each of…
When an earthquake hits, the faster first responders can get to an impacted area, the more likely infrastructure–and lives–can be saved.
Down at the South Pole, where temperatures drop below negative 100 degrees Fahrenheit and darkness blankets the land for six months at a time, the South Pole…
By crushing minerals between diamonds, a University of Utah study suggests the existence of an unknown layer inside Earth: part of the lower mantle where the…
When cells are under duress, they curtail almost all protein synthesis and stash their mRNAs in stress granules. These structures help healthy cells, but they…
Epilepsy is a brain disorder that afflicts more than 50 million people worldwide. Many epilepsy patients can control their symptoms through medication, but…
The development of reliable, convenient and cost-effective methods for drug analysis is crucial in the control and the fight against drug abuse. Sponsored by…
The molecules used to make optoelectronic devices can be engineered to balance the chemical interactions within them and optimise their properties for specific…
For 80 years there was essentially a lull in tuberculosis research. Indeed, the last scientific breakthrough in 1921, the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)…
To do this, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB imbed selective adsorber particles in filtration…
Based on current research projects, the LZH is presenting how laser technology makes processes more efficient, and how it can be used for individualized…
B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, or B-ALLis the most common tumour disease in children and also occurs in adults. It develops when signalling pathways in…
HANNOVER MESSE 2015 – the world’s largest industrial fair – from April 13th to April 17th. The team, who will be exhibiting at the Saarland Research and…
The world of the so-called wearables is colorful and versatile: Wrist band measuring the pulse, buttons, which indicate the receipt of e-mails with color…
The human body has a highly efficient immune system, which recognises bacteria, viruses or parasites that enter the organism as “non-self” and kills them….
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