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Peer-Review Science Trends on Twitter: Who’s Participating?

She and her colleagues from the US, UK and Germany took 1.4 million articles held in the PubMed and Web of Science databases and determined how many times they…

Health & Medicine

Gene Switch Flip Reactivates Fetal Hemoglobin for Sickle Cell

Hematology researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have manipulated key biological events in adult blood cells to produce a form of hemoglobin…

Health & Medicine

Uncovering Concussion Insights: New Findings in Mice and Humans

There is more than meets the eye following even a mild traumatic brain injury. While the brain may appear to be intact, new findings reported in Nature suggest…

Automotive Engineering

Boosting Automotive Bonding Processes for Electric Vehicles

The quality of these bonded connections is one of the main factors that determines the reliability and availability of drive systems in electric vehicles, and…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Contact Lens Delivers Monthly Glaucoma Medication

For nearly half a century, contact lenses have been proposed as a means of ocular drug delivery that may someday replace eye drops, but achieving controlled…

Health & Medicine

Good Cholesterol’s Role in Reducing Inflammation Unveiled

An important function of HDL is its anti-inflammatory properties. An international research team at the Institute of Innate Immunity at the University Hospital…

Environmental Conservation

Unlocking Waste Heat: Siemens’ Multi-Modal Energy Innovations

In its latest issue the research magazine “Pictures of the Future” reports about the chances of this multi modal energy system. Scientists of Siemens' global…

Life & Chemistry

ABC Transporters Boost Leaf Beetle Larvae’s Defense Mechanism

Poplar leaf beetles are able to transport salicin, which is found in their leafy diet, via several cell membranes into their defensive glands, where the…

Technology Offerings

Hot Carrier Solar Cells: Boosting Efficiency Beyond 30%

The presented invention describes a method for increasing the efficiency of solar cells of so-called hot carrier at more than 30% by the rapid separation of hot electrons and holes in each band prior to cooling. The object is solved by the use of a specially adapted for this purpose, a double hetero structure which has never been used for the separation of the hot carrier in a hot carrier solar cell.

Materials Sciences

Berkeley Lab Unveils Nonlinear Light-Generating MetaMaterial

The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and more powerful than today’s supercomputers. For the…

Corporate News

Süwag Energie AG orders battery storage system for "green2store" research project

The custom-made storage system is based on lithium-ion batteries and has a capacity of 135 kilowatt hours (kWh) in this version. Süwag Energie AG will use the…

Life & Chemistry

Shark and Human Proteins: Surprising Genetic Similarities Revealed

The first deep dive into a great white shark’s genetic code has fished up big surprises behind a design so effective it has barely changed since before…

Life & Chemistry

Prostate Cancer Biomarker: Predicting Patient Outcomes Effectively

The study, posted online recently in advance of publication in Cancer Research, was led by co-investigators Andries Zijlstra, Ph.D., assistant professor of…

Studies and Analyses

Anti-Diabetic Drugs Cut Cancer Risk in Women with Diabetes

A Cleveland Clinic-led study shows that a specific type of diabetes drug can decrease the risk of cancer in female patients with type 2 diabetes by up to 32…

Awards Funding

EU Invests €36M in Atmosphere Research Innovations

The new research cluster “Aerosols and Climate” started on Thursday 5 December with a kick-off meeting at the Potsdam Research Unit of the Alfred Wegener…

Health & Medicine

Human Stem Cells Enhance Alzheimer Drug Testing Efficacy

A research team from the University of Bonn and the biomedical enterprise LIFE & BRAIN GmbH has been able to show that results of established test methods with…

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