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New Air Filter Captures and Kills Coronavirus Effectively

Researchers from the University of Houston, in collaboration with others, have designed a “catch and kill” air filter that can trap the virus responsible for…

Health & Medicine

Unraveling Glioblastoma: Insights into Tumor Development Patterns

Brain cancers have long been thought of as being resistant to treatments because of the presence of multiple types of cancer cells within each tumor. A new…

Health & Medicine

Choosing the Right Helmet: A Guide for Moped Safety

In Austria, more than 4,100 moped riders are injured in road accidents every year – including many young people. Despite the fact that it is compulsory to wear…

Life & Chemistry

Enzymes Revealed as Double Agents in Protein Modification

Proteins are the workers in a cell and, as the “basic element of life”, are responsible for the most widely varying metabolic processes. In plants, for…

Materials Sciences

Atomic 'Swiss army knife' precisely measures materials for quantum computers

It images single atoms. It maps atomic-scale hills and valleys on metal and insulating surfaces. And it records the flow of current across atom-thin materials…

Life & Chemistry

PRC1 Protein: Crucial Role in Cell Division and Cancer Insights

An over-abundance of the protein PRC1, which is essential to cell division, is a telltale sign in many cancer types, including prostate, ovarian, and breast…

Health & Medicine

Nanoparticle Gene Therapy Shows Promise Against Blinding Eye Disease

The research, described July 3 in Science Advances, provides evidence of the potential value of nanoparticle-delivered gene therapy to treat wet age-related…

Physics & Astronomy

On-Chip Spin-Hall Nanograting Detects Phase and Polarization

In theory, both singularities can be detected simultaneously if one can detect the topological charge and photon spin at the same time. Several methods have…

Physics & Astronomy

'Growing' active sites on quantum dots for robust H2 photogeneration

This research, published online in Matter, was conducted by a research team led by Prof. WU Lizhu and Dr. LI Xubing from the Technical Institute of Physics and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Engineers Harness Electricity to Purify Toxic Water

A team of engineers may be one step closer to cleaning up heavily contaminated industrial wastewater streams.

Corporate News

Guido Bonati is the new Chief Technology Officer and Head of Research & Development at FISBA AG

He structures the services required of R&D with the resources, ideas and potential and deploys efficient teams to successfully handle customer projects.

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria’s Role in Producing Natural Drug Products Explained

The active agents of many drugs are natural products, so called because often only microorganisms are able to produce the complex structures. Similar to the…

Life & Chemistry

Put into the right light – Reproducible and sustainable coupling reactions

A team of researchers reports in the journal Nature Catalysis that sustainable carbon-nitrogen cross-couplings can be performed using simple nickel salts,…

Life & Chemistry

Breaking Barriers: Advancements in Super-Resolution Microscopy

With high-resolution microscopy, it is theoretically possible to image cell structures with a resolution of a few nanometres. However, this has not yet been…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Quick Notes in the Genome: A New Perspective

Our genome is like a “book of life” that contains directions for each cell and the entire organism. But in order for each molecule to make its appearance at…

Physics & Astronomy

Unlocking Potential: The Future of Topological Materials

In physics, they are currently the subject of intensive research; in electronics, they could enable completely new functions. So-called topological materials…

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