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Life & Chemistry

Uncovering Hepatitis B Virus Camouflage in Immune Defense

The innate immune system is the first line of defence after infection by viruses and other pathogens. Molecular patterns typical of pathogens – so-called…

Environmental Conservation

Understanding the Disease Pyramid: Environment and Microbiome Insights

Biotic and abiotic environmental factors have a strong influence on the dynamics of diseases in humans and animals. In their study, the researchers focus on an…

Materials Sciences

Innovative Textiles for Masks Inactivate SARS-CoV-2 in Studies

The Swiss company Livinguard has developed a treatment for textile facial masks that can directly inactivate bacteria and viruses. While researchers at the…

Materials Sciences

Explore Fresh Innovations: 4mm Magnetic Chessboard Unveiled

It looks quite inconspicuous to the casual beholder, hardly like groundbreaking innovation: a small metallic chessboard, four millimeters long on either side.

Physics & Astronomy

Newborn Exoplanets Face Intense X-Ray Radiation From Their Sun

Young exoplanets live in a high-stakes environment: their sun produces a large amount of energetic X-ray radiation, typically one thousand to ten thousand…

Life & Chemistry

Prevotella Spp.: A Bacterium’s Role in Gut Health Insights

How does the bacterium Prevotella spp. influence inflammatory bowel diseases in a mouse model?

Earth Sciences

Magma Chambers Can Be Fully Molten, Study Reveals

Wits University (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) PhD student, Willem Kruger's study on the state of magma within plutonic magmatic…

Physics & Astronomy

Advancing Computational Catalysis for Predicting Chemical Reactions

Computational catalysis, a field that simulates and accelerates the discovery of catalysts for chemicals production, has largely been limited to simulations of…

Medical Engineering

Improved MRI Scans Enhance Arthritis Treatment Development

A team of engineers, radiologists and physicians, led by the University of Cambridge, developed the algorithm, which builds a three-dimensional model of an…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Sensitive Fluorescence Sensors: Enhancing Detection Capabilities

The core components of the fluorimeter include photodiodes with special anti-reflection layers, novel dichroic beam splitters, a powerful bandpass with a high…

Materials Sciences

Unlocking Hard Carbon Coatings: Innovations in Passivation

Hard carbon coatings are in use worldwide on a large industrial scale. A particularly frequent user is the automotive industry, which uses more than 100…

Process Engineering

R2RNet: Advancing Roll-to-Roll Surface Functionalization

In the R2RNet network, founded on June 10, 2020, 21 European partners from industry, research organizations and universities are pooling their expertise in the…

Interdisciplinary Research

Maritime Shipping Insights from Brain Network Science

Dr. Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci from TU Dresden’s Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) is focusing his research on network science applied to biological systems and…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers identify “hot spots” for developing lymphatic vessels

When an embryo develops, a wide variety of proteins and enzymes trigger a series of biochemical reactions. The development of the lymphatic vasculature is…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Malaria Parasites: Syncing with Host Clocks

The mystery behind the molecular basis of how these parasites synch their rhythm in replication to the host's clock-driven rhythms has been solved.

Life & Chemistry

Microneedling with Stem Cells: Healing Damaged Tissues

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent in that they naturally replenish the cell types that build our bone, cartilage and adipose tissues.

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