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Life & Chemistry

Light-Activated Enzyme Switching: A Breakthrough in Biotechnology

Enzymes: they are the central drivers for biochemical metabolic processes in every living cell, enabling reactions to take place efficiently. It is this very…

Health & Medicine

Diabetes Linked to Higher Risk of Early Colorectal Cancer

Scientists have analyzed data of about 13 million people in order to determine the risk of colorectal cancer in diabetic patients. Researchers of the German…

Medical Engineering

Exploring Breast Tumors with High-Resolution Opto-Acoustic Mesoscopy

Malignant tumors consume nutrients and oxygen faster than healthy cells. To do so, they recruit blood vessels in their environment. Depending on tumor type and…

Information Technology

Unlocking Biomolecule Insights: Algorithms and Holographic Diffraction

When a laser beam is ‘shot’ at a particle (a molecule or a crystal) during SPI, each object produces a diffraction pattern, which helps scientists to…

Physics & Astronomy

NIST Boosts Microwave Signal Stability by 100x with Atomic Clocks

The work transfers the already superb stability of the cutting-edge laboratory atomic clocks operating at optical frequencies to microwave frequencies, which…

Information Technology

'One-way' electronic devices enter the mainstream

Waves, whether they are light waves, sound waves, or any other kind, travel in the same manner in forward and reverse directions–this is known as the…

Life & Chemistry

Bristol scientists see through glass frogs' translucent camouflage

A team of scientists from the University of Bristol, McMaster University, and Universidad de Las Américas Quito, sought to establish the ecological importance…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Flowering Time: Insights into Genetic Regulation

All flowering plants pass through a flowering period at the transition from the growth to the reproductive phase. Its beginning is determined by complex plant…

Life & Chemistry

Honeybees Affected by Pesticides: New Video Insights

A newly developed video technique has allowed scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt at the Bee Research Institute of the Polytechnical Society to record…

Health & Medicine

Safer Laser Treatment for Eye Floaters: A Clear Vision Project

Conventional therapies for vitreous opacities in the eye are very risky and can make the situation of those affected even worse. An already existing treatment…

Medical Engineering

New Double-Contrast Technique Enhances MRI Tumor Detection

researchers at the University of California, Davis offers a significant advance in using magnetic resonance imaging to pick out even very small tumors from…

Life & Chemistry

Max Planck researchers develop the "ultimate cell sorter"

In medicine and biology, there is great interest in efficient and inexpensive methods for identifying and separating different cell types, for example for…

Life & Chemistry

Sugar Transforms Brown Algae Into Effective Carbon Sinks

You may like them or not, but almost everyone knows them: brown algae such as Fucus vesiculosus, commonly known as bladderwrack, grow along the entire German…

Life & Chemistry

Enhanced Precision in Vascular Imaging for Better Health Insights

Various diseases in humans and animals – such as tumors, strokes or chronic kidney disease – damage the blood vessels. Capillaries, the smallest blood vessels…

Life & Chemistry

New System Boosts Green Hydrogen Availability for Transport

As an alternative propulsion technology in the transport sector, hydrogen is playing an important role in the energy transition. However, it is not yet…

Earth Sciences

Scientists Reveal Ongoing Decline in Tropical Biodiversity

The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), used fossils to reconstruct global oceanic biodiversity patterns for the…

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