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Life & Chemistry

Virtual Screening Boosts Active Substance Research Against COVID-19

Over the past few weeks, the research group in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, led by Professor Markus Lill, has been working with computer-aided…

Life & Chemistry

Human Tissue Production in Space: A New Frontier

On 6 March at 11:50 PM EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off from Cape Canaveral (USA). On board: 250 test tubes from…

Life & Chemistry

Curved Bones: Insights from RVC and MPIKG Research

Research conducted by the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), in collaboration with Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG) and University College…

Life & Chemistry

Specialized Helper Cells Enhance Immunological Memory Insights

Most vaccines induce specific antibodies that provide life-long defense against infection by pathogens. There are still many infections, however, for which no…

Life & Chemistry

Discover How Khulans Find Water in the Gobi Desert

Most large herbivores in arid landscapes are especially vulnerable to disturbances of their habitat – one of these is the Asiatic wild ass or khulan (Equus…

Life & Chemistry

X-Ray Eyes Reveal Insights on Deadly Tularemia Pathogen

Tularemia remains poorly understood and no safe and effective vaccine exists for the disease. The extreme lethality of F. tularensis and its potential to be…

Physics & Astronomy

Terahertz Radiation Technique Enhances Atomic Behavior Studies

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made a promising new advance for the lab's high-speed “electron camera”…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Microsystems Engineers Advance Adaptive Optics with New Aid

The team at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) has developed a novel, transmissive optofluidic component for adaptive optics.

Medical Engineering

Research towards improved cochlear implants – Computer model shows neuronal activation patterns in the inner ear

People with normal hearing perceive sound by means of hair cells located in the cochlea, the fluid-filled hollow part of the inner ear. These hair cells…

Interdisciplinary Research

Assessing Heart Perfusion: Key Insights from Imaging Techniques

Whether patients suffer from acutely or chronically narrowed coronary vessels – quantitative imaging techniques are indispensable when it comes to detecting…

Earth Sciences

Investigating Shrinking Fossilized Cephalopods at FAU

The extinction of the dinosaurs was not the first clear indication that changes in the environment and the climate have considerable effects on the biosphere….

Life & Chemistry

Chlamydia’s New Way to Enter Human Cells Uncovered by Researchers

Chlamydia, a type of pathogenic bacteria, need to penetrate human cells in order to multiply. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have…

Environmental Conservation

How Urban Trees Combat Heat Islands in Cities

The warmest winter since weather records began is just coming to an end. The average temperature was 3.4 degrees Celsius above the average for the years 1981…

Medical Engineering

High-Tech Contact Lenses Correct Color Blindness Effectively

Researchers have incorporated ultra-thin optical devices known as metasurfaces into off-the-shelf contact lenses to correct deuteranomaly, a form of red-green…

Materials Sciences

New Paths for Moore’s Law: Advancements in Microelectronics

Step by step, scientists are figuring out new ways to extend Moore's Law. The latest reveals a path toward integrated circuits with two-dimensional transistors.

Materials Sciences

Exploring Molecular Artistry in Quantum Material Innovation

Over millennia, civilizations progressed through the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages. Now the time has come for quantum materials to change the way we live,…

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