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Physics & Astronomy

New Cavity Design Enhances Light-Matter Interactions

Quantum physics describes photons as light particles. Achieving an interaction between a single photon and a single atom is a huge challenge due to the tiny…

Medical Engineering

Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty: Benefits and Risks Explored

For intermittent claudication, drug-coated balloon angioplasty is the therapy of choice to reduce the risk of target lesion restenosis, and consequently, the…

Materials Sciences

Boost EV Range with Lightweight Construction Materials

The expansion of electro-mobility requires electric cars to have longer ranges. Lightweight materials with optimized material properties can help put this into…

Materials Sciences

Faster Procedures for Flame-Retardant Plastics Development

The researchers are proposing both accelerated procedures in processing and in the characterisation of fire behaviour. The numerous investigations within the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Stable Plutonium Form Discovered at ESRF

Countries across the globe are making efforts to improve the safety of the nuclear waste storage in order to prevent release of radioactive nuclides to the…

Health & Medicine

Highly Diluted Ebola Vaccine Shows Promise in Macaque Study

A single dose of a highly diluted VSV-Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine–approximately one-millionth of what is in the vaccine being used to help control the ongoing…

Earth Sciences

Atmospheric Pressure’s Effect on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The unintentional leakage of natural gas from oil and gas wells into the surrounding subsurface – known as fugitive gas migration – is a major environmental…

Health & Medicine

Placental Steroid Deficiency Linked to Autism Risk

A study in experimental models suggests that allopregnanolone, one of many hormones produced by the placenta during pregnancy, is so essential to normal fetal…

Life & Chemistry

Phagocytes versus killer cells – A closer look into the tumour tissue

„It was already known that cancer patients that have many of these immune cells migrated into their tumour tissue have reduced survival rates”, says Sven…

Life & Chemistry

Intestinal Cell Renewal: Klumpfuss’s Role in Differentiation

Stem cells react to tissue damage with an increase in their proliferation rate, leading to the production of new differentiated cells. Balance between cell…

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene Advances: Controlling Spin Currents in Transistors

In order to make transistors that operate using the spin of electrons, rather than their charge, it is necessary to find a way of switching spin currents on…

Materials Sciences

Bio-Circuitry Mimics Neurons for Advanced Sensory Computing

Results published in Nature Communications report the first example of a lipid-based “memcapacitor,” a charge storage component with memory that processes…

Health & Medicine

Plant-Based Compound Boosts Gene Therapy for Faster Treatments

Gene therapy has broadened the treatment possibilities for those with immune system deficiencies and blood-based conditions, such as sickle cell anemia and…

Life & Chemistry

'Flamenco dancing' molecule could lead to better-protecting sunscreen

A molecule that protects plants from overexposure to harmful sunlight thanks to its flamenco-style twist could form the basis for a new longer-lasting…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Energy Flow Innovations in Nano-Scale Light Harvesting

Plants and bacteria lead the way: They can capture the energy of sunlight with light-harvesting antennas and transfer it to a reaction centre. Transporting…

Medical Engineering

MR-Compatible Ultrasound System for Tumor Treatment

The Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT presents an MR-compatible ultrasound system for the therapeutic application of ultrasound (tumor…

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