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Turbo-Charging Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Simulations

Demand for biopharmaceuticals is strong: biopharmaceutical active ingredients – in other words, genetically engineered drugs – accounted for seven of the ten…

Earth Sciences

German HALO Aircraft to Study Southern Hemisphere Climate Change

On its mission “SouthTRAC”, the German research aircraft HALO will investigate the southern atmosphere and its effects on climate change in September and…

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Fraunhofer HHI Unveils Latest Video Technologies at IBC 2019

Versatile Video Coding (VVC): Video compression 2020 with live decoding

Health & Medicine

Uveitis Drug Comparison: Methotrexate vs. Mycophenolate

Methotrexate and the more expensive mycophenolate mofetil performed similarly in a head-to-head clinical trial that compared the two drugs for treating…

Physics & Astronomy

Optical Vacuum Cleaner: A New Tool for Nanoparticle Manipulation

Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with Russian and international colleagues developed the concept for constructing an “optical vacuum…

Life & Chemistry

Existing Drug Shows Promise Against Aggressive Brain Cancer

A research team from the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center has found that a compound molecule used for drug delivery of insulin could be…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Flaxseed Cultivar Promises Higher Yields for Farmers

After a 13-year process, a group of plant breeders has another cultivar to offer farmers. “A cultivar is a variety of a plant, created using selective…

Health & Medicine

Gene Coding Error Linked to Inherited Lung Scarring Disorder

By combing through the entire genetic sequences of a person with a lung scarring disease and 13 of the person's relatives, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers…

Information Technology

New Mobile Technologies Detect Methane Leaks Efficiently

While billed as a “challenge,” the organizers had no intention of declaring a winner, as the technologies focused on different aspects of leak detection, such…

Earth Sciences

Satellite data record shows climate change's impact on fires

Since 1880, the world has warmed by 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit, with the five warmest years on record occurring in the last five years. Since the 1980s, the…

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene Powers Next-Gen THz Astronomy Detectors

Beyond superconductors, there are few materials that can fulfill the requirements needed for making ultra-sensitive and fast terahertz (THz) detectors for…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Grassland Biodiversity: Nature’s Hidden Benefits

“The information collected with these tags gives us a good description of the scale of whales' feeding behavior over periods of hours, days and weeks, which is…

Life & Chemistry

In-Vitro Embryos: A New Hope for Northern White Rhinos

The in-vitro creation of northern white rhino embryos was achieved at Avantea Laboratories in Cremona, Italy. Prof. Cesare Galli and his team matured and…

Health & Medicine

New Method Reveals Unique Insights into Cell and Tissue Structure

Cells are the basic building blocks of life – and, as such, they have been the object of intense study since the invention of the optical microscope in the…

Physics & Astronomy

All-Polymer Photodetectors: Enhancing Quantum Efficiency

The photodiode type PPDs obeying photovoltaic effect exhibit external quantum efficiency (EQE) of less than 100%, which limits their applications in weak light…

Materials Sciences

Reconfigurable Electronics: The Future of Wearable Implants

Medical implants of the future may feature reconfigurable electronic platforms that can morph in shape and size dynamically as bodies change or transform to…

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