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Life & Chemistry

Learning from Nature’s Bounty: New Libraries for Drug discovery

Natural evolution has created an incredible diversity of small molecular structures that perturb living systems and are therefore used as drugs in medicinal…

Life & Chemistry

Marine Animals’ Surprising Symbiosis With Bacteria Explained

Trichoplax is one of the simplest animals one can imagine, and looks like a shapeless little blob. Senior author Nicole Dubilier says it reminds her of a…

Life & Chemistry

First-Ever Photos of Rare African Golden Cat in Tanzania

The golden cat is a mid-size feline, males reaching 14 kg and 1.3 m, including the tail. The colour of the fur varies from intense orange to the typically…

Life & Chemistry

Discovering Links Between Aging, Stress, and Heart Attacks

The results of their study have recently been published in the renowned scientific journal PNAS. First author Anthony Zannas and his colleagues evaluated the…

Physics & Astronomy

Radon vs. Radium: Insights on Electric Dipole Moments

Short lived isotopes of both radon and radium have both been identified as potential candidates for measuring EDM in atoms.

Materials Sciences

New Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough in Carbon-Nitride Family

A team headed by chemist Dr. Michael J. Bojdys at Humboldt University Berlin recently synthesised a new organic semiconductor material in the carbon-nitride…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Carbon Infrared Emitters: A Game Changer for T-Shirt Printing

Lots of motives are applied as screen print inks on textile and need to be dried afterwards.

Life & Chemistry

NIH Experts Focus on ART-Free HIV Remission Research

ART involves taking a combination (usually three) of drugs daily, often combined into a single pill. ART has transformed the lives of people with HIV, enabling…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Recreate Blood-Brain Barrier Defect Outside the Body

The blood-brain barrier acts as a gatekeeper by blocking toxins and other foreign substances in the bloodstream from entering brain tissue and damaging it. It…

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene-Infused Gallium Nitride Enhances Electronic Devices

They applied a layer of graphene to gallium nitride, a commonly used semiconductor. The graphene is made of a single layer of atoms, while the gallium nitride…

Health & Medicine

New Hydrogel Targets Nitric Oxide for Arthritis Relief

Nitric oxide (NO) prevents high blood pressure and artery plaque build-up in our body. However, its duplicity is shown when it causes serious inflammatory…

Information Technology

AI’s Role in Quick Diagnosis of Rare Diseases

Many patients with rare diseases go through lengthy trials and tribulations until they are correctly diagnosed. “This results in a loss of valuable time that…

Earth Sciences

The influence of the mosquito – Will malaria spread in Europe and the Mediterranean as a result of climate change?

One aspect of climate change that has received little attention in the public debate so far is the spread of what are called vector-borne diseases, namely,…

Life & Chemistry

Elephant Shark Insights: Key to Understanding Human Physiology

The mineralocortoid receptor (MR) regulates water and sodium transport throughout cells and tissues, which is critical for controlling blood pressure and so,…

Life & Chemistry

Biomarker Identifies Cancerous Potential in Pancreatic Cysts

Pancreatic cancer kills more than 45,000 people in the U.S. each year, mostly due to the fact that it is detected too late for surgery to remove and halt the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Cost-Effective Advanced Electronic Packaging for Small Batches

Research always means trying things out and daring to do new things. Research institutes, universities, and SMEs do not produce in large batches, but rather…

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