Medical diagnoses could be even more reliable and efficient with the use of biosensors, but researchers face great challenges. The sensors should be…
Many patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) are anxious of the shock delivered by the device to stop life-threatening ventricular…
How can chemical reactions be triggered by light, following the example of photosynthesis in nature?
Matter waves constitute a crucial feature of quantum mechanics, where particles have wave properties in addition to particle characteristics. This…
For vehicles with electric drive to become a lasting presence in society, there needs to be greater flexibility in charging options. To make use of charging…
A team led by the Freiburg biologists Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schamel and Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber conducted an experiment in which they controlled the duration of…
Changyong Cao, director of MSU's Soft Machines and Electronics Laboratory, led a team of scientists in creating highly stretchable supercapacitors for powering…
Published in the journal PNAS, the study paves the way for new treatments for cancer. The results of the work indicate that, in contrast to what was previously…
Global agriculture is facing major challenges. The world’s population is growing – to over nine billion people by 2050. While available farmland is declining…
Thanks to their ability to transform into any type of cell in the body, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells)** could make a key contribution to…
Imagine being able to shape a pulse of light in any conceivable manner–compressing it, stretching it, splitting it in two, changing its intensity or altering…
“In the worst case, the urinary retention caused by an obstruction of the urethra can result in damage to the kidneys and lungs prenatally,” says Dr. Alina…
If plants are injured, cells adjacent to the wound fill the gaps with their daughter cells. However, which cells divide to do the healing and how they manage…
Mobile elements or retrotransposons occupy more than half of the human genome. Once they were described as genomic parasites, but it is now realised that they…
Physicist Tracy Northup is currently researching the development of quantum internet at the University of Innsbruck. The American citizen builds interfaces…
Enzymes are the main catalysts in our body and are widely used in bioassays. In particular, peroxidase, which oxidizes transparent colorimetric substrates to…
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