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Marine Skin: Innovative Polymer for Tracking Animal Behavior

Marine Skin is a thin, flexible, lightweight polymer-based material with integrated electronics which can track an animal's movement and diving behavior and…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria use their enemy — phage — for 'self-recognition'

Recently, scientists discovered that cells can distinguish themselves from closely related competitors through the use of a virus, and the harboring of phage…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists propose new theory on Alzheimer's, amyloid connection

It has been more than 100 years since Alois Alzheimer, M.D., a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, first reported the presence of senile plaques in an…

Life & Chemistry

Research on TGN1412 – Fc:Fcγ receptor interaction: Strong binding does not mean strong effect

An ever increasing number of different monoclonal antibodies (mAb) are used to influence the immune system and to treat diseases, which are also constantly on…

Life & Chemistry

Radiolabelling Antibodies: A Fast Method for Breast Cancer Imaging

Radioactive antibodies are used in nuclear medicine as imaging agents for positron emission tomography (PET) – an imaging technique that improves cancer…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Gas Achieves Supersolid State: A Scientific Breakthrough

Supersolidity is a paradoxical state where the matter is both crystallized and superfluid. Predicted 50 years ago, such a counter-intuitive phase, featuring…

Life & Chemistry

New eDNA Tech Enhances Coral Reef Health Assessments

Underwater visual surveys are used widely in coral reef ecology and are an important part of any coral reef monitoring program. However, visual surveys are…

Physics & Astronomy

Jupiter-Sized Star Produces Unprecedented Superflare Event

Coolest and smallest star to produce a superflare found
Star is a tenth of the radius of our Sun
Researchers led by University of Warwick could only see…

Life & Chemistry

Automated Bio-Sample Analysis: Fast-Tracking Disease Detection

FROM CONVENTIONAL MICROFLUIDICS TO OPEN-SPACE MICROFLUIDICS

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Sanitized Siphons: Reducing Hospital Germs Effectively

About 800,000 – 900,000 people every year in Germany alone[1] suffer from nosocomial infections, i.e. infections that occur in connection with…

Physics & Astronomy

In Vivo Super-Resolution Imaging with Photoacoustic Tomography

However, by detecting ultrasonic waves, PACT cannot escape the doom that is faced by all wave-based imaging techniques: the diffraction of waves presents a…

Physics & Astronomy

First Detection of Helium Hydride Ion in Astrophysical Nebulae

Despite its importance in the history of the early Universe, HeH+ has so far escaped detection in astrophysical nebulae. Operating the GREAT far-infrared…

Life & Chemistry

Smart Contact Lenses Deliver Medicine and Sugar for Eye Care

When eye diseases are treated topically often only about five percent of the drug has an effect on the eye tissue. The German-Israeli research team would…

Information Technology

CubeSats Showcase Value in Scientific Research Missions

Only a few years ago, the astronomy and heliophysics communities were skeptical about whether CubeSats could reliably obtain scientific data. But these…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Neuron-Inspired Spintronics Devices Transform Information Tech

Today's information society is built on digital computers that have evolved drastically for half a century and are capable of executing complicated tasks…

Life & Chemistry

Better healing for eardrum injuries? – new adhesive structures for medical applications

More than 30 million people worldwide suffer from eardrum injuries every year. If inadequately treated, the resulting hearing loss can severely restrict the…

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