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Breakthrough Poop Test for Detecting Liver Cirrhosis

For the estimated 100 million U.S. adults and children living with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), whether or not they have liver cirrhosis, or…

Physics & Astronomy

New Optical Methods Enhance Visualization of Nano Objects

High-resolution optical microscopy methods promise breakthroughs in materials science, biology, and medicine. Today, their possibilities basically reach those…

Life & Chemistry

New Targetable Vulnerability Discovered in Breast Cancer Cells

In breast cancer, FGFR4 is especially overexpressed in the subset, where cell proliferation is driven by another related signaling receptor, HER2. Targeted…

Physics & Astronomy

New Fiber Lasers: EU Supports Leibniz Institut Research Project

The European Union is supporting the project, in which research institutions from Spain, Poland and Great Britain cooperate, as part of the “FET Open”…

Process Engineering

3D Hollow Structures: Quartz Glass Innovations for Longevity

Quartz glass is the preferred material for applications that require long-term use because of its high chemical and mechanical stability and excellent optical…

Life & Chemistry

Designer Organelles: Engineering Synthetic Proteins in Cells

A research team led by biophysical chemist Professor Edward Lemke has engineered a designer organelle in a living mammalian cell in a new complex biological…

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BAM Unveils Integrated Test Method at Hannover Messe

The new measuring method enables the use of laser scanning technology with temperatures of up to 1700 degrees Celsius for the first time. Consequently, the…

Life & Chemistry

Grid cells create “treasure map” in rat brain

A team of scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) now shows that grid cells go beyond providing simple spatial coordinates:…

Information Technology

Enhancing Cybersecurity for Embedded Devices in Daily Life

We have a growing number of devices around us in our everyday life that contain small embedded computer systems. Many of these devices are able to access the…

Life & Chemistry

30 Genes Linked to Crime Scene Schizophrenia Uncovered

The research team led by Prof. Alex Schier, Director of the Biozentrum, University of Basel, and currently group leader at Harvard University in Cambridge,…

Physics & Astronomy

Rhine-Main Universities undertake research into transport processes in the tropopause

The Initiative Funding for Research of the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) is currently supporting a cross-university project in the field of meteorology and…

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Edge-based 5G core networks for robot control in factories

3.1 million* industrial robots are expected to be in use in factories worldwide next year. Their networking, control and maintenance present the industry with…

Life & Chemistry

New study on the use of the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) in the energy sector started

The study will analyze the use of the potent greenhouse gas SF6 and of F-gas free alternatives in medium voltage grids. The study is intended to support the…

Physics & Astronomy

Let's not make big waves

Due to its potential to make computers faster and smartphones more efficient, spintronics is considered a promising concept for the future of electronics. In a…

Life & Chemistry

Engineers craft the basic building block for electrospun nanofibers

Smitha Rao, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Michigan Tech, led the research. She said the approach is innovative, “we're coming at this…

Physics & Astronomy

Data flows from NASA's TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet

In fact, asteroseismologists – stellar astronomers who study seismic waves (or “starquakes”) in stars that appear as changes in brightness – often provide…

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