Sophisticated mix of methods offers improved structure analysis – Young scientist from the University of Regensburg awarded the Lieselotte Templeton Prize of the German Crystallographic Society. Sometimes scientists have to accept that a method they have used for years fails under certain conditions. Such a failure calls for a careful analysis of the shortcomings and their subsequent elimination. An international team from the University of Regensburg, the University of Durham and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has now done precisely this….
Research to develop and deploy a world-first diagnostic test that could accelerate malaria eradication has been bolstered with over $1.3 million in new funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Research to develop and deploy a world-first diagnostic test that could accelerate malaria eradication has been bolstered with over $1.3 million in new funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Two WEHI projects have received funding to clinically translate a test that can detect…
Herbert W. Franke, a pioneer of computer art who anticipated the metaverse, passed away on July 16 at the age of 95. About 80 of the most renowned generative artists, photographers, poets, and virtual world builders working today were invited by art meets science – Foundation Herbert W. Franke to honor his life and work. A percentage of the proceeds from the sales is donated by each artist. The artists’ donations will be used by the art meets science –…
Millions in funding for the Kiel-based CAPTN initiative. Reduction of CO2 emissions from shipping through innovations in Schleswig-Holstein Participants: alliance comprising the Kiel University, Fachhochschule Kiel – University of Applied Sciences, thyssenkrupp Marine Systems GmbH, DSN, Ministry for Energy Transition, Climate Protection, Environment and Nature, Wissenschaftszentrum Kiel and 50 other partners The use of green hydrogen, hydrogen derivatives or other renewable energy sources will contribute significantly towards making shipping in the Kiel Canal as well as the North Sea and…
EU funds research project on cell-based heart repair with 6.1 million euros. Chronic heart failure – also known as cardiac insufficiency in medicine – is the most common reason for hospital admissions and one of the most frequent causes of death in the western world. In Germany alone, four million people suffer from this disease. Often a heart attack precedes, as a consequence the heart muscle is no longer supplied with blood and thus oxygen and the organ is irrevocably…
– solar cells and LEDs – with funding to expand scientists’ team. Chemistry expert secures Humboldt Foundation funding to recruit scientists for nanomaterials research. An expert in nanomaterials who is based in Swansea and Germany has secured around £250,000 of funding from the Humboldt Foundation to recruit early-career scientists to join his research team. Professor Christian Klinke, who works jointly at the University of Rostock in northern Germany and in Swansea University chemistry department, has been appointed as a Henriette…
German-Canadian research collaboration. On July 1st, 2022, Professor Peter H. Seeberger, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI) will welcome his chemist colleague Professor Andrei K. Yudin. Within the next six months, they will conduct joint research on the automated synthesis of highly active substances. Yudin is to receive this year’s Konrad Adenauer Research Award. Seeberger and Yudin are united by one goal: they want to bring their results from fundamental research to application and in…
Dresden physicist wins prize for world’s first image of a 3D magnetic field. A Dresden research team led by solid-state physicist Dr. Axel Lubk has succeeded in imaging the magnetic field of tiny magnetic nanovortices – called skyrmions – in three dimensions with a resolution of seven millionths of a millimeter. This is the first time ever that this has been achieved. For their pioneering work, the scientists have now been honored by the European Microscopy Society (EMS) with the…
EU funds research project to elucidate pathological cardiac remodelling caused by cancer drugs with around 2.5 million euros. Heart failure is one of the most common causes of death worldwide. The disease, known in medicine as cardiac insufficiency, affects about four million people in Germany. One of the main causes are remodelling processes in the heart muscle, which can be triggered for various reasons – for example, by the side effects of chemotherapy or an infection with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2….
The contractile and elastic properties of the heart are finely tuned. This is a prerequisite for the cardiac cycle and efficient adaptation. At the MDC, Michael Gotthardt investigates the underlying molecular and biomechanical mechanisms. He is awarded with an ERC Advanced Grant for this work. MERAS is the acronym on the recently approved project proposal. It stands for: ‘Mechanoregulation of alternative splicing’. “We would like to understand how the heart responds to environmental factors and adjusts its elastic properties such…
ERC Consolidator Grant for Laura De Laporte and the “HEARTBEAT” project. Scientist Laura De Laporte (DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials and RWTH Aachen University) has been awarded one of the most highly endowed research grants of the European Research Council (ERC): an ERC Consolidator Grant. This will fund the expansion of her research over five years. In her project “HEARTBEAT”, De Laporte and her team aim to grow vascularized, structured and beating human heart tissue in the laboratory….
The development of a topological laser network by a team of the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat is among the top ten nominations for the “Breakthrough of the Year Award“. On 24 September 2021, a paper appeared in the scientific journal Science that caused a sensation among experts. Israeli and German researchers from the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat presented a new development: a highly effective network of surface-emitting lasers only the size of a grain of sand that act as…
A team led by University of Arizona aerospace and mechanical engineers has been selected for the first round of funding from a national hypersonics consortium. The University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics awarded its first round of funding, totaling $25.5 million, to projects that advance the field of hypersonic flight, in which vehicles travel upwards of five times the speed of sound. Samy Missoum, a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Arizona, received $1.5 million to lead the development of…
With $750,000 in NASA funding, engineers work to mitigate and prevent defects in additively manufactured metal parts designed for use in extreme environments. In additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, a 3D printer deposits material onto a surface or mold, letting it solidify one layer at a time until a 3D object – as simple as a plastic cube or as complex as a metal jet engine component – takes shape. Unlike subtractive manufacturing, which involves carving an object…
Two UCSB scientists receive award to partner with Cisco’s new Quantum Research Team. A new collaboration between UC Santa Barbara researchers and Cisco Systems aims to push the boundaries of quantum technologies. Assistant professors Yufei Ding and Galan Moody have received research awards from the technology giant to work with its new Quantum Research Team, which was formed to pursue the research and development required to turn quantum hardware, software and applications into broadly used technologies. “We are pleased to support the research by…
Grant enables study of plants as mRNA factories. The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories. Messenger RNA or mRNA technology, used in COVID-19 vaccines, works by teaching our cells to recognize and protect us against infectious diseases. One of the challenges with this new technology is that it must be kept cold…
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