Ever since Hermann Staudinger discovered the linear polymers in 1920, it has been a dream of synthetic scientists to extend the polymerization into the second…
With the aid of highly advanced microscopes and synchrotron sources, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have gained seminal insight into how…
Molluscan shells consist of a variety of complex mineral-organic composite ultrastructures. Surprisingly, in some cases, shells from distantly related species…
In a group of animals, who deals with new information coming from the environment? Researchers have discovered that the answer lies not in who, but in where:…
What started as a hallway conversation between colleagues is now an “engine for the discovery of new therapeutic targets in cells” thanks to Medicine by…
Around the world, approximately 300,000 heart valve operations are performed every year. Some 30,000 people receive a new heart valve implant every year in…
Protection of genetic information
Structured laser light has already opened up various different applications: it allows for precise material machining, trapping, manipulating or defined…
DNA is constructed of two strands, consisting of sugar molecules and phosphate groups. Between these two strands are nitrogen bases, the compounds which make…
All complex organisms are made up of cells that are in contact with each other or with structures in intercellular spaces. Cells have contact points on their…
The climatic phenomenon ‘El Niño/Southern Oscillation’ leads repeatedly in the Mesoamerican and Caribbean regions to natural catastrophes – extreme droughts…
Two-thirds of the 355 plant species studied are less common today than they used to be. “The species showing the steepest decline are not the endangered…
The body's defenses systems have to react quickly whenever pathogens enter the organism. Intruders are identified by white blood cells which pass on the…
Beekeepers have been losing an average of 30 percent of overwintered colonies for nearly 15 years. It is expensive to overwinter colonies in areas where winter…
A protective protein that can detect newly-made incomplete and hence potentially toxic protein chains in higher cells is found to have a relative in bacteria….
Cells consist of a multitude of molecular structures, some of them exhibiting a staggering complexity. Ribosomes, the protein factories of the cell, belong to…
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