Young stars ejecting plasma could give us clues into the Sun’s past Kyoto, Japan — Down here on Earth we don’t usually notice, but the Sun is frequently ejecting huge masses of plasma into space. These are called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). They often occur together with sudden brightenings called flares, and sometimes extend far enough to disturb Earth’s magnetosphere, generating space weather phenomena including auroras or geomagnetic storms, and even damaging power grids on occasion. Scientists believe that when…
A team of scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), and the…
During a joint research project scientists at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Konstanz developed an ECM with functional groups (clickECM) which is covalently and thus firmly bonded to surfaces via bioorthogonal ligation reactions. The fixed bonding obtained through the click reaction also ensures that the clickECM coating, e.g. when used for cell culture vessels, withstands extensive washing. The coating is highly stable and can be produced economically without any costly purification or isolation processes. The clickECM only differs from a natural ECM in terms of the introduced functional group.
Scientists of the University of Duisburg-Essen developed a platform, which facilitates the detection of deletions and insertions as well as point mutations in target genes from a variety of sources against a huge background of wild type alleles, making a clear “Yes” or “No” output possible and thereby simplifying therapeutic decisions.
Neither expensive and complicated equipment nor specialized personnel is needed. The assay is robust and applicable in all laboratories equipped with an RT-PCR machine. It can easily be established for point of care (PoC) purposes.
This sensitive technology now enables clinicians to be independent of the scarce resource “tissue biopsy”. By using blood (ctDNA, cfDNA or CTC) it opens new non-invasive possibilities for monitoring the mutation status of patients before and during treatment as well as to detect disease relapse early. A European and a US patent have already been granted, other applications are pending.
While zinc sulfide nanoparticles – a type of quantum dot that is a semiconductor – have many potential applications, high cost and limited availability have…
LHA 120-N55, or N55 as it is usually known, is a glowing gas cloud in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about 163…
Mountains aren't the first thing that hit you when you look at images of Jupiter's innermost moon, Io. But once you absorb the fact that the moon is slathered…
Invention is used for additive manufactur-ing of parts out of amorphous or partly crystalline metals with low melting point. This is done with an extrusion method. The used material, metal granulate, is heated up to the glass transition temperature and partly up to the melting temperature. By doing so, the material is moved into a thermoplastic state. After heating, the material can then be extruded by pressure and is selectively placed onto a building platform. The system described in this invention is able to manufacture hollow constructions along with complex parts, all with good mechanical properties. Due to the generating of the part onto the building platform it is not necessary to clean or post process the part as it would be with other methods.
The new method creates truly random numbers with less computational effort than other methods, which could facilitate significantly higher levels of security…
Van der Waals forces act between non-polar atoms and molecules. Although they are very weak in comparison to chemical bonds, they are hugely significant in…
Space is a better vacuum than any we can create on Earth, but it does contain some particles — and it's bustling with activity. It overflows with energy and a…
The images were taken on April 4, 2016, roughly two weeks after the icy visitor made its closest approach to Earth on March 21. The comet traveled within 3.3…
Light can conduct the play of atoms and molecules in the microcosm. Humans manage to interfere with this play. Researchers from the Laboratory of Attosecond…
Professor Sergio Montenegro and his fellow researcher Tobias Mikschl have reason to be happy: A few days ago, the two computer scientists from the…
The research team, comprising Dr. Leonhard Mayrhofer, Dr. Gianpietro Moras, Dr. Narasimham Mulakaluri, and group manager Prof. Michael Moseler from the…
Our standard model of the smallest bits of matter rests upon evidence gathered from particle accelerators and collider experiments. A team of physicists from…
Advances in neurosciences are linked to neuron stimulation. Our technology presents the use of Schottky miniaturized photovoltaic cells for this goal, showing remarkable advantages respect stablished techniques, as Patch clamp or Optogenetics.
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