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- More visibility for innivative women in science
Shedding more light on the innovative work of women and their achievements in the scholarly context is the focus of a research project led by Prof. Dr Christiane Schwieren. A researcher at the Alfr... - Building better enzymes - by breaking them down
Enzymes have the potential to transform the chemical industry by providing green alternatives to a slew of processes. These proteins act as biological catalysts, and with the help of molecular engi... - A sugar cane pathogen is gearing up a new era of antibiotic discovery
The antibiotic, called albicidin, is produced by the bacterial plant pathogen Xanthomonas albilineans, which causes the devastating leaf scald disease in sugar cane. Albicidin is thought to be used... - New insights into the utilization of nanotechnology-based drugs
Novel drugs, such as vaccines against covid-19, among others, are based on drug transport using nanoparticles. Whether this drug transport is negatively influenced by an accumulation of blood prote... - Biomolecular analyses now have an expanded chemical toolkit
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in part for what can be a quite difficult problem: precisely altering one aspect of biomolecules without affecting the rest of the cell. Now, in a stud... - When bacteria no longer behave as single-celled organisms but as a collective
The electrical potential across the bacterial cell envelope indicates when bacteria no longer operate as individual cells but as a collective. Researchers at the University of Cologne's Institute f... - Underlying assumptions of air quality need to be refined
Long-term measurements in the urban area of Innsbruck, Austria, show that the fraction of ozone near the surface tends to be overestimated in atmospheric models. Consequently, a fundamental assumpt... - Promising active ingredient to combat multi-resistant bacteria
The hospital pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa requires the sugar-binding proteins LecA and LecB to form biofilms as well as to attach to and penetrate host cells. These so-called lectins are therefo... - Artificial nerve cells - almost like biological
Researchers at Linköping University (LiU) have created an artificial organic neuron that closely mimics the characteristics of biological nerve cells. This artificial neuron can stimulate natural n... - Abandoned mines may be long-term energy storage solutions
Renewable energy sources are central to the energy transition toward a more sustainable future. However, as sources like sunshine and wind are inherently variable and inconsistent, finding ways to ... - Open-source Library for Creating Polymer Property Databases
Physical property databases for polymers are now much easier to build from molecular dynamics simulations thanks to RadonPy, a new open-source library developed by researchers at the Institute of S... - New universal detection method for SARS-CoV-2
A JRC study presents a new versatile method conceived to detect present and future SARS-CoV-2 variants. All new circulating variants will be picked up more accurately in both clinical and wastewate... - Interrogating disease progression and cell processes in vivo and non-invasively
Do we simply ingest a diagnostic probiotic based on programmed ribonucleic acids to analyze the intestinal health from individual cells in the future? Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA... - Novel synthesis process for a sustainable use of small molecules
The reaction principle requires no expensive and toxic metals. In addition, it enables the production and subsequent transformation of a chemical reagent that was previously only known as an unstab... - Biodegradable polyester plastic with high mechanical stability
How can plastics be designed so they retain their desirable properties but at the same time can be more effectively recycled? This and other questions concerning the eco-friendliness of plastics ar... - Functionalized nanoparticles can be used to determine specific molecules
Functionalized nanoparticles could soon revolutionize point-of-care diagnostics. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg h... - Swapping recycling for a circular economy - a second chance for batteries
Used and damaged cars are often disposed of via energy-intensive scrapping processes - even when many of their parts are still fully functional. In the EKODA project, Fraunhofer researchers are dev... - New type of CRISPR gene scissors could advance molecular biology diagnostics
It is an unexpected discovery by scientists at the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg in cooperation with Benson Hill, Inc. (Missouri) and Utah State University in the U.S.: They have found a nuclease, w... - Ultra-thin solid electrolyte
Operational reliability, durability and high energy density: In these respects, solid-state batteries are superior in principle to conventional liquid electrolyte lithium-ion batteries. Some of the... - Electrocatalytic Emulsions for the Electrification of the Chemical Sector
The increasingly intensive and efficient use of renewable electricity is defined as a key enabler of the current energy transition toward a climate neutral energy-chemistry nexus. This electrificat... - How biomolecules react to UV light
A sophisticated experiment provides new insights into the ultrafast reaction of biomolecules when they are hit by energetic ultraviolet light in their natural environment. The team of DESY scientis... - Biotechnological yeast instead of crude oil - the way to renewable plastics
Viennese researchers from the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) and BOKU Vienna found a way to use the harmful greenhouse gas CO2 as a raw material for the production of industrial...