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- Engineered bacterium produces 1,3-diaminopropane
A Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) repor... - Relationship between Crystal structure and magnetism decoded
A team at HZB has carried out the first detailed study of how magnetic and geometric ordering mutually influence one another in crystalline samples of spinel. To achieve this, the group synthesised... - First comprehensive microplastic survey in the Baltic Sea
A research team from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) headed out on the research vessel POSEIDON for the first comprehensive survey of microplastic in the Baltic Sea, ... - NO2 Air Pollution Increases Allergenicity in Ragweed Pollen
Pollen of the common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) has higher concentrations of allergen when the plant is exposed to nitrogen dioxide exhaust gases, according to findings of scientists of Helm... - Researchers determined the structure of the catalytic active state of [NiFe] hydrogenase
Hydrogen is known as an ultimate clean energy source and is thus discussed as a future sustainable energy carrier. In nature the enzyme 'Hydrogenase' catalyzes the reversible conversion of molecula... - Researchers visualize antibiotic substances and their bacterial producers simultaneously
Microbes are the oldest and most successful organisms on the planet, and they communicate and interact using chemistry as their language. While research of the past decades has uncovered fascinatin... - A more realistic risk assessment of nanomaterials in the environment
A wide range of industrially synthesized nanomaterials are present in products we use daily and, in the meantime, are part of our everyday life. Due to their exceptional properties (e. g., increase... - Correlation between Microscopic Structures and Macroscopic Properties of Colloids
Researchers from Jülich have, together with colleagues from Austria, Italy, Colombia and the USA, developed a model system for so-called soft colloids. The model gives us a better understanding of ... - New X-ray method for 3D-images of soft tissue developed
Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) have developed a miniature X-ray source with la... - Microbial Companions of Humans and Animals Are Highly Specialized
Humans and animals are never alone. Everyone is host to over two thousand different species of microbes, of which most colonize our bodies only after we are born. One would assume that the generali... - Camera for the Nano-Cosmos by combinin near-field optical microscopy and ultra-fast spectroscopy
To gain even deeper insights into the smallest of worlds, the thresholds of microscopy must be expanded further. Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the TU Dresden, in... - Merck Secures All Antitrust Approvals for Sigma-Aldrich Acquisition
Merck announced that approvals have been secured from all relevant jurisdictions for its planned acquisition of U.S.-based life science company Sigma-Aldrich. Unconditional approval from Brazil's C... - The Macromolecular Shredder for RNA in the Cell Nucleus
Scientists of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, have shown how the nuclear compartment of the cell uses a specific version of the RNA exosome, a m... - Linking cell-population to whole-fish growth
Before new chemicals can be approved, environmental risk assessments have to be carried out. But conventional toxicity testing with live fish is costly and time-consuming, and new substances contin... - Proving nanoparticles in sunscreen products
Loads of cosmetics like sunscreen lotions contain titanium dioxide. These nanoparticles are contentious. Experts suspect they may have harmful effects on people and the environment. But it is diffi... - Extremely strong and heat-resistant
ETH researchers have produced a thin film and extremely fine pillars from a new class of alloys made of multiple finely distributed elements. The material is resistant to extreme pressures and temp... - Fuel and chemicals from steel plant exhaust gases
Carbon monoxide-rich exhaust gases from steel plants are only being reclaimed to a minor extent as power or heat. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a new recycling process for this materially u... - Electron Spin Resonance useful for exploring tiny objects
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large machines that make bulk measurements... - Gallium nitride: The new silicon?
An exotic material called gallium nitride (GaN) is poised to become the next semiconductor for power electronics, enabling much higher efficiency than silicon. In 2013, the Department of Energy (DO... - Flavouring substance considered a safety concern
The flavouring substance p-Mentha-1,8-dien-7-al (also called "Perilla aldehyde") has been shown to be genotoxic (damaging to DNA) in a new study on animals, evaluated by EFSA's experts. Under EFSA'... - New direction in sustainable catalyst design
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new approach to structuring the catalysts used in essential reactions in the chemical and energy fields. The advance offers a pathway for ...