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- Measurement chip detects Legionella
In an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, finding the exact source as quickly as possible is essential to preventing further infections. To date, a detailed analysis takes days. Researchers at the T... - Using light to turn yeast into biochemical factories
Researchers at Princeton University have now applied a similar method to controlling the metabolism, or basic chemical process, of a living cell. In a series of experiments, they used light to cont... - Novel lens enables microscopy with nanometer resolution
A novel lens offers scientists the sharpest X-ray images yet from the nano world. The device is made from alternating layers of tungsten carbide and silicon carbide and can focus hard X-rays into a... - Bio sensors for a better tracking of oil leaks
A researcher in Mississippi State's Bagley College of Engineering is designing new biosensors that can immediately detect issues in oil pipelines, preventing damaging leaks and maintaining the pipe... - Neutrons pave the way to accelerated production of lithium-ion cells
Developers from Bosch and scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are using neutrons to analyze the filling of lithium ion batteries for hybrid cars with electrolytes. Their experime... - 'Chemicals in our life' website informs consumers about chemicals
Are the chemicals used in tattoos safe? Will I get an allergic reaction if I dye my hair? Many consumers in Europe are concerned about the possible risks posed by chemicals in their lives - a 2016 ... - New way to limit antibiotic resistance spreading
One of the biggest current threats to global health is the rise of multi-drug resistant bacteria, caused by the spreading of antibiotic resistance amongst them. In an attempt to help fight this thr... - Soils can be a net sink of greenhouse gases
However, unless the use of fertilisers is adjusted to balance additional nitrogen inputs, any climate change mitigation benefit may be offset through higher nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from soil.... - Drug-producing bacteria possible with synthetic biology breakthrough
During this innovative study researchers discovered how to dynamically manage the allocation of essential resources inside engineered cells - advancing the potential of synthetically programming ce... - Spectroscopic thermometer for nanomaterials
A scientific team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide, or ... - Artificial and biological cells work together as mini chemical factories
Researchers have fused living and non-living cells for the first time in a way that allows them to work together, paving the way for new applications. The system, created by a team from Imperial Co... - New tool for the crystallisation of proteins
ETH researchers have developed a new method of crystallising large membrane proteins in order to determine their structure. This will be of benefit to biological research and the pharmaceutical ind... - Setting new standards in solids analysis
How badly plants are affected by contaminated soil, what the sea floor can reveal about past climate periods, or what yield an ore mine could deliver in future - an analysis of the chemical composi... - Novel spectroscopy technique reveals water molecule dance
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have developed the novel 2D TIRV spectroscopy technique to observe coupling between intramolecular and intermolecular vibrations that mak... - Easy printing of biosensors made of graphene
Cell-based biosensors can simulate the effect of various substances, such as drugs, on the human body in the laboratory. Depending on the measuring principle, though, producing them can be expensiv... - One for all: super-resolution microscopy with one universal nanobody
To make cellular structures easily accessible for super-resolution microscopy, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, the Natural and Medical Sciences Insti... - Rapid diagnosis of diseases with novel blood test
Prof. Dr. Jochen Guck, research group leader at the Biotechnology Center of TU Dresden (BIOTEC), together with medical colleagues from the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden and partneri... - Converting CO2 into usable energy
magine if carbon dioxide could easily be converted into usable energy. Every time you breathe or drive a motor vehicle, you would produce a key ingredient for generating fuels. Like photosynthesis ... - Removing fossil fuel subsidies will not reduce CO2 emissions as much as hoped
Fossil fuel subsidies amount to hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide, and removing them has been held up as a key answer to climate change mitigation. Unfortunately it is not the silver bullet... - Nanostructuring increases efficiency of metal-free photocatalysts by factor eleven
Polymeric carbon nitrides exhibit a catalytic effect in sunlight that can be used for the production of hydrogen from solar energy. However, the efficiency of these metal-free catalysts is extremel... - Largest molecular spin found close to a quantum phase transition
An international research team headed by Professor Dr Annie Powell, a chemist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Professor Dr Jürgen Schnack, a physicist at Bielefeld University, h... - Ethane and propane emissions have been underestimated
A new study in Nature Geoscience, led by Norway's Center for International Climate Research (CICERO) and including IIASA research, suggests that such revision could improve our understanding of rel...