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• Green tea catechins promote oxidative stress
  Green tea is seen as healthy and promotes a longer life supposedly due to its high level of antioxidants. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now cast doubt on previous assumptions about how these ingre...
• Infrared technology - seeing the world through different eyes
  Short-wave infrared light (SWIR) is useful for many things: It helps sort out damaged fruit and inspecting silicon chips, and it enables night vision devices with sharp images. But SWIR cameras hav...
• New material could pave way for better, safer batteries
  In pursuit of batteries that deliver more power and operate more safely, researchers are working to replace the liquids commonly used in today's lithium ion batteries with solid materials. Now, a r...
• Clarifying a previously unknown resistance mechanism of staphylococci
  The skin bacterium Staphylococcus aureus often develops antibiotic resistance. It can then cause infections that are difficult to treat. Researchers at the University of Bonn have uncovered an inge...
• How acid damages teeth
  The University of Surrey and the School of Dentistry at the University of Birmingham have developed a new technique to improve understanding of how acid damages teeth at the microstructural level. ...
• Inhibiting parasite proliferation
  Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have identified a chemical compound that may be suitable as an active agent against several different unicellular parasites. Among these are the patho...
• Artificial intelligence helps to find new natural substances
  Bioinformatics team at Friedrich Schiller University Jena develops method that enables fast and confident identification of previously unknown small moleculesMore than a third of all medicines avai...
• A highly potent antibody against SARS-CoV-2
  Scientists at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and EPFL have discovered a highly potent monoclonal antibody that targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and is effective at neutralizing all variant...
• Crafting a "sponge" for adsorbing and desorbing gas molecules
  A group of researchers led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and the University of Tokyo have created an unusual material - a soft crystal made of molecules known as a...
• AI approach for heterogeneous catalysis
  A tailored artificial intelligence approach can be applied to model catalysis. It highlights the underlying physicochemical processes, and accelerates catalyst design. Artificial intelligence (A...
• More effective microscopy making it easier to research diseases
  Studying cells and their components is a cornerstone of biomedicine and pharmaceutical research and can provide information about the health of cells, responses to different medications or deviatio...
• Using plant physiological stable oxygen isotope models to counter food fraud
  Fraudulent practices in food production, especially false claims of geographical origin, cause billions of dollars in economic damage every year. Botanists at the University of Basel have now devel...
• How mussels make a powerful underwater glue
  The mussels' beards (which cooks remove before preparing them) are made up of byssal threads and are used to help keep the mussels tethered in place. At the end of each thread is a disc-shaped plaq...
• Artificial sweeteners may influence gut microbiota
  Artificial sweeteners have increasingly replaced sugar in many foods and beverages. However, their long-term health benefits remain unclear. Now, a team of BGU scientists led by Prof. Ariel Kushmar...
• 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  On behalf of the American Chemical Society (ACS), President H. N. Cheng, Ph.D., congratulates the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Benjamin List, Ph.D., Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforsch...
• New x-ray Raman spectroscopy method promises spectacular insights into the interior of planets
  At the heart of planets, extreme states are to be found: temperatures of thousands of degrees, pressures a million times greater than atmospheric pressure. They can therefore only be explored direc...
• A way to track how micro- and nanoplastic particles spread through the environment
  Man-made plastic pollutes the environment. When broken down into micro- and nanoparticles, it poses an increasing problem not only for the oceans and their inhabitants, but also for lakes, rivers a...
• Breakthrough in Magnonics? Discovery of a New Property in Quantum Materials
  Jülich/Garching/Grenoble, 13. September 2021. Scientists from Jülich, together with colleagues from Germany, France and China, have discovered a new property in quantum materials offering great pot...
• New world record in materials research - X-ray microscopy with 1000 tomograms per second
  Tomoscopy is an imaging method in which three-dimensional images of the inside of materials are calculated in rapid succession. Now a team led by HZB physicist Francisco Garca Moreno has achieved a...
• Bioengineering meets hepatitis B: Researchers design promising novel therapeutic candidates
  Researchers have designed antibodies as novel therapeutic candidates for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma. Their study in human cell cultures and in living mice sho...
• Eppendorf Award 2022: Call for Entries
  The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators, endowed with 20,000 EUR, is granted annually to an early career scientist in Europe for outstanding contributions to biomedical research. It ha...