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• Newly discovered abilities of a well-known laboratory fungus
  The great diversity of fungi is often considered in plant research primarily because of their potential as plant pests. However, the range of interactions between fungi and plants is much wider, ra...
• Turning bacteria into bioplastic factories
  In a world overrun by petroleum-based plastics, scientists are searching for alternatives that are more sustainable, more biodegradable and far less toxic to the environment. Two new studies by bio...
• On the way to a skin organ model with immune cells
  Mosquitoes, bugs and ticks bite humans in the skin. These vectors can infect humans with pathogens that cause diseases such as malaria, dengue fever or Chagas disease. From an immunological point o...
• Synthetic polymers against fungal infections
  Combined with antifungal drugs, synthetic polymers are particularly effective against Candida albicans. This was discovered by a German-Australian research team, who also elucidated the mechanism o...
• When an ion met an atom
  When two particles collide, they normally fly off in opposite directions, like billiard balls on a smooth table. But in a recent physics experiment at the Weizmann Institute of Science, instead of ...
• A new method to synthesize the popular fragrance Ambrox
  Prof. Benjamin List's research group at Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung has developed an elegant method to produce the popular fragrance Ambrox. The researchers published their results with...
• Revolutionary discovery: first isolated Nitrene
  Scientists at the University of Bremen have successfully isolated a nitrene for the first time, which was previously considered impossible to isolate. The discovery was published in the renowned "S...
• 3D Laser Printing with Bioinks from Microalgae
  Microalgae such as the diatom Odontella aurita and the green alga Tetraselmis striata are especially suitable as "biofactories" for the production of sustainable materials for 3D laser printing due...
• Methane degradation without oxygen in lakes
  Methane-oxidizing bacteria could play a greater role than previously thought in preventing the release of climate-damaging methane from lakes, researchers from Bremen report. They also show who is ...
• New Insights Into Exsolution Catalyst Fabrication Published
  Catalysts made from solid materials are used to produce approximately 90 percent of industrially important chemicals. A key type of such catalysts consists of nano-sized metal particles finely disp...
• Vastly increased potentials for oxidation with modified solvents
  A team of scientists headed by Professor Ingo Krossing, Professor of Molecular and Coordination Chemistry at the University of Freiburg's Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, has succee...
• New method to combine conventional internet with the quantum internet
  Four researchers from the Institute of Photonics at Leibniz University Hannover have developed a new transmitter-receiver concept for transmitting entangled photons over an optical fibre. This b...
• New X-ray world record: Looking inside a microchip with 4 nanometre precision
  In a collaboration with EPFL Lausanne, ETH Zurich and the University of Southern California researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have used X-rays to look inside a microchip with higher pr...
• 'Tiny Biome Tales': Playing a Game to Understand the Human Microbiome
  Countless microorganisms live on and in the human body - including viruses, bacteria and fungi. Together, they weigh two kilograms and are essential for our health: they support our immune system, ...
• Understanding microplastics - with high-speed cameras
  Microplastics are a global problem: they end up in rivers and oceans, they accumulate in living organisms and disrupt entire ecosystems. How tiny particles behave in a current is difficult to descr...
• New paths for artificial nanofactories
  Artificial nanofactories are tiny workshops made from the body's own molecules that are precisely designed and built according to a blueprint. In the future, they could help to better identify dise...
• What gave the first molecules their stability?
  The origins of life remain a major mystery. How were complex molecules able to form and remain intact for prolonged periods without disintegrating? A team at ORIGINS, a Munich-based Cluster of Exce...
• Making PEM electrolysis cost-efficient and scalable
  Proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysis is considered the most promising way to produce green hydrogen. However, it is still not very economical at the moment. One reason: One of its key compon...
• The Next Generation of RNA Chips
  An international research team led by the University of Vienna has succeeded in developing a new version of RNA building blocks with higher chemical reactivity and photosensitivity. This can signif...
• Uniquely precise: New value for the half-life of samarium-146
  Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the Australian National University have re-determined the half-life of samarium-146 with great precision. The result fits perfectly with the data ...
• Precise Genetics: New CRISPR method enables efficient DNA modification
  The research group led by Prof. Markus Affolter at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has developed a new method that further improves the existing CRISPR/Cas technologies: it allows a more preci...
• Turnimng bacteria into cellulose-producing mini-factories
  ETH researchers have modified certain bacteria with UV light so that they produce more cellulose. The basis for this is a new approach with which the researchers generate thousands of bacterial var...