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• Fighting chemical pollution: water purification using algae
  Europe's water bodies are in poor condition: more than half of them are heavily polluted with chemicals. This is hardly surprising - every day, up to 70,000 different chemicals are used in Europe's...
• Testing the effect of thousands of compounds on cellular metabolism
  Researchers at the University of Basel are able to test the effects of more than 1,500 compounds on cell metabolism in parallel. Their analysis also led to the discovery of previously unknown mecha...
• Microporous crystals for greater food safety
  A research team led by Paolo Falcaro has developed a microporous crystal compound that signals whether protein-rich foods are spoilt. The ERC grant is now being used to explore practical applicatio...
• Artificial photosynthesis decoded: how carbon nitride splits water
  Scientists have long sought to understand the exact mechanism behind water splitting by carbon nitride catalysts. For the first time, Dr. Paolo Giusto and his team captured the step-by-step interac...
• How to unlock the potential of brine valorisation
  Seawater desalination plants produce significant volumes of brine as a byproduct, a highly concentrated salt solution that is often considered waste. However, brines contain a wealth of valuable ra...
• New process for polarity inversion of chemical compounds for precise drug synthesis
  Researchers at Leipzig University have developed a new process for reversing the polarity of chemical compounds, also known as umpolung, for the precise synthesis of pharmaceuticals. This innov...
• On the way to a "new" second
  The next generation of atomic clocks "ticks" with the frequency of a laser. This is about 100 000 times faster than the microwave frequencies of the caesium clocks which are generating the second a...
• Developing innovative approaches to combat new and re-emerging viruses
  The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the immense risk potential posed by emerging and re-emerging viruses. There are neither approved vaccines nor specific therapies for many of these viruses. ...
• Exploring the limits of the "sland of stability" more precisely
  A team of researchers from GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the supe...
• Development of fungal resistance: Hope for more effective treatment
  An often-overlooked mechanism of gene regulation may be involved in the failure of antifungal drugs in the clinic. This has been discovered by a German-Austrian research team led by the Leibniz Ins...
• New avenues for the treatment of multi-resistant pathogens
  Antibiotics are a double-edged sword - they should be as toxic as possible to pathogenic bacteria while being harmless to the cells of the human body. An international research team led by the Helm...
• 3D-printed, biodegradable fungal battery
  A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what Empa researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, biodegradable fungal battery. The living battery could supply power to s...
• New Fuel Technologies for Fusion Power Plants
  By producing virtually unlimited amounts of energy, nuclear fusion could solve many energy supply problems. But its technical implementation is complex, and key components of future power plants ar...
• Interpreting traces of arsenic in rain
  On the Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees, ETH Zurich researchers have analysed particulate matter, clouds and rainwater for traces of arsenic. Using newly developed measurement methods, they have elucida...
• Microbes and minerals: How microorganisms accelerate calcification
  Microorganisms are everywhere and have been influencing the Earth's environment for over 3.5 billion years. Researchers from Germany, Austria and Taiwan have now deciphered the role they play in th...
• Better Performance of Lanthanum Strontium Manganite-Based Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells
  Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOECs) are efficient electrochemical devices that convert electrical energy into chemical energy by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, or carbon dioxide into ...
• New chemistry for the engineering of covalent RNA complexes
  Researchers from the University of Innsbruck have developed a new method for covalently labeling RNA in the cell. In the journal Nature Chemical Biology, they show how it can be used to map RNA mov...
• A New Approach for Effective Low-Temperature Thermoelectric Cooling
  Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, in collaboration with Chongqing University and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, have achieved a breakthrou...
• New protective coating can improve battery performance
  A research team at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has developed a new sustainable process that can be used to improve the electrochemical performance of lithium-ion batteries. Initial tests of hig...
• Bioreactor Allows Automated Long-Term Culturing of Stem Cells
  Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are considered as a promising tool in medicine, with the potential to unlock treatments for many health conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases a...
• Scientists Find a Vulnerability in Antibiotic Resistance Mechanism
  Superbugs, bacteria that are immune to multiple antibiotics, pose a great challenge to modern medicine. Researchers from the B CUBE - Center for Molecular Bioengineering at TUD Dresden University o...
• Why AI models in the Life Sciences often fail in practice
  Artificial intelligence (AI) based on machine learning offers opportunities for the life sciences. However, problems often arise in practice. One cause is data leakage, the illicit spillover of inf...