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The Newcastle University team reveal how the removal of certain lipids from the outer membrane may provide a vulnerability for gram-negative bacteria. They propose that this system could be exploit... - Heavy elements in neutron star mergers detected
Central predictions by GSI scientists on the formation of heavy elements such as gold and platinum in the universe have now been observed astrophysically. For the first time gravitational waves of ... - Microbes leave 'fingerprints' on Martian rocks
Scientists around Tetyana Milojevic from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna are in search of unique biosignatures, which are left on synthetic extraterrestrial minerals by microbi... - Capturing Methane for use as fuel or a chemical feedstock.
Many oil wells burn off methane - the largest component of natural gas - in a process called flaring, which currently wastes 150 billion cubic meters of the gas each year and generates a staggering... - Hokusai's blue, cellulose nanofibers join forces to clean up disaster areas
By combining the same Prussian blue pigment used in the works of popular Edo-period artist Hokusai and cellulose nanofiber, a raw material of paper, a University of Tokyo research team succeeded in... - Nanomaterial can extract hydrogen fuel from seawater
It's possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly. UCF researcher Yang Yang has come up with ... - Medical-grade bio-glue inspired by slugs sticks to biological surfaces without toxicity
Anyone who has ever tried to put on a Band-Aid® when their skin is damp knows that it can be frustrating. Wet skin isn't the only challenge for medical adhesives - the human body is full of blood, ... - 10-second HIV test linked to mobile phones
The University of Surrey, working with colleagues at University College London, the Africa Health research Institute (South Africa), OJ-Bio (Newcastle), QV (holdings (Netherlands) and the Japan Rad... - Neural networks carry out chemical simulations in record time
Researchers at the Universities of Vienna and Göttingen have succeeded in developing a method for predicting molecular infrared spectra based on artificial intelligence. These chemical "fingerprint... - Filtering molecules from the water or air with nanomembranes
Free-standing carbon membranes that are a millionth of a millimetre thin: these are a special research field of Professor Dr. Armin Gölzhäuser from Bielefeld University and his research group. The... - First large scale study of cocaine users leads to breakthrough in drug testing
Scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a rapid and highly sensitive fingerprint test that can take just seconds to confirm whether someone has used cocaine. This new breakthrough, ... - New analysis explains role of defects in metal oxides
Sometimes things that are technically defects, such as imperfections in a material's crystal lattice, can actually produce changes in properties that open up new kinds of useful applications. New r... - Production of drop-in fuel by combined microbial and electrochemical conversion
Researchers at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Tübingen, Cornell University, and Deutsche Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ) have shown that the combination of mi... - Multifunctional nano-sized drug carriers developed
Nano-sized carrier systems find medical application to improve pharmacologic properties of bioactive agents. For many therapeutic approaches, it is important that the carrier system can stably inco... - Radioactive Metal Complexes for Tumour Diagnosis and Therapy
A team under the direction of chemist Prof. Dr Peter Comba is investigating radioactive metal complexes for use in the diagnosis and treatment of tumours. In their recent studies at Heidelberg Univ... - First imaging of free nanoparticles in lab experiment
In a joint research project, scientists from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), the Technische Universität Berlin and the University of Rostock have man... - Identifying active sites on catalysts
Chemistry live: Using a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) were able for the very first time to witness in detail the activity of catalysts durin... - Identification of a key molecule for the neurotransmitter release in synapses
The contact areas between nerve cells are called synapses. What happens there lies at the heart of communication between nerve cells. Communication starts with the release of chemical messengers kn... - Holy water: not as clean as hoped
Is holy water more dangerous than useful? What is the result when large numbers of people dip their fingers in the font? These questions were behind a recent scientific experiment. Although holy wa... - Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award 2017 for the development of DNA-based nanodevices
Professor Francesco Ricci from the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy, will receive the 2017 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science. The Italian chemist will receive the recognitio... - Why some Listeria strains survive good food hygiene standards
Despite high standards of cleanliness and hygiene in food industry, bacteria such as Listeria monocytogenes can still be found in the food processing environment. In a study published in Applied an... - New receptor found on scavenger cells
Adenoviral infections have a mild disease progression in healthy people, but it can be dangerous for immunocompromised people. If a patient is infected with the virus and gets a bacterial infection... - Faster, more precise, more stable: Study optimizes graphene growth
Each atomic layer thin, tear-resistant, and stable. Graphene is seen as the material of the future. It is ideal for e.g. producing ultra-light electronics or highly stable mechanical components. Bu... - More inflexible than imagined
Oligosaccharides - chains of sugar building blocks - are some of the most important molecules in living creatures. They make up a large part of the surface of cells and contribute to the immune sys... - Nanomaterial wrap for improved tissue imaging
Researchers at Tokai University describe in Advanced Materials how wrapping biological tissue in a nanosheet of a particular organic material results in high-quality microscopy images. Application...