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Spiegelmers are a young group of promising pharmaceutical substances. They rely on the same building blocks as the nucleic acids RNA and DNA that fulfil various tasks in the organism - from storing... - NMR 'Fingerprinting' for Monoclonal Antibodies
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) have demonstrated the most precise method yet to measure the stru... - X-ray study images structural damage in lithium-ion batteries
Charging lithium-ion batteries too quickly can permanently reduce the battery capacity. Portions of the energy storage structure are thereby destroyed and deactivated. These structural changes have... - Scientists uncovered previously unknown quantum states inside atoms
In this study, scientists from European XFEL and the Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY examined the unknown quantum states in atoms of the noble gas xenon using DESY's X-ray las... - Measurements confirm position of lawrencium as final member of the actinide series
Thanks to a novel-type technique, a joint international research team has recently been able to measure lawrencium's first ionization energy. Lawrencium - element 103 - is a radioactive synthetic e... - Bonding behaviour of iron pentacarbonyl experimentally decoded
Following six years' work, an international team comprising eleven research institutions has been successful in observing precisely how light affects the outer electrons of a metallic compound and ... - New detection method for bacterial toxin "Bacillus cereus"
The Bacillus cereus bacteria is one of the potential causes of food poisoning. Indeed, a recent study in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry shows that this versatile pathogen produces 19 differ... - Agricultural waste could be used as biofuel
Straw-powered cars could be a thing of the future thanks to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). A new study pinpoints five strains of yeast capable of turning agricultural by-pro... - New silicon-based nanomaterials
Chemists from Brown University have found a way to make new 2-D, graphene-like semiconducting nanomaterials using an old standby of the semiconductor world: silicon. The researchers describe met... - Bioelectrochemical processes have the potential to one day replace petrochemistry
Researchers at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany, and the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, have found that the electrification of the white biotechnology is not me... - Predicting pesticide loads more accurately
Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME have developed software for Germany that calculates the concentration of pesticides/plant protection products i... - Temperature-controlled catalyst allows synthesis of molecular mirror images
Many chemical compounds exist as an image and a mirror image: they differ in their spatial orientation, like the left and right hand. The properties of these so-called chiral molecules are also oft... - How water molecules activate proteins
An international team of researchers from the CEA, the CNRS, the Institut Laue-Langevin, the Forschungszentrum Jülich, the University of California Irvine, the Australian Institute of Science and T... - Newly developed brewer's yeast helps optimizing cocoa fermentation process
The Barry Callebaut Group, VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), with the support of IWT (Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology-Flanders), manag... - Higher tumor rates through exposure to electromagnetic fields
Electromagnetic fields stimulate the growth of tumors in mice. This is the result of a new study by researchers from Jacobs University, which was commissioned by the Federal Office for Radiation Pr... - Microbial soil cleanup of leaked radioactive strontium and caesium ions at Fukushima
Proteins from salt-loving, halophilic, microbes could be the key to cleaning up leaked radioactive strontium and caesium ions from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant incident in Japan. The ... - Plumbonacrite revealed as intermediate in degradation of red lead
Red lead is most familiar to us in orange-red rustproof paint. Artists have treasured the brilliant color of this pigment for their paintings since ancient times. However, various ageing processes ... - Mid-IR frequency combs enable high resolution spectroscopy for sensitive gas sensing
A frequency comb source is a light source with a spectrum containing thousands of laser lines. The development of these sources has been revolutionary for fundamental science. It has allowed the co... - Semi-artificial chloroplasts to manufacture biotechnologically relevant products
An international research team wants to create semi-artificial chloroplasts for the manufacture of biotechnologically relevant products. For this purpose, they aim to modify the photosynthetic proc... - Successful recording of current in membrane channels of contracting cardiac cells
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in recording the current in membrane channels of contracting cardiac cells. To do this, the scientists combined an atomic force microscope with a widel... - Electron micrographs show that bacteria exchange nutrients via nanotubes
It is well-known that bacteria can support each others' growth and exchange nutrients. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and their colleagues at the univ... - Agricultural insecticides pose a global risk to surface water bodies
Streams within approx. 40% of the global land surface are at risk from the application of insecticides. These were the results from the first global map to be modelled on insecticide runoff to surf... - Losing one electron switches magnetism on in dichromium
An international team of scientists from Berlin, Freiburg and Fukuoka has provided the first direct experimental insight into the secret quantum life of dichromium. Whereas in its normal state the ... - Researchers developed a cost-effective and efficient rival for platinum
A challenge that comes with the increased use of renewable energy is how to store electric energy. Platinum has traditionally been used as the electrocatalyst in electrolysers that store electric e... - Monitor the metabolism in the bacteria by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy
Bacteria are masters in adapting to their environment. This adaptability contributes to the bacteria's survival inside their host. Researchers at the Vetmeduni Vienna now demonstrated that the bact...