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Biotechnology Aug 7, 2024

Biotech potential set to soar with the help of digital technology

Microbes and fungi have long been nature's helpers in producing fine food, drinks and medicine, but new digital technologies could unlock far greater potential for the European biotech sector.

Molecular & Computational biology Aug 7, 2024

New nasal microbiome: Depriving multi-resistant bugs of iron

A research team led by Simon Heilbronner, Professor of Microbiology at LMU's Biocenter, has investigated how various bacteria that colonize the nasal cavity deal with the lack of iron there and interact with one another.

Optics & Photonics Aug 7, 2024

Metalenses phase characterization by multi-distance phase retrieval

Metalens is a kind of optical metasurface composed of metaatoms for manipulating incoming light's amplitude, phase, and polarization. Unlike traditional refractive lenses, metalens can modulate the wavefront from plane to ...

Biotechnology Aug 7, 2024

A new AI approach to protein design

EPFL researchers have developed a novel AI-driven model designed to predict protein sequences from backbone scaffolds, incorporating complex molecular environments. It promises significant advancements in protein engineering ...

Astronomy Aug 7, 2024

Precision measurements offer clues to magnetar's cosmic origin

An international team of astronomers has used a powerful array of radio telescopes to discover new insights about a magnetar that's only a few hundred years old. By capturing precise measurements of the magnetar's position ...

Astronomy Aug 7, 2024

Researchers investigate coronal mass ejection on the star AB Doradus

Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have conducted a study of coronal mass ejections on a young solar-type star known as AB Doradus. Results of the new research, published August 1 on the pre-print server ...

Education Aug 7, 2024

Dissatisfied parents demand superintendents, school boards step up their game, expert says

School district leaders including superintendents and board members are under increasing pressure from parents to show better results, according to research by an expert at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business. ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 7, 2024

Coupling excitons to polaritons for better solar cells and higher intensity LEDs

In solar cells and light-emitting diodes, maintaining the excited state kinetics of molecules against annihilation is a race against time. These systems need to strike a careful balance between different processes that lead ...

Other Aug 7, 2024

Work emails, calls on golf course worsen performance, study finds

Checking your work-related emails or taking business calls while playing golf could prevent you from hitting that elusive eagle or birdie. This is according to a group of researchers from the Department of Information Science ...

Molecular & Computational biology Aug 7, 2024

Scientists take atomic look at a protein complex that grants access to our DNA

To transcribe the information contained in our genes or to repair the dozens of breaks that occur daily in our DNA, our enzymes must be able to directly access the DNA to perform their functions. However, in the cell nucleus, ...

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