Plants & Animals
Aug 6, 2019
Data tool helps decipher mouse's calls
Technology that can help interpret inaudible calls from laboratory mice has been developed in a bid to improve research.
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Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2019
Space station cell study seeks causes of major diseases
High above the Earth, researchers are conducting a first-of-its-kind study to help patients with Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis on the planet below. The International Space Station experiment is looking for what ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 31, 2019
'Sniff-cam' to detect disease
Having bad breath can mean someone ate a smelly lunch, but it could indicate that the person is sick. Various scent compounds have been linked to illnesses such as diabetes, lung cancer and Parkinson's disease, leading scientists ...
Biotechnology
Jul 15, 2019
Blood samples from the zoo help predict diseases in humans
The zoos of Saarbrücken and Neunkirchen are home to penguins, Asian elephants and many other species. Since they come from different continents, blood samples are regularly taken from the animals to check their health. These ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 11, 2019
Keeping a cell's powerhouse in shape
A German-Swiss team around Professor Oliver Daumke from the MDC has investigated how a protein of the dynamin family deforms the inner mitochondrial membrane. The results, which also shed light on a hereditary disease of ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 8, 2019
One-molecule-thick coating to help improve disease and drug testing
A new breakthrough has the potential to improve sensors used to test for diseases and detect doping in sports.
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 3, 2019
Picturing access to energy for all in sub-Saharan Africa
The U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) aims to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all populations by 2030. Access to electricity services is, of course, a key priority under ...
Biochemistry
Jun 26, 2019
New approaches to investigate the molecular causes of amyloid formation
More than 24 million people worldwide suffer from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or Huntington's. The molecular causes of these diseases have so far been little investigated. A team of scientists ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 24, 2019
Chemists discover structure of glucagon fibrils
Patients with type 1 diabetes have to regularly inject themselves with insulin, a hormone that helps their cells absorb glucose from the bloodstream. Another hormone called glucagon, which has the opposite effect, is given ...
General Physics
May 28, 2019
Inhibitory neurons have two types of impact on brain oscillations
Studying the brain involves measuring the activity of billions of individual brain cells called neurons. Consequently, many brain measurement techniques produce data that is averaged to reflect the activity of large populations ...
