Matthew Kotchen, an economist at Yale University, has found that fossil fuel companies in the U.S. are getting approximately $62 billion in implicit subsidies every year. In his paper published in Proceedings of the National ...
Targeted, efficient and with few side effects: A new method for combating periodontitis could render the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics superfluous. It was developed and tested for the first time by a team from Martin ...
Biochemistry
Mar 3, 2021
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Cutting down global emissions of greenhouse gases to combat global warming won't do the trick alone: we also need negative-emissions technology that can capture carbon dioxide directly out of the air. In the prestigious journal ...
Environment
Feb 18, 2021
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The research team that developed a biosensor that first recorded that a distinct gradient of the plant growth hormone gibberellin correlated with plant cell size has now revealed how this distribution pattern is created in ...
Biotechnology
Feb 16, 2021
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When it comes to saving endangered species of a certain size, conservationists often have to think outside the box.
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2021
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A newly developed compound starves cancer cells by attacking their "power plants"—the so-called mitochondria. The new compound prevents the genetic information within mitochondria from being read. Researchers from the Max ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 22, 2020
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Drug delivery is a recurring conundrum in cancer treatment. Scientists have developed many anti-cancer therapeutics. But those drugs often harm healthy tissues, and drugs can even break down in the bloodstream before reaching ...
Polymers
Nov 3, 2020
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Researchers at the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab and the University of Copenhagen, working closely together, have succeeded in realizing an important and promising material for use in a future quantum computer. For this ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 16, 2020
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In agriculture, fungicides are used to combat fungal infections, and in medicine, antimycotics—both of which have their drawbacks. The microbiologist Florentine Marx-Ladurner is working on a new, more natural active antifungal ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 14, 2020
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According to the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, cancer is one of the most frequent causes of death, accounting for almost 25% of all deaths. Chemotherapy is often used as a treatment, but brings side effects for healthy ...
Biochemistry
Sep 10, 2020
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