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• Endogenous proteins found in a 70-million-year-old giant marine lizard

  With their discovery, the scientists Johan Lindgren, Per Uvdal, Anders Engdahl, and colleagues have demonstrated that remains of type I collagen, a structural protein, are retained in a mosasaur fossil.The scientists have used synchrotron radiation-based infrared microspectroscopy at MAX-lab in Lund more

• Advanced imaging for bone research and materials science

  A novel nano-tomography method developed by a team of researchers from the Technische Universität München (TUM), the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the ETH Zurich opens the door to computed tomography examinations of minute structures at nanometer resolutions. The new method makes possible, for e more

• New X-ray technique distinguishes between that which previously looked the same

  Traditional X-ray images can clearly distinguish between bones and soft tissue, with muscles, cartilage, tendons and soft-tissue tumours all look virtually identical. The phase-contrast technique developed a few years ago at the Paul Scherrer Institute enables X-ray images to be produced that clearl more

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