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Possible tumour marker found for the development of hepatocellular carcinoma

Cancer cells leave an "imprint" on natural killer cells

19-Mar-2024 - A research team at the MHH is comparing changes in natural killer cells of the innate immune defence system in chronic hepatitis C sufferers as a risk factor for the later development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a malignant liver tumour that develops from ...

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Optical Frequency Combs Make Ultraviolet Spectroscopy More Sensitive and More Precise

The development promises advances in several scientific and technological fields

18-Mar-2024 - In a recent publication in Nature, researchers at the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin, Germany, and at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching report on a new technique for deciphering the properties of matter with light, that can simultaneously detect and precisely quantify many ...

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Chemical analyses faster and more precise than ever before

A new spectroscopy method: Ultra-short light pulses enable high-precision "artificial nose"

15-Mar-2024 - Whether you want to analyze environmental samples in nature or monitor a chemical experiment, you often need highly sensitive sensors that can "sniff out" even tiny traces of a certain gas with extreme accuracy. Variants of Raman spectroscopy are often used for this purpose: Different molecules ...

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Revolutionizing chemical testing for a safer future

The EU project TOXBOX is pioneering an era of chemical testing

15-Mar-2024 - The EU project TOXBOX is pioneering an era of chemical testing, ensuring safety and sustainability throughout the entire life cycle. With cutting-edge technology and innovative design principles, TOXBOX aims to provide reliable toxicity data under realistic conditions, paving the way for accurate ...

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analytica supporting program: Fit for the laboratory world of tomorrow

More than 1,050 exhibitors will be showing new instruments and applications with which the laboratory industry is meeting today's challenges

14-Mar-2024 - Whether in the battle against climate change, in developing vaccines and medicines, or controlling our food, modern analysis methods are indispensable. Over 1,050 exhibitors at analytica in Munich from April 9 to 12 will be showcasing the new instruments and applications the laboratory industry ...

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With AI and lasers to fully automated cell selection

Continuous movement versus stop-and-go process

14-Mar-2024 - Tests on living cell cultures are becoming increasingly important for personalized medicine, drug development and clinical research. The Aachen-based Fraunhofer Institutes for Laser Technology ILT and for Production Technology IPT have developed an AI-assisted high-throughput process that now ...

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Following Proteins on Their Journey

"This new technique represents a breakthrough in studying individual proteins in cells"

13-Mar-2024 - A research team led by biochemist Professor Helge Ewers from Freie Universität Berlin has developed a new technique for the light-mediated release and investigation of proteins in live cells. The technique makes use of a laser pulse to control the release of tagged protein molecules within a ...

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Combined microscopy technique catches light-driven polymers in the act

Researchers combine high-speed atomic force microscopy with a laser light source for real-time observation of azo-polymer films

13-Mar-2024 - Expanding our scientific understanding often comes down to getting as close a look as possible at what is happening. Now researchers from Japan have observed the nanoscale behavior of azo-polymer films while triggering them with laser light. In a study published last month in Nano Letters the ...

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AI technique 'decodes' microscope images, overcoming fundamental limit

“We’ve given a proof-of-concept and shown how to use AI to significantly improve AFM images, but this work is only the beginning”

12-Mar-2024 - Atomic force microscopy, or AFM, is a widely used technique that can quantitatively mapmaterial surfaces in three dimensions, but its accuracy is limited by the size of the microscope’sprobe. A new AI technique overcomes this limitation and allows microscopes to resolve material features ...

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Muscaris grapes: Molecular secret of lychee note revealed

New findings form the basis for further studies investigating the extent to which the aroma-relevant compounds are transferred from the grapes into wine

12-Mar-2024 - A team of researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich has succeeded for the first time in identifying the odorants responsible for the characteristic lychee note of Muscaris grapes. The new findings form the basis for further studies ...

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