With advances in genome sequencing, cancer treatments have increasingly sought to leverage the idea of “synthetic lethality,” exploiting cancer-specific…
The ability of the human brain to process and store information is determined to a large extent by the connectivity between nerve cells. Chemical synapses are…
The cochlear implant (CI) enables worldwide over 700,000 people with profoundly reduced hearing and deaf people to hear again. So far, the auditory nerve has…
An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has uncovered a new class of magnet that exhibits novel quantum effects that extend to room…
The ‘Gamma Factory initiative’ – an international team of scientists – is currently exploring a novel research tool: They propose to develop a source of…
More than 600,000 people worldwide have fallen victim to the lung disease COVID-19 so far, which is caused by the SARS coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). In order to…