Constant Renewal: Your Liver Is Just Under Three Years Old
Using retrospective radiocarbon birth dating, an international team of scientists shows that the human liver stays young throughout life and is on average less than…
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Faster Than the Speed of Light: Overcoming the Physical Limitations of Today’s Telecommunications
With a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, a team of researchers and experts from industry and Aarhus University will try to solve the fundamental…
Cell Feng Shui: Unity of Physical and Biochemical Cues Creates Healthy Organisms
New TU Dresden research group aims to uncover how stem cells respond to mechanical forces and electrical cues during the development and maintenance of the…
Implantable AI System Developed for Early Detection and Treatment of Illnesses
Artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally change medicine and healthcare: Diagnostic patient data, e.g. from ECG, EEG or X-ray images, can be analyzed with the help…
Electrons Waiting Their Turn: New Model Explains 3D Quantum Material
Scientists from the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter have developed a new understanding of how electrons behave in strong…
Who’s to Die and Who’s to Live: Mechanical Cue Is at the Origin of Cell Death Decision
Hydraulic Instability Decides Who’s to Die and Who’s to Live In many species including humans, the cells responsible for reproduction, the germ cells, are often…
Holographic X-ray Nano-Tomography Reveals How Mother-of-Pearl Self-Assembles Into a Perfect Structure
Mollusks build shells to protect their soft tissues from predators. Nacre, also known as the mother of pearl, has an intricate, highly regular structure that…
Synthetic Microswimmers: Inanimate Microparticles Display Complex Behavior
TU Dresden Freigeist fellow Dr Juliane Simmchen is investigating with her multidisciplinary junior research group the motion of synthetic microswimmers in liquids. Her goal is…
Understanding the “Hydrogen Burning” Power of Our Sun – Success After More Than 80 Years
The Borexino collaboration, in which also scientists from TU Dresden are involved, has succeeded after more than 80 years in experimentally confirming the Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle….
Newly Discovered Memory in Our Bones: Keeping a Record of Previous Infections to Boost Immunity
Blood Stem Cells Boost Immunity by Keeping a Record of Previous Infections These findings should have a significant impact on future vaccination strategies and pave…
German Biologists Make Living Sperm Glow – Here’s What They Learned
How do female insects manage to keep the sperm fresh for months after mating? This is a central question of the sperm biologists of the…
First Antiferromagnetic Topological Quantum Material Discovered by Scientists
Quantum materials are worldwide in the focus of research activities within diverse scientific disciplines. This material class appears to be increasingly complex and rich in…
