Engineers and oncologists teamed up to develop a microfluidic chip capable of capturing the body’s natural killer immune cells to harvest their cancer-killing exosomes.
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Researchers shed light on the 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident
The Dyatlov Pass incident is an intriguing unsolved mystery. Now, researchers from EPFL and ETH Zürich use science to put forth a plausible explanation for the mysterious death of nine hikers.
New material for solar hydrogen
New photoanodes promise high efficiencies in producing hydrogen in a climate-neutral way.
New method to assist fast-tracking of vaccines for pre-clinical tests
Nvel tuberculosis vaccine demonstrated strong immune response in mice.
This month in pictures
From Trojan horses that help sneak therapeutics past the blood–brain barrier to advanced brain models built on microchips, we celebrate innovative science in breathtaking images.
Phages help reverse antibiotic resistance in dangerous superbug
Scientists investigated phages that can kill the world’s leading superbug, Acinetobacter baumannii, which is responsible for up to 20% of infections in intensive care units.
An affordable, quantum‐limit‐approaching sensing chip for trace chemical analysis
Study shows improvements to chemical sensing chip that aims to quickly and accurately identify drugs and other trace chemicals.
Researchers develop stable, high energy density supercapacitor
The Achilles heel of supercapacitors as energy storage devices, is gradually being overcome.
Understanding consciousness: researchers identify key neural structures
Which structures in the brain activate when your state of consciousness changes?
How does the structure of ice change around impurities?
On the molecular scale, ice is less ordered than you might think, but it turns out that some of that missing order can be recovered