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Evaluating the Quality of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Alessandra Bendini
University of Bologna
Have you ever found yourself looking to buy a bottle of vegetable oil at the supermarket only to...
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Molecular Machines Powered by Light
Alberto Credi
University of Bologna
Imagine if we were able to make mechanical machines so exceedingly small that we could target...
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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: A Perspective from the Very Small
Stefano Zacchini
University of Bologna
As a chemist, I have had to deal with the very small since the beginning of my studies. Although I...
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Organometallic Chemotherapeutics – The Anticancer Platinums of Tomorrow?
Christian Hartinger
University of Vienna
Image 1. The development of cancer-caused deaths in Austria from 1983 to 2004 and overall causes of...
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Cutting Cancer’s Communication Lines
Raymond Schiffelers
University of Utrecht
Image: Tiny messages from cancer cells (labelled red) are taken up by a cell isolated from a blood...
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Colour from Structure, from Nature to the Lab Bench: “Smart” Photonic Crystals for Optical Sensing
Bettina V. Lotsch and Ida Pavlichenko
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Stuttgart
What do opals, peacock feathers and butterfly wings (and, coincidentally, “smart” photonic crystals...
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Playing the Mastermind Game: Code-Breaking Strategies in Biology
Achim Tresch
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Figure 1. The Mastermind game (left) and its biological counterpart (right). The goal is to break...
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Oral Delivery of Insulin: Meeting Challenges Through Nanoencapsulation and Emulsification/Internal Gelation
Antonio José Ribeiro
University of Coimbra
Diabetes is one of the major causes of premature illness and death worldwide. For all people with...
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Man against Microbe: Are We Losing the Battle against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria?
Daniel Wilson
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
WILSON ( Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich):
Current trends indicate that microbes have...
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Molecular Polymer Brushes as Smart Nanovalves
Szczepan Zapotoczny
Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Corporations and individual consumers focus on the tremendous benefits of making computers and cell...