How can different types of brains bolster startup success?

08-Aug-2024 - Associate Professor Carina Lomberg is on a quest to understand the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects of entrepreneurs and what shapes their journey. She has found that including neurodiverse individuals in teams that start a company enhances the team’s performance. Are there many ...

Is Living in a “Food Swamp” Increasing Stroke Risk in Older Adults?

Living in “food swamps” – areas with a higher density of fast food and junk food options rather than healthy food options – may increase stroke risk among those ages 50 years-old and older

07-Feb-2023 - Adults ages 50 and older who lived near dense fast food and unhealthy food environments known as “food swamps” had a higher risk ofstrokecompared to those who lived in areas with fewer retail and fast food choices, according to preliminary research to be presented at the American Stroke ...

Microbiologists improve taste of beer

05-Oct-2022 - Belgian investigators have improved the flavor of contemporary beer by identifying and engineering a gene that is responsible for much of the flavor of beer and some other alcoholic drinks.The researchappears inApplied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for ...

Structure of virus that infects bacteria in hot springs is revealed

06-Feb-2019 - Scientists have revealed the structure of a virus infecting bacteria that thrive in 160-degree hot springs in places like Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The discovery could lead to better targeted delivery of drugs into cells and new DNA sequencing technology, according to a study by ...

Better protection of the eye from glaucoma

30-May-2018 - Under the increased pressure of glaucoma, scientists want to help the neurons in our eyes better protect themselves and get better help from their friends. They are working to see whether agents that activate the innate neuron protector sigma 1 receptor, or S1R, can do both. Current glaucoma ...

Viral infection a matter of simple physics

Probably relevant to other cellular transport as well

07-May-2018 - The manner in which some viruses inject their DNA into bacteria or other types of cells, appears to be much simpler than scientists had previously thought. Rather than using molecular engines or complicated mechanisms, viruses let simple physics do the work for them. This is a recent finding by ...

Flipping the switch on ammonia production

07-Feb-2017 - Nearly a century ago, German chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a process to generate ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen gases. The process, still in use today, ushered in a revolution in agriculture, but now consumes around one percent of the world's energy to achieve the ...

Fluorescence dyes from the pressure cooker

01-Feb-2017 - The laboratory of Dr. Miriam M. Unterlass at the Institute of Materials Chemistry at TU Wien has just reported the synthesis of more than 20 different perylene bisimide dyes. This is not impressive per se. The way they prepare these compounds is though: Conventionally, perylene bisimides are ...

The role played by solvents at extreme pressure

Combination of experiment and theory gives insights

04-Jul-2016 - Some living organisms thrive under extraordinary conditions, such as the deep sea. But just how do they withstand the enormous pressure? Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the Technische Universität Dortmund have examined how the interactions between solvents and biomolecules change ...

Bayer focuses resources on growth and innovation

Planned net reduction of about 2,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2012

23-Nov-2010 - Bayer plans to invest its resources even more systematically in growing the company and enhancing its innovative capability. The focus will be on researching, developing and marketing new products, particularly in HealthCare and CropScience, and on expanding activities in the emerging markets. ...