Humanoid Robots Lab: University of Bonn opens research supermarket
The University of Bonn has opened its own supermarket. On an area of 55 square meters, scientists are investigating the purchasing behavior of test subjects. Products such as pineapples, canned tomatoes and bread dumplings are sorted on black shelves. The store is for...
AI tool MangroveGS improves prediction of cancer metastases
Researchers at the University of Geneva have used cells from intestinal tumors to identify criteria that influence the risk of metastases: They determined gene expression signatures to assess the probability and developed an artificial intelligence tool called...
Reef diff enables design of high-performance enzymes
Researchers at the Graz University of Technology and the University of Graz have developed a new technology that can be used to construct artificial biocatalysts. These enzymes are faster, more stable and more versatile than previous artificial variants. The method,...
POTENTIAL tests intensified therapy for stroke prevention
A new study led by the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus and the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden investigates a strategy for the prevention of repeated strokes by intensifying the inhibition of blood clotting in the first weeks after acute...
Tumoroids from lung cancer tissue enable testing of therapies
Researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité have developed a method that can be used to test therapies on mini-tumors from patient tissue. These tumoroids retain genetic, tissue, and structural properties of the original tumor and reflect the individual...
AI method BioPathNet discovers hidden connections in biomedical data
Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and the Mila Institute in Montréal have developed a new AI method called BioPathNet. It searches large biological data networks specifically for hidden relationships, from gene functions to disease mechanisms and therapeutic...
AR holograms to allay fears for parents of children with heart disease
An interdisciplinary team from cardiology, pediatric heart surgery and pediatric cardiology at the University Hospitals of Heidelberg and Münster is launching the "HoloHeart" project. Augmented reality is to be used to develop a true-to-the-original heart hologram to...
Claudia Schmidtke new affiliated professor at DFKI: Focus on AI in gender and women’s health
Prof. Dr. med. habil. Claudia Schmidtke has been an affiliated professor in the research area "AI for Assistive Health Technologies" at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Lübeck since December 1, 2025. One focus of her work is AI-based...
Study: No negative effects of fluoride in drinking water on newborns
An international study with the participation of the University of Basel found no evidence of negative effects of fluoride in drinking water on newborns. Analysis of data from over 11.5 million births in the U.S. found no measurable differences in birth weight,...
Yeast produces rare drug: Genetically modified microbes produce valuable isoflavonoid from astragalus
Chinese researchers have developed a yeast platform that produces a valuable isoflavonoid from the medicinal plant Astragalus membranaceus. By reconstructing the entire biosynthetic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and systematically eliminating metabolic...
