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Credit: Esteban Hoijman
Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) reveal that newly formed embryos clear dying cells to maximise their chances of survival. It is the earliest display of an innate immune response found in vertebrate animals to date.
The findings, which are published today in the journal
Nature, may aid future efforts to understand why some embryos fail to form in the earliest stages of development, and lead to new clinical efforts in treating infertility or early miscarriages.
ICFO and Corning announce new industrial doctorate opportunities
Date Announced: 04 Feb 2021
Joint PhD students will play pivotal role in projects to produce innovative glass-based products of high industrial importance; optical displays and communication have a tremendous impact on modern life. We routinely interact with tactile smart phones and tablets, televisions and laser projection panels, and constantly use internet services. Glass, either transparent screens or optical fibers, lies at the heart of virtually all optical display and communication technologies.
Barcelona, Spain Glass and optics manufacturer Corning and research center ICFO, Barcelona, Spain, are industrial and academic partners in the new Innovative Training Network (ITN) action called Nano-Glass – “Nano-structured glass for future display and communication technologies”.
Material System Uses Graphene, Gold to Generate Terahertz Waves | Research & Technology | Dec 2020 photonics.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from photonics.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Research team develops new material system to convert and generate terahertz waves
On the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz light is located between infrared radiation and microwaves. It holds enormous potential for tomorrow’s technologies: Among other things, it might succeed 5G by enabling extremely fast mobile communications connections and wireless networks. The bottleneck in the transition from gigahertz to terahertz frequencies has been caused by insufficiently efficient sources and converters. A German-Spanish research team with the participation of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has now developed a material system to generate terahertz pulses much more effectively than before. It is based on graphene, i.e., a super-thin carbon sheet, coated with a metallic lamellar structure. The research group presented its results in the journal ACS Nano (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08106).