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Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of ...

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Old PET plastic packaging gets a second life through genetically engineered bacteria – as L-DOPA for Parkinson's patients.

At Empa, an interdisciplinary research institute for materials science and technology within the ETH Domain, researchers are ...

Long COVID continues to affect millions of people worldwide, and scientists are still trying to understand why some patients ...