A joint discovery by an international team of astronomers from India, the USA and France on how new stars migrate towards the inner regions and gradually build up the stellar content of galaxies has marked a significant step towards tracing the mysteries of galaxy formation.

3D-printed and packed with a "toolbox" for wound healing: a novel gel patch is supposed to help close chronic wounds faster. The special feature: The patch can be "switched on" and controlled specifically by light, making personalised treatment possible.

Researchers have used a modern computational method to reveal the reason behind the survival of bivalves as compared to brachiopods that became less visible post the Permian mass extinction which reset the evolution of life 250 million years ago.

The EU funded project Most-H2 is developing an innovative concept for hydrogen storage, from the laboratory to the tank. With a budget of approximately six million euros over 48 months, the project focuses on research and innovation to find the best storage solutions.

An AI tool was assessed by researchers to predict cancer risk in lung nodules. The study was led by the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and the model seems to work equally well on diagnostic CT and low-dose screening CT.

The ‘Lab-on-a-chip’ technology means to carry out a single or multiple laboratory function on a single chip. This technology has been adopted by many players in the pharmaceuticals and life sciences industry. LAB Worldwide goes one step further to discuss another revolutionary technology i.e. the organ-on-a-chip technology along with its multiple advantages for the drug discovery and development process.

The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic. This has been shown in laboratory experiments by PhD student Maaike Goudriaan at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Nioz). Based on a model study with plastic in artificial seawater in the lab, the scientists calculated that bacteria can break down about one percent of the fed plastic per year into CO2 and other harmless substances.

Researchers have developed a new technique – Nano-Quic (Nanoparticle-enhanced Quaking-Induced Conversion) which helps to reduce detection times significantly from about 14 hours to only four hours and increases the sensitivity by a factor of 10 as compared to the existing advanced protein-misfolding detection methods used for neurodegenerative diseases.

Results from a new international study, just published in the journal of Psychosomatic Medicine, found that people with cardiovascular disease that have higher levels of loneliness, social isolation, and that live alone, tend to die prematurely.

In the healthcare industry, 3D bioprinting is being used to develop human tissues for the purpose of research and development as well as regenerative medicine but now there is also a possibility that fully functional artificial organs can be printed, a move which if proved successful can revolutionize the industry like never before.