What exactly happens in the body when alcohol damages the liver? A researcher at the Medical University of Vienna has uncovered the chain of mechanisms – which already begin in the digestive tract – behind alcohol-induced fatty liver. At the same time, the findings show possible approaches for future therapy developments.
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The AI researcher Franz Pernkopf and his research team investigated how to reduce the resource hunger of neural networks that provide speech and image recognition in our everyday lives. Their curiosity led the researchers to completely new solutions.
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In the context of his Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship in the UK, Florian Reichmann set out to identify genes for aggressive behaviour. To this end, he examined the behaviour of zebrafish and found differences in the brains of particularly peaceful and particularly aggressive breeding lines.
Continue reading “Fight or flight – it’s also in the genes”When practitioners and researchers form an alliance for change, the stakes are often high, but so are the chances of success. Transdisciplinary projects of that kind enable the partners to negotiate conflicts of interest and develop solutions to social problems. In this interview, Christian Pohl from the ETH Zurich explains why it is time for more collaboration.
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Beatrix Hiesmayr is a theoretical physicist whose main research interest is quantum information. Quantum information science holds tremendous potential for fundamental changes – among other things, in the way our computers work. But even though quantum theory has been around for more than one hundred years, nobody, not even Hiesmayr, can fully make sense of it – which may sound slightly absurd, but surprisingly, it is not a really big problem.
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Research thrives on international exchanges and young researchers, in particular, benefit from stays abroad. Javier López Prol completed his Schrödinger Fellowship in Berlin, until the coronavirus came onto the scene. For scilog, this economist reports on how he was able to make a contribution to society in the pandemic as a researcher and how this contribution could lead to smart strategies for the energy transition.
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