By Ben Coxworth March 03, 2023 A Stanford University logo made up of droplets containing bacteria and red blood cells, printed onto a gold-coated slideFareeha Safir Currently, in order to see what type of bacteria (if any) are present in a liquid sample, bacterial cultures have to be grown in a lab over the course...
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF IMAGE: A RESEARCH TEAM LED BY THE HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM DRESDEN-ROSSENDORF (HZDR) HAS SUCCESSFULLY TESTED THE IRRADIATION OF TUMORS WITH LASER PROTONS FOR THE FIRST TIME. CREDIT: HZDR / JUNIKS Irradiation with fast protons is a more effective and less invasive cancer treatment than X-rays. However, modern proton therapy requires large particle accelerators, which has...
An international collaboration led by DESY and consisting of over 120 researchers has announced the results of the first scientific experiments at Europe’s new X-ray laser European XFEL. The pioneering work not only demonstrates that the new research facility can speed up experiments by more than an order of magnitude, it also reveals a previously unknown structure of an enzyme responsible for antibiotics resistance. “The groundbreaking work of the first team to use...
Before lasers, there were masers — the microwave siblings of optical lasers. But whereas lasers are used in many applications from telescopes to medicine, masers have long languished in the shadows, because they work only in super-cool temperatures or in a vacuum. Now, physicists have created a maser that works in regular conditions — using...
A technique that destroys tumors could save thousands of men from surgery. Laser therapy could eradicate the prostate cancer tumors of thousands of men Technique could spare many patients the trauma of surgery or radiotherapy Nearly half of men with early-stage prostate cancer saw their tumor destroyed Targeting prostate cancer with bursts of light could...
