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Magnetic microalgae on a mission to become robots

Peer-Reviewed Publication Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems FacebookXLinkedInWeChatBlueskyMessageWhatsAppEmail image:  Animation of an alga covered in magnetic materialview more  Credit: MPI-IS / A. Posada Stuttgart – A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart developed a biohybrid micro swimmer covered with magnetic material, whose swimming ability is largely unaffected...

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Researchers discover new protocol to detect lipid production in microalgae

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.,Oct 16 2020 Dietary supplementation of fatty acids produced from microalgae have wide-reaching health benefits for humans, including the ability to reduce obesity, diabetes and fatty liver disease, preventing hair loss, and assisting wounds to heal. However, its widespread development has been hampered by the current limits of bioimaging tools needed...