Research team decodes symbiotic interactions in marine algae using raman spectroscopy

Implications for biotechnology and environmental protection

02-Oct-2024 - In a recent study, researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena have shown how they can non-invasively and non-destructively investigate the growth and interactions of the green alga Ulva and its bacterial community using ...

analytica 2024: Food analysis for sustainable nutrition

From PFAS to microplastics: focus on new harmful substances

16-Nov-2023 - From meat-free cold cuts to vegan salmon, the food market is changing. More and more consumers want to eat sustainably, but without sacrificing the taste of familiar products. “Modern analytical methods play a key role in the development of alternative foods, which is why analytica is ...

Raman Microspectroscopy for Microbiology

Methodology can provide new insights into a variety of key topics in microbiology

17-Jan-2022 - Raman microspectroscopy is a fast and non-invasive technology to determine the chemical composition of living microorganisms in near real-time. Jürgen Popp, scientific director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, together with an international team of expert scientists, describes the ...

Bacterial toxin blinds algae

Chemical “fingerprints” reveal the “murder weapon”

18-Aug-2021 - University of Jena researchers have discovered a bacterial toxin that destroys the colour pigments in the eyespot of the single-cell green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Together with another toxic substance, the bacteria of the species Pseudomonas protegens not only disorientate and immobilise ...

Trends in Analytics: Digitization, detecting novel pollutants and more

analytica 2018

13-Mar-2018 - From material testing to environmental monitoring: At the analytica, companies and research institutions from all over the world present their latest developments. A glance at the key aspects of the international leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology shows: ...

New Process for Marker-free Cell Selection

08-Mar-2018 - At this year’s analytica trade fair in Munich, three Fraunhofer Institutes will be presenting a project from pre-competitive research. Biologists, computer scientists and laser experts have developed a process to analyze and select cells and then examine their protein production. In ...

Golden trap: Highly sensitive system to detect individual molecules

18-Dec-2013 - Medical diagnostics is searching for substances capable of documenting early on whether a serious disease is developing or what its course will be. In many cases, the treacherous molecules are present only in trace amounts – which is why extremely sensitive methods of detection are urgently ...

Mussels - Material artists with grip

Iron atoms convey mussel fibres with a robust but stretchy covering

09-Mar-2010 - Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and collaborators at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Chicago believe they have uncovered the basis how marine mussels use the byssus, a bundle of tough and extensible fibres, to fasten securely ...