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‘Tiny Biome Tales’: Playing a Game to Understand the Human Microbiome

Researchers at TU Graz have published a video game about the health effects of the microbiome and what impact our lifestyle has on it.

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Enzymes Instead of Cyanide: Researchers Develop Biocatalytic Process for Nitrile Production

A research team from TU Graz and the Czech Academy of Sciences has used two enzymes to eliminate the need for highly toxic cyanide in the production of nitriles.

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Are Batteries Safe?

Energy storage systems are becoming increasingly important, powerful and widespread. However, this also means that the demands on their safety and durability are growing.

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TU Graz Bundles Its Strengths in Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence

In a multidisciplinary research project, researchers from the biosciences, process engineering and computer science want to massively increase efficiency in the development of new enzymes and process…

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How the Human Brain Reacts to Errors

Hannah Pulferer is investigating brain waves at TU Graz’s Institute of Neural Engineering with the chief aim of improving brain-computer interfaces.

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Bacteria with CO₂ on the Menu

Researchers at TU Graz and ACIB feed bacteria with CO₂ and other gases in a gas fermentation process. What humans store as fat, these bacteria deposit as bioplastics.

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A Healthy Heart Needs a Healthy Environment

Western dietary habits and the industrialised food production required for them are harmful to the microbiome of plants and thus ultimately also to humans and their hearts. What can be done about…

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Love Goes Through the Microbiome

When we fall in love, the microorganisms that colonise our bodies play a decisive role. The reason for this lies in evolutionary history.

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Theoretical Physics for Cardiovascular Surgery

Physicist Sascha Ranftl wants to use computer simulations and machine learning to clarify in advance whether open heart surgery is necessary. In this essay he explains why and how exactly he does…

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How Do You Simulate a Digital Twin of the Heart?

In this interview, Thomas Pock from the Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision explains what determining the activation sequence of the heartbeat has in common with throwing stones into a lake and…

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