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  • Modelling ion beam therapy

    New York | Heidelberg, 9 October 2019
    Recent analysis shows precisely how beams of charged particles transfer their energy to water, which has important implications for how these beams are targeted in ion beam cancer therapy.

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  • Shocking embryonic limbs into shape

    New York | Heidelberg, 18 September 2019
    Electrical stimulation of early chicken embryos has shed light on the process through which the limbs of all vertebrates are formed.





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  • Fractal patterns in growing bacterial colonies

    New York | Heidelberg, 18 September 2019
    A new agent-based computer modelling technique has been applied to the growth and sliding movement of colonies of bacteria

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