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On the left, there is a star shaped structure with cells in the center. On the right, these cells have grown from the center of the structure into the spikes of the star.

When biological tissue is created in the laboratory, nothing should be left to chance: At TU Wien, a method was developed to guide individual cells to…

large metal construction in a concrete wall
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One of the world’s most powerful cable testing facilities has now been put into operation at TU Wien (Vienna). Using a completely new technique, it…

computer generated picture of the surface

At TU Wien (Vienna), it was now possible to explain how a chemical reaction takes place that, at first glance, should not be possible at the…

vacuum chambers with nuts and bolts and glass windows

How do you integrate as much as possible of the 2D material graphene into a limited space? By producing it not on a flat surface, but on a 3D…

three people in the lab

A surprising result in road engineering research: contrary to previous assumptions, visible light contributes to the ageing of bitumen, which can…