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Audio Features from Helmholtz.PODCAST #42

Magnetic monopoles detected in a real magnet

Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) have, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden (Germany), St. Andrews (UK), La Plata (Argentina) and Oxford (UK), for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real material.

Audio Features from Helmholtz.PODCAST #43

Can liver cells replace defective insulin-producing cells?

The research project of Dr. Francesca M. Spagnoli of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch will investigate the possibility of reprogramming hepatic cells to pancreas cells so that they can ultimately replace the destroyed pancreatic beta cells and produce the vital hormone insulin in diabetic patients.

Listen to Helmholtz.PODCAST #43 (in German)

09.01.2013

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