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Novel Drosophila-based disease model to study human intellectual disability syndrome
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Genetics sheds light on causes of adverse events of drugs
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Doctoral thesis gives hints on how to treat melanoma with a virus
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Researchers found a reason why COVID-19 may be life-threatening
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Suicidal thoughts among people with dementia need more attention
Instead of using it as heating material, wood waste could be used to create new values. Photo credit: Markus Spiske
Synthetic biology opens up a new development path for the wood industry
SensorTechBME in TalTech. Photo credit: TalTech
TalTech’s PhD thesis offers a real-time alternative to dialysis quality monitoring by an optical method
Estonians came up with a potentially good alternative to a long-outdated airport x-rays. Photo credit: FrameStockFootages
Good-bye X-rays? New scanner technology sees through things
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Do fish get cancer?
Identity in Estonia can be verified online either by connecting an ID-card with the computer or via mobile phone. Photo credit: Rasmus Jurkatam
Algorithms run the Estonian government, and people trust it
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Increasing fragmentation of the forest cover in Brazil’s Legal Amazon
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A university project turned into a driverless bus
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Coronavirus is ten times more prevalent than previously thought
Coal is a big polluter, but it's still a cheap way to produce energy. Photo credit: Pixabay
Should wood become cheaper than fossil fuel?
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Screening test by University of Tartu scientists for early identification of the risk for preeclampsia
Roboticist Indrek Must is using textile made of carbon to create robot skin. Photo credit: Andres Tennus
New skin-like robot could turn us into superhumans
Lemons. Photo credit: Arianka Ibarra
University of Tartu scientists turned citric acid into novel bioplastic
Around half of the population is retired in Transnistria. A stroll through Tiraspol during lockdown. Photo credit: private collection
Surviving isolation in an isolated place
Researchers at TalTech Centre for Biorobotics Jeffrey Andrew Tuhtan and Asko Ristolainen. Private collection.
The underwater sensors help adapting to climate change
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New giant database helps find medication and diagnose hereditary diseases
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Researchers identified potential inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 infection
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Modelling of breaking wave dynamics in port engineering improved
DNA analysis of food helps identify its actual components. Photo: Private collection of Kairi Raime
Novel DNA analysis will help to identify food origin and counterfeit food in the future
For some strange reason, the world often slides over the Baltic Finnic region. On this photo, Baltic Viking Age fans in Kiruvere Muinaslaager, an Estonia-based gathering of Iron Age enthusiasts. Credit: Tiit Blaat / Ekspress Meedia
Baltic Finns were Vikings too, but the world ignores it

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