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During four years, congenital metabolic disorders have been identified in 29 newborns. By now, all of the children have received necessary treatment, lack complaints referring to congenital metabolic disorders, and their development is age appropriate. 
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Diagnosing congenital metabolic disorders in newborns improved in Estonia
The sensor developed by researchers at the University of Tartu is located inside the small white box, which holds the sensor matrix. The sensor is also covered by a protective Teflon filter. Four sensors, each only half a square millimetre in size, are working simultaneously to collectively give information on air pollution. 
Photo by: Randel Kreitsberg
Future phone’s prototype is completed
Senior Researcher Kaarel Adamberg at work.  Photo by Signe Adamberg.
Estonian food scientists investigate the impact of food transit rate on human gut bacteria
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Flooding in cities increases pollution in the Baltic Sea
Photo credit: Kristi Sits
ESN Tartu Science Gig: Virtual Reality
Photo credit: Renee Altrov
Science Gig: what is an enactive co-presence between the viewer and screen character?
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Compared to other European countries, Estonian children experience fewer Internet threats
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Cash is contaminated with microbes
Author: Renee Altrov
Scientists are helping to put together the genetic data of people from three continents
Nowadays, giftedness is mostly associated with children, which may leave the needs of people in other age groups in the background. Author/source: Alice Achterhof/Unsplash
Giftedness is valued in Estonia but its carriers are left in the shadows
Organic aerogels prepared from oil shale phenolic compounds.
Photo by Mihkel Koel
Scientists developed a method that allows removal of antibiotic residue from waste water
Journalists need to carry out tasks for various mediums – work that used to be carried out by four journalists 20 years ago is now being done by one. Author/source: unsplash.com
Stress and burnout among Estonian journalists is caused by the lack of routine
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TalTech scientists to create new ‘chemical noses’ to rid the environment of industrial pollutants
Kotkajärve Forest University was one of the community undertakings which were supposed to increase Estonianness in the youth. Photo from the exhibition at the Estonian National Museum. Author/source: ENM
Thesis details fostering of patriotism in Estonian diaspora during Cold War
Author: Kaarel Mikkin
NATURE: A small nation found strength in research after joining the European Union.
If the relationship of mother and child after birth has already attracted researchers for a long time, now knowledge in different fields (e.g. neurobiology) increasingly stress on the importance to understand the interaction between a pregnant woman and her fetus. Source: pixabay.com
Motherhood Construction Based on Personal Experiences and Sociocultural Background
Scientists taking samples from an erratic.
Information about the retreat of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet is hidden in erratic boulders
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Applied Theatre Helps Children to Overcome the Loss of a Close Person
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Georgian Childhood Experiences Pushed to Research Country’s Transformations
Uptake of nanoparticles loaded with ToxInvent’s Utorubicin in cultured prostate cancer cells. PPC-1  cells were incubated for 3 hours with Utorubicin-loaded nanoparticles. The Utorubicin (red) accumuates inside the cells, including in the nucleus of the cells (the site of action of the drug).  Nanoparticles and imaging by Drs. Anne-Mari Anton Willmore and Lorena Simón Gracia.
Nanoparticles Could Help to Deliver Cancer-Drug to the Right Target
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Study confirms links between adverse drug effects and genetics
Herbal supplements must be consumed carefully and consciously during active cancer treatment. Author/source: Andres Tennus, University of Tartu
Compound found in citrus fruits may suppress the effectiveness of cancer treatment
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Tallinn University of Technology is studying the possibilities for reducing microplastic pollution in the Baltic Sea
The extremely fast 5G data network will get its first christening in large cities. Author/source: Graphene Flagship
Wonder material graphene connects to a 5G network, coffee machines and self-driving cars

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