Researchers use AI to calculate the surface structures of bacteria, archaea and viruses
Bacteria, archaea and viruses protect themselves from external attacks with an envelope of proteins. These surfaces show complex, regular, symmetrical structures. A team led by Tea Pavkov-Keller at the University of Graz has developed a method with which the structure of the envelope of bacteria, archaea and viruses can be reliably predicted down to the smallest detail with the help of artificial intelligence. This saves an enormous amount of time and effort in the laboratory. The new method, called "SymProFold", is presented for the first time in the journal Nature Communications.
Expanding awareness: Why we should change our idea of multilingualism
In 2005, Austrian Sign Language was recognised as a language in its own right. From the school year 26/27, it is also to be included in the curricula of grammar schools. It is high time, because children and young people who do not have a perfect command of spoken German are classified as problem cases. Anouschka Foltz from the Department of English Studies at the University of Graz explains why this is the case and how things could be done differently. She is a researcher in the focus area of multilingualism, migration and cultural transformation and co-investigator in research project "Deaf Health and Well-Being Wales" at the Bangor University in Wales, which is funded by the British Government.