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ChipScope
Press Book Publications following the ChipScope Press Release Nr. 1
sent out from March- Mai 2017
Date: 2017-04-25
Author: Annette Locher, FSRM
The ChipScope Project is funded by the European Union
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Table of contents
Press release ....................................................................................................................... 2
Distribution and publications ............................................................................................. 3
Examples of Publications per Country ............................................................................. 0
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Press release
The first ChipScope press release has been sent out from March to Mai 2017 by all partners.
Development of New Tiny Microscopes The European Commission launches a new research project entitled ChipScope to develop a completely new and extremely small optical microscope capable to observe the interior of living cells in real time. A consortium of 7 partners from 5 countries will tackle this issue with very ambitious objectives during a four-year research program.
In the end of the project the developed chip-sized microscope will be used to observe in real-time the interior of cells present in a lung disease called Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Syndrome (COPD). This widespread disease is affecting about 5 percent of the global population and results in nearly 3 Mio deaths annually, mainly in the developing world.
Chip-sized microscopes will be cheap and ubiquitously available. They are expected to lead to foundational breakthroughs in virtually every field of research and technology that makes use of optical microscopes. Such microscopes will be particularly useful in the medical field, for example for quick and affordable diagnostic of damaged cells.
The Background
Today, optical microscopes are limited in resolution by physical laws related to the wavelength of light, around 1/1000 of a millimeter. Single proteins, DNA molecules or the interior of living cells are much smaller and cannot be directly observed with conventional optical microscopes.
At the moment, only indirect observation - that means interpretation of measured data - can be made, for example with electron microscopy which, however, does not allow 3D observation.
The Ambitious Project Objectives
The objective of the project is to develop a new kind of optical microscope allowing to see the infinitely small.
During the project, very small LEDs -1000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair (50nm)- will be developed and used as light sources for the new microscope which will be integrated on a chip. The fundamental difference with conventional optical microscopy will be that the illumination is made by extremely small individual light sources instead of a wide illumination field and tiny detectors. This allows super-resolution (<50nm) optical microscopy, which could be used to investigate extremely small structures as viruses, DNA or living cells, in real time.
A Highly Interdisciplinary Project Team
The project is running from January 2017 to December 2020. The project team includes SMEs, universities and research organisations under the leadership of the University of Barcelona. Other partners are the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany, the University Tor Vergata in Rome, the company Expert Ymaging in Barcelona, the Austrian Institute of Technology, the Medical University of Vienna and the FSRM Swiss Foundation for Research in Microtechnology.
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Contact and further information ChipScope Coordinator: Angel DIEGUEZ, University of Barcelona +34 93 403 91 49 [email protected]
www.chipscope.eu
The ChipScope project receives 3.75 M€ funding from the European Union’s Research Programme Horizon 2020.
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Distribution and publications
The press release has been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish and Catalan.
The partners and their press services have sent the Press release to about 42’000 addresses in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Italy and the UK, including Cordis, newsletters from partner organisations, internet portals, local and regional politicians and commissions of the European Parliament dealing with innovation, science, university education, economy and health.
Internet researches until May 2017 revealed over 70 publications of the press release in newspapers and technical magazines of 10 countries as well as on European and Global websites and blogs and in TV interviews.
The list of publications is below (some direct linksto the articles may have been withdrawn in the meantime). A print screen of each publication is available on the Internal Project Server.
chemiezeitschrift.at AT
Lebensmittel und Biotechnologie.AT AT
MedUni Vienna Website AT
NanoNet.at
AT
www.bionanonet.at AT
LabOnLine
AUS
CanalAlpha
CH
La Revue Polytechnique CH
L'Express
CH
RTN
CH
FSRM website CH
SSC
CH
abitur-und-studium.de DE
Analytik News DE
Bioregion.de
DE
Braunschweiger Anzeiger DE
ComputerClub2.de DE
diseasesresearchgroup.xonl.de DE
ecv.de
DE
Heinz Schmitz.Org DE
idw.de
DE
IHK Braunschweig DE
Jura Forum
DE
Labor Praxis
DE
magazin.tu-braunschweig.de DE
Medizin Aspekte DE
medtech-zwo.de DE
mst-rhein-main.de DE
mta-dialog.de DE
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ProPhysik
DE
Standort38.de DE
ABC.es
ES
AIMDigital
ES
Aketxe Consulting ES
Bolsamania.es ES
Canal 6
ES
DiarioMultimedia ES
EcoDiario.es
ES
El Punt Avui
ES
infosalus.com ES
LaInformacion.com ES
Lavanguardia
ES
LaVozLibre
ES
LifeScienceLab.com ES
MedicinaTV
ES
Noticias de la Ciencia ES
SigloXXI
ES
Universitat de
Barcelona ES
Ymaging website ES
AgenziaDiStampa.eu Europe
Bionity.com
Europe
Cordis Europa Europe
Innovations report Europe
Microscopy and
Analysis Europe
Microscopy83 Europe
NewsMedical.net Europe
OpenAIRE
Europe
SciFeeds.com Europe
analytica-World Global
AzoOptics.com Global
Ewallstreeter.com Global
LaborPraxisWorldwide Global
AiopLazio
IT
Alpha Galileo
IT
I malati Invisibili IT
LiberoGossip
IT
Meteoweb
IT
QuotidianoSanità IT
SuperAbile
IT
Uni Roma Tor Vergata IT
Zazoom
IT
LinaresQuinto Perou
News Medical
LifeSciences UK
Semiengineering.com USA
Examples of Publications per Country
The list of all publications including the links is on the previous page.
One publication per country is shown as example hereafter.
Austria
AU Australia
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CH Switzerland
ES Spain
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Europe
DE Germany
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IT Italy
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UK United Kingdom
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US United States
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Contact: Prof. Ángel Diéguez, Coordinator, Universitat de Barcelona
+34 93 403 91 49 [email protected] Annette Locher, Communication Manager, FSRM
+41 32 720 09 03 [email protected]
www.chipscope.eu
The ChipScope project receives 3.75 M€ funding from the European Union’s Research Programme Horizon 2020.