Many scientists were in one room for several days. The result? Heads full of new ideas, inspiration, and an exciting exchange. This is also the aim of the MLZ conference “Neutrons for Energy Storage.”

Up to three percent of people with diabetes have an allergic reaction to insulin. A team at Forschungszentrum Jülich has now investigated a method that could be used to deliver the active ingredient into the body in a masked form – in the form of tiny nanoparticles. The insulin is only released in the target organ when the pH value deviates from the slightly alkaline environment in the blood. The molecular transport system could also serve as a platform to release other drugs in the body precisely at the target site.

Dr. Iaroslav Meleshenkovskii has received the 2024 Young Scientist Award of the International Committee on Activation Analysis at the 16th International Conference on Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (MTAA-16) for his research on recycling rare magnets.