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… Waste | Resources Responsible mining? Challenges, perspectives and approaches Summary of the findings of the research project „Approaches to reducing negative environmental and social impacts in the production of raw materials (UmSoRess)” The …

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… Chemicals Further development of test methods for hormonally active pharmaceuticals and other substances Sensor cell lines have been developed to monitor rapid … modifying G-protein coupled estrogen receptor (GPER1) expressing cells to become artificial fluorescent signalosomes. Both GPER1 agonists and antagonistic …