Between 9 September and 6 December of this year, applicants may apply or be nominated for the LUSH Prize 2020. The prize is worth a total of 350,000 British Pound and honours researchers and individuals in the five categories Science, Young Scientists, Training, Public Relations and Lobbying.  

Scientists from the University of Magdeburg together with researchers from Dresden, Jena, Stuttgart and Estonia are working on a project to replace legally prescribed animal experiments in European hydropower plants by robotic fish. With this kind of artificial fish they want to gain information about flow conditions and expected harm to real fish in European river power plants.

With help of the 3D printer, American researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have created a left heart chamber consisting of collagen and myocardial cells, which began to beat on its own within a few days. The scientists have described their development in the magazine "Science".
 

Cardiologist Dr. Timon Seeger from the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology at the University Hospital of Heidelberg has identified mechanisms of a gene mutation that
lead to a misregulation in heart muscle cells and thus to the genetically caused hypertrophycardiomyopathy (HCM). For his findings, the researcher received the renowned Wilhelm P. Winterstein Prize of the German Heart Foundation, endowed with 5,000 euros.