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• Exhibitors very satisfied with the most international ACHEMA ever
  The ACHEMA 2012 closed its doors on Friday, with numbers of exhibitors and visitors having remained stable. For five days, 167,000 participants found out about the ranges of the 3,773 exhibitors, w...
• Removing estrogen from drinking water
  A biological filter to remove estrogens from waste water and drinking water. The 15 Bielefeld students submitting this project to the 'international Genetically Engineered Machine competition' (iGE...
• How bacteria change movement direction in response to oxygen: Molecular interactions unravelled
  How single cell organisms like bacteria manage to react to their environment is not yet completely understood. Together with colleagues from Japan, Dr. Samir El-Mashtoly from the RUB Department of ...
• How many cells can our Blood tolerate?
  When people say "Blood is thicker than water," they are literally right. Because nearly half of the 'life liquid' consists of solid components. The red blood cells form the greatest part of it - al...
• How plants make cocaine
  Cocaine is one of the most commonly used (and abused) plant-derived drugs in the world, but we have almost no modern information on how plants produce this complex alkaloid. Researchers from the Ma...
• New plaster enhances wound healing
  Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a plaster that accelerates wound healing and is easily removed from the wound at any time. Burn victims in particular may profit from this invention in the ...
• Silkmoth inspires novel explosive detector
  mitating the antennas of the silkmoth, Bombyx mori, to design a system for detecting explosives with unparalleled performance is the feat achieved by a team from the "Nanomatériaux pour Systèmes so...
• Analytik Jena Austria GmbH founded in Austria
  With effect from 1st of June 2012, the distribution partner of Analytik Jena AG in Austria, LZS-Concept Handels- und Service GmbH, trades under the new name Analytik Jena Austria GmbH. Analytik Jen...
• Platform for Detector Technologies and Systems
  The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) adds its competences in the field of detector technologies and systems to the Helmholtz Association's new research platform bearing the same name. Th...
• PAMAS celebrates 20th anniversary - Exploring new markets for optical particle measurement
  On June 1st, 2012, the German company PAMAS GmbH, focused on particle measuring and analysing systems, celebrates its 20th anniversary. PAMAS develops, manufactures and distributes liquid particle ...