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- Tracing the arsonist
More than 23,000 cases of arson were recorded in Germany in 2011 according to the official police statistics of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. However, only about half of them have been clea... - Making nanolenses from metallic particles and DNA
Conventional lenses can only focus light to a volume on the femtoliter (10-15) range or in other words to dimensions of 1 µm3. This constrain arises from an effect called diffraction, inherent to a... - Lung mucus gel scaffold prevents nanoparticles from getting through
Scientists at the Saarland University and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) unraveled lung mucus's physical properties: They discovered that a rigid gel scaffold in lung mucus separ... - New Combustion Module Offers Additional Applications for Ion Chromatography
Analytik Jena AG presents a novel Combustion Module especially developed for a new Ion Chromatography system of Metrohm AG. The Combustion Ion Chromatography (CIC) represents a fully automated syst... - Researchers Elucidate Transport Pathway of Immune System Substances
To transport substances from the site of their production to their destination, the body needs a sophisticated transport and sorting system. Various receptors in and on the cells recognize certain ... - Filming bacterial life in multicolor as a new diagnostic and antibiotic discovery tool
An international team of scientists led by Indiana University chemist Michael S. Van Nieuwenhze and biologist Yves Brun has discovered a revolutionary new method for coloring the cell wall of bacte... - Genetic protection against arsenic
Evolution has not only controlled human development over millions of years, it also has an impact on modern man. This is one of the conclusions of a study of Argentinian villagers in the Andes, whe... - Antibiotic contamination a threat to humans and the environment
Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, spend August in Sisimiut on the west coast of Greenland studying the prevalence of antibiotic resistance and the effects of antibiotic emissio... - Conference Review: 9th Confocal Raman Imaging Symposium
The worldwide Raman Imaging Community met from 26. - 27. September at the 9th Confocal Raman Imaging Symposium in Ulm, Germany to discuss the latest developments in the field. Featured at this year... - UCB and Proteros expand successful protein x-ray crystallography collaboration
UCB and Proteros biostructures GmbH announced today expansion of their ongoing structural biology collaboration to include additional therapeutic areas. Since 2007, Proteros has supported discovery... - Romer Labs Acquires SDIX Food Safety and GMO Business
Romer Labs, a leading global supplier of food safety diagnostics, announced today it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of the food safety and GMO businesses of Strategic Diagnosti... - Mechanism of aerosol aging identified
tmospheric aerosol particles have a significant effect on climate. An international team of researchers has now discovered that a chemical process in the atmosphere called aging determines to a maj... - The smallest ice crystals in the world
Ice crystals also have small beginnings - even smaller than previously believed. Already 475 water molecules can form a real crystalline structure; initial attempts can be discerned with 275 molecu... - JRC report reviews measurement methods for nanoparticle sizing
A new report by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) presents an in-depth review of methods available to measure the size of nanoparticles. Following the adoption of the definition... - Eurofins acquires of Pan Labs US
Eurofins Scientific announced the signing of an agreement to acquire the Pan Labs pharmacology unit that was formerly operated by Ricerca Biosciences LLC and MDS Pharma. Pan Labs is a leading prov... - Eckert & Ziegler acquires Vitalea Science Inc
Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG, through its Californian subsidiary Eckert & Ziegler Isotope Products, Inc. (EZIP), has entered into a definite agreement with Vitalea Science, Inc.... - The chemical memory of seawater
Water does not forget, says Prof. Boris Koch, a chemist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association. Irrespective of what happens in the sea: whether ...