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» Search accurate expression '""Universit'- New State-of-the-Art Sequencer at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin
Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed the start button for a new state-of-the-art DNA sequencer during her visit on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB)... - How the N2O Greenhouse Gas Is Decomposed
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a harmful climate gas. Its effect as a greenhouse gas is 300 times stronger than that of carbon dioxide. Nitrous oxide destroys the ozone layer. In industrial agriculture, it... - High-tech microscope measures electron oscillations
Researchers from Bielefeld, Kaiserslautern and Würzburg have developed a novel high-tech microscope: It magnifies objects a million times and shows movements with a retardation of one million billi... - Professor Matthias Kling receives Röntgen Prize 2011
Professor Matthias Kling, leader of the "Attosecond Imaging" Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching (near Munich), has received this year's Röntgen Prize from the Ju... - Research expedition to Fukushima seeks to unveil genetic and ecological effects of radiation on animals and plants
A new international scientific expedition led by the University of South Carolina and supported by the biotechnology company QIAGEN is seeking to measure the genetic impact of radioactivity on anim... - Mössbauer Group of Mainz University is preparing for participation in Japanese Moon mission
The Mössbauer Group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany, has made a significant contribution towards the exploration of Mars during its long-term cooperation with the US space age... - Fermentation research groups start the worldwide research challenge "BlueCompetition"
The project phase of the international scientific challenge "BlueCompetition" organized by BlueSens Gas Sensor GmbH is about to begin. The company received project proposals from research groups in... - New method for imaging molecules inside cells
Using a new sample holder, researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have further developed a new method for imaging individual cells. This makes it possible to produce snapshots that no... - Cutting-edge Research using the Electron Microscope: Ernst Ruska Price 2011 for Researchers from Belgium and USA
Dr. Johan Verbeeck, Physicist from Antwerp (Belgium), and Prof. Dr. David Mastronarde, Cell Biologist from Boulder, Colorado (USA), will receive the Ernst Ruska Price 2011 of the Deutsche Gesellsch... - Plastic products leach toxic substances
Many plastic products contain hazardous chemicals that can leach to the surroundings. In studies conducted at the University of Gothenburg, a third of the tested plastic products released toxic sub... - Observing molecules at the nano scale
Scientists at the Reference- and Translation Center for Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy at the University of Rostock (RTC) are now able to visualize molecules with a microscope system with a localization... - Universal detector made of DNA building blocks
A method for detecting such diverse substances as antibiotics, narcotics and explosives - a universal detector, so to speak - has been developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polym... - Start of a worldwide scientific competition for bioprocesses
Scientific workgroups from research institutions all over the world can now register for the so called "BlueCompetition", run by BlueSens gas sensor GmbH. The German manufacturer of gas analyzers f... - Novel High-Resolution Methods in Fluorescence Microscopy
Physical limits in high-resolution light microscopy can be overcome with the aid of chemical reactions. Scientists at Heidelberg University's Institute of Physical Chemistry and members of the Clus... - Atomic antennae transmit quantum information across a microchip
The Austrian research group led by physicist Rainer Blatt suggests a fundamentally novel architecture for quantum computation. They have experimentally demonstrated quantum antennae, which enable t... - Proteins find their way with address label and guide
Most newly produced proteins in a cell need to be transported to the proper place before they can be put to work. For proteins to find their way, they have a built-in signal linked to them, a kind ... - Pollution with antibiotics leads to resistant bacteria
Many of the substances in our most common medicines are manufactured in India. Some of these factories release huge quantities of drugs to the environment. Swedish scientists now show that bacteria... - British chemist recognized as leader in mass spectrometry
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announce Carol V. Robinson, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK, as... - PerkinElmer Acquires chemagen Biopolymer-Technologie AG
PerkinElmer, Inc. announced that it has acquired chemagen Biopolymer-Technologie AG, a key player in the field of automated nucleic acid isolation, as part of the Company's strategy to advance its ... - Laboratory for Molecular Exercise Physiology at Mainz University is up and running
Specialists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany develop tests to detect gene doping and individual exercise concepts for therapeutic purposes as well as for popular sports and for high-... - Electric Signals Amplify Weak Olfactory Stimuli in the Nose
The human olfactory system possesses a special electric amplification mechanism that enables olfactory cells to respond even to extremely weak stimuli. Scientists at Heidelberg University headed by... - BSE pathogens can be transmitted by air
Airborne prions are also infectious and can induce mad cow disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disorder. This is the surprising conclusion of researchers at the University of Zurich, the University Hospit... - New insights from the nano world: Direct observation of carbon monoxide binding
Carbon monoxide is highly toxic since it blocks the binding site for oxygen in hemoglobin. This very principle - a porphyrin ring with a central iron or cobalt atom that the poisonous gas attaches ... - Environmental contaminants in foodstuffs
The final report of the research project "Foodborne exposure to environmental contaminants" (LExUKon) is now available. In this project scientists of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)... - LGC Standards continues global expansion with first office in Dubai
LGC Standards has opened its first branch office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This latest expansion into new territories follows on from our 2009 opening of offices in China and Russia.LGC Stand...