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Electronics from a printer – of electronic radio tags and lighting wallpapers
Glucose meters and the appropriate test strips for diabetics are expensive. This however might change, since scientists at the Institute of Printing Science and Technology (IDD) at TU Darmstadt are working on a sensor making the electronic devices considerably cheaper. The new sensor is not based on silicon as conducting material, but on plastics.
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Stress protein Hsp12 provides a cellular survival mechanism never seen before
Despite clear evidence that Hsp12 - a so-called heat shock or stress protein - helps cells survive life-threatening conditions, how it works was an open question until now. The surprising answer is revealed in the Aug. 27 issue of Molecular Cell, where German researchers explain how they discovered the function of Hsp12, a protective mechanism unlike any previously observed. Unfolded within the cell's aqueous cytosol, Hsp12 folds into helical structures to stabilize the cell membrane.
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New ways of producing biofuel
In the context of a research project funded by the EU, scientists in Güssing (Austria) were the first to demonstrate a thermochemical conversion of solid biomass into biomethane, synthetic natural gas (SNG) respectively, as a fuel for cars.
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Graffinity enters into Drug Discovery Research Collaboration with Genentech
HEIDELBERG, Germany — October 15, 2009 — Graffinity Pharmaceuticals GmbH announced today that it has entered into a drug discovery research collaboration with Genentech, Inc, a wholly-owned member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY). With this collaboration Genentech will gain access to Graffinity’s proprietary, fragment-based drug discovery technology.read more
High-precision machining for highly accurate micro objectives from Leica Microsystems
Successful cooperative networking enables the production of mounted lenses with an extremely high diameter and spacing accuracies.read more
LUMOS – Air-based Monitoring System
A consortium of the Berlin KMU IQ Wireless, BLIC, Scandat and Teltec as well as the German Aerospace Centre and the Fhg institute FIRST responsible for research, has developed a new system for optical data entry of transportation and its processing in real-time including the supply of users with information.read more
Announcement of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of regulations for the funding of research and development projects
in the area of "International Partnerships for Sustainable Technologies and Services for Climate Protection and the Environment" (CLIENT) under the "Research for Sustainable Development" framework programmeread more
Monoclonale Antibodies: Anti-human/anti-rat/anti-mouse C3a-Rezeptor
Scientists at the Georg-August-University produced different monoclonal antibodies directed against the C3a-Receptor which binds to one of the fragments of activated complement factor C3.read more
Monoclonale antibodies: Anti-human/anti-mouse C5a-Rezeptor
Scientists at the Georg-August-University Göttingen produced different monoclonal antibodies directed against the rat CD88 cell surface receptor, also known as C5aR. C5aR functions as a receptor for the C5a fragment of the complement factor C5.These antibodies can be used to identify C5aR in tissue or cultured cells.read more
dyn-fl-OX-Controller - Optimized LC/ICP-MS coupling
The invention provides a time-dynamic flow of oxygen for feeding into 3ICP-MS systems. In coupled LC/ICP-MS sys-tems this allows a solvent gradient to be compensated in the LC. In this case, a dynamic flow of oxygen is firstly optimized empirically at the respective LC gradients - this is started at the same time as the LC/ICP-MS measurement using an appropriate trigger device. A constantly low analyte-oxide-rate and therefore an improved signal-noise ratio are ob-served as a result of using a parallel optimized oxygen flow (cf. figures).read more
