Scientists of Saarland University have recently succeeded in developing the first CYP11B1 inhibitors showing good selectivity. As starting point the highly…
Most quinones, with coenzyme Q10 as their best known representative, are seen as very efficient radical scavengers and antioxidants, commonly acting in a way…
Many fluorescent dyes are based upon chromophores with a highly delocalised pi-system. Especially functional rylene type dyes are of great technical importance…
An innovative cell based MMP bioassay was invented enabling high through-put screening of novel MMP inhibitors. The method is based on the heterologous…
Scientists of Saarland University have developed a setup, which allows a controlled manipulation of cells via cell‐surface‐interaction. Therefore biocompatible…
This invention exploits the surprising and remarkable highly efficient nerve regeneration capabilities of histones, thus constituting an exceptionally…
To be published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the research provides the blueprint for a nuclear clock that would get its extreme accuracy from the…
The researchers, led by Kenneth G. Miller, professor of earth and planetary sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University, reached their…
In collaboration with the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepathology at University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Wake Forest Medical Center,…
“Mud samples boiled in acid sounds like witchcraft,” admits microbiologist Bente Lomstein from the Department of Bioscience when explaining how she and an…
Yet bacteria are only part of the story. Viruses that infect those bacteria also shape who we are. Frederic D. Bushman, PhD, professor of Microbiology at the…
The number of American children leaving doctors’ offices with an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis has risen 66 percent in 10 years,…
Technology alone won't help the world turn away from fossil fuel-based energy sources, says University of Oregon sociologist Richard York. In a newly published…
Nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from wells drilled using polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits, originally developed nearly 30 years ago to…
In addition, the radiation process causes the lunar soil, or regolith, to darken over time, which is important in understanding the geologic history of the…
The vehicles will be built at the Siemens plant in Munich-Allach and delivered to the customer in December 2013. The Vectron is the new generation of Siemens…