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CeBIT 2012

Wireless Bicycle Brake Prototype Unveiled at Cebit 2012

In view of that fact, computer scientists at Saarland University are designing mathematical calculations to check such systems automatically. The scientists…

Life & Chemistry

Natural method for clearing cellular debris provides new targets for lupus treatment

Now Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report that an enzyme known to help keep a woman's immune system from attacking a fetus also helps block…

Studies and Analyses

Characteristics of fathers with depressive symptoms

In contrast, there is a profound paucity of information about depressive symptoms in fathers according to a follow up study by NYU School of Medicine…

Technology Offerings

New Species-Independent Method for Detecting Biological Material

The SAPD-PCR (Specific amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR) is a species-independent detection method that allows the determination of the genetic relationship of…

Technology Offerings

Improvement of cell transfection & infection

The successful transfection or infection is a limiting factor in the development of a cell line, which is to be used for heterologous protein expression or for…

Technology Offerings

New Anti-Inflammatory Compound Class Targets Selectins

Selectins (cell adhesion molecules) exhibit functional importance in pathophysiological states of the immune and cardiovascular systems which makes them…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Catheter Solution for Preterm PPROM Treatment

Preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) is one of the leading causes of perinatal morbidity and mortality. It complicates 3% of pregnancies and is…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Catheter Solution for Fetal Urinary Tract Obstruction

Fetal congenital lower urinary tract obstructions affect between 1:250 to 1:1000 pregnancies and are often associated with high perinatal mortality and varying…

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Method for isolation & accumulation of small RNAs for clinical marker development

A large part of gene regulation in eukaryotes takes place at the level of RNA-molecules. A group of endogenous regulatory RNA-molecules, the so-called…

Technology Offerings

Nuclear Export Inhibitors: Targeting Tumors and Viruses

Regulated nucleo-cytoplasmic transport of pathobiologically relevant proteins is critical for tumor development and viral diseases. Transport is mediated by…

Technology Offerings

BioPlex-11: New Forensic Method for Low Copy DNA Analysis

Over the past years in the field of forensic medicine creation of DNA profiles with biological traces has gained in importance enormously. Individual-related…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Catalysts for Cost-Effective Fuel Cells at UC Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley, chemists are reimagining catalysts in ways that could have a profound impact on the chemical industry as well as on the…

Environmental Conservation

Ecosystem Modelers Crack Mystery of Environmental Change

As scientists warn that the Earth is on the brink of a period of mass extinctions, they are struggling to identify ecosystem responses to environmental change….

Life & Chemistry

Controlling Protein Function With Nanotechnology

In their new study, published in the Feb. 2 online edition of the journal Nano Letters, the researchers developed a new tool to determine the orientation of…

Health & Medicine

Injectable Gel Promises Heart Attack Tissue Repair

The study by Karen Christman and colleagues appears in the Feb. 21 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Christman is a professor in the…

Life & Chemistry

Winter Life Thrives in Arctic Seas: New Scientific Insights

Despite brutal cold and lingering darkness, life in the frigid waters off Alaska does not grind to a halt in the winter as scientists previously suspected….

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