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Life & Chemistry

White Meets Blue – Enzymicals AG and the Institute of Marine Biotechnologye.V. start to cooperate

The signed contract includes the joint use of innovative technologies for the identification and production of novel enzymes from aquatic sources,amongst…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Harnessing Sunlight: Innovative Sollectors for Rooftops

The latest issue of the research magazine “Pictures of the Future” features a report on how this is to be achieved. Sunlight is collected by “sollectors” on…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Sunlight-Powered Air Conditioning: A Greener Cooling Solution

Air conditioning systems contribute a lot to CO2 emissions in these hot regions. About 60 percent of the electricity consumed in Indian office buildings on…

Environmental Conservation

LEGATO – a major international project on sustainable development of rice ecosystems in SE Asia

LEGATO stands for ‘Land-use intensity and Ecological Engineering – Assessment Tools for risks and Opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems’ and…

Technology Offerings

Enhancing Photosensitizer Water Solubility with Polymers

At Saarland University, a procedure has been developed that allows a significant enhancement of water solubility of photosensitizers of the porphyrin and…

Technology Offerings

New Non-Steroidal Inhibitors of 17β-HSD2 Developed

Scientists of Saarland University have recently succeeded in developing an improved series of new non-steroidal inhibitors of 17b-HSD2. Since 17b-HSD2 is…

Technology Offerings

Biosynthese-Gene für die Herstellung von Etnangien

Etnangien is an antibiotic compound, which inhibits the activity of RNA-polymerases in bacteria.

In view of the fermentation process for etnangien using a…

Technology Offerings

Transforming Biogas: Innovative Biocoal Production Explained

The present invention permits to produce biocoal by charging coal particles with minerals obtained from the processing fluid of biogas plants. The invention is…

Environmental Conservation

New Species Constellations Transform Ecosystems Worldwide

An article by Professor David Wardle at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Umeå in collaboration with researchers in the UK, the US, and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fraunhofer IWES Launches New Facility for XXL Rotor Blade Testing

The construction work took one and half years and the new 20,000 square meter facility doubles the existing capacity for testing complete rotor blades. A…

Environmental Conservation

An analyzer to measure the quantity and size of pollutants and aerosols in smoke emission

CMU researchers invented an analyzer capable of measuring the quantity and size of pollutants and aerosols in smoke emissions, providing an equally accurate,…

Life & Chemistry

Wood-Digesting Enzyme Found in Bacteria Boosts Biofuel Potential

This research, carried out by teams at the Universities of Warwick and British Columbia, could make sustainable sources of biofuels, such as woody plants and…

Health & Medicine

New Urine Test Identifies Key Proteins for Early Cancer Diagnosis

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have identified key proteins in the urine of patients with advanced cancers.The findings could help the detection of…

Life & Chemistry

New Parallelization Technique Enhances Biological Modeling Efficiency

The technique improved the efficiency of algorithms used to build models of biological systems more than seven-fold, creating more realistic models that can…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Integrating Agriculture and Forestry for Effective REDD Strategies

Evidence from benchmark sites across the tropics is proving that an integrated, multifunctional approach that allows for land-use sharing in agriculture,…

Health & Medicine

B Vitamins in Mother’s Diet Reduce Colorectal Cancer Risk in Offspring

Previous research in humans and mice suggests that B vitamins, particularly folate, play a role in the prevention of colorectal cancer. Using a mouse model of…

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