These problems are reaching epidemic proportions: Diabetes alone is expected to affect some 360 million people worldwide by the year 2030. While anyone who has…
Cattle, deer, sheep, goats and other ruminant animals depend on a slew of naturally occurring bacteria to aid digestion of grass and other fibrous plants in…
Hurricane Katrina was the cause of more than 200 onshore releases of petroleum and other hazardous materials, a new study funded by the National Science…
The “gasification” process developed by this team of researchers not only greatly reduces greenhouse gas emissions, but doubles the amount of fuel that can be…
Several screens side by side, each with its own mouse and keyboard. Until now, this has been the norm in the control room of interventional suites, where…
“For the design of quantum computers, you need good quantum bits as information carriers,” says physicist Martin Kamp. So what constitutes a good quantum bit?…
These findings are surprising as when steroids are administered via the lungs there is only minimal absorption outside the respiratory tract. This is the first…
Most quinones, with coenzyme Q10 as their best known representative, are seen as very efficient radical scavengers and antioxidants, commonly acting in a way…
Production of a biosensor, comprising the deposition of a redox mediator on the working electrode of a sensor and coating the redox mediator with an aqueous…
The invention relates to an enzymatic-chemical method for
obtaining polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) or the copolymers thereof, from biomass. The inventive method…
The invention in the field of biotechnology relates to a process for the preparation of functionalized di- or tri-carboxylic acids. The method is usually…
Method for simultaneous detection of different nucleic acid
molecules. The innovation is an electrochemical detection method for nucleic acids, which makes it…
Process for determining hydrogen concentration of fluid media
comprises using a sensor comprising a supported hydrogen
…
The invention relates to the microbial synthesis of polyhydroxy
alcanoic acids (PHB) from substrates which are potentially
…
A new method was developed for influencing living cells through cell-surface interaction. Living cells are functionalized with magnetic particles and their…
The patented invention refers to a hetero-structure bipolar
transistor. The component has been designed for the use with
…