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Physics & Astronomy

Zooming to the centre of the Milky Way — GigaGalaxy Zoom phase 2

This 34 by 20-degree wide image provides us with a view as experienced by amateur astronomers around the world. However, its incredible beauty and appeal owe…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Approaches to Treat Depression During Pregnancy

Depression is not uncommon in pregnant women. Between 14 and 23% of pregnant women will experience a depressive disorder while pregnant. In 2003, approximately…

Earth Sciences

"Rosetta Stone" of supervolcanoes discovered in Italian Alps

A fossil supervolcano has been discovered in the Italian Alps' Sesia Valley by a team led by James E. Quick, a geology professor at Southern Methodist…

Life & Chemistry

Blocking Acetylcholine May Halt Colon Cancer Growth

In her dissertation at Kalmar University in Sweden, Ann Novotny has found that the signal molecule acetylcholine (ACh) is important for the progress of cancer…

Business and Finance

Banks Adapt Strategies Amid Crisis: A Look at the 1990s

During the 1990s financial crisis, Swedish banks were criticised in the media for causing unnecessary corporate bankruptcies through, for example, increased…

Event News

Exploring Media Influence in the Middle East: Power and Ideology

The role political and economic powers play in shaping media discourses from viewpoints of religion, ideology and control in the Middle East will be the topic…

Studies and Analyses

SMU Professors Discover Breathing Technique to Alleviate Asthma

As the health care reform debate turns to cutting costs and improving treatment outcomes, two professors at Southern Methodist University in Dallas are…

Physics & Astronomy

A tiny, tunable well of light, and a string theorist's toolbox

A Tiny, Tunable Well of LightPhotonics, the science of using photons to carry information, promises to continue improving a wide variety of technologies, from…

Health & Medicine

Balance Organs Influence Brain Blood Flow, Study Reveals

“ICU-related muscle weakness is the number one factor in prolonging a patient's recovery and delaying their return to a normal life, including work and…

Studies and Analyses

Minimal Training Boosts Airway Mask Effectiveness in Emergencies

A study, published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine, also found that just two hours of training was enough to make first-responders faster and…

Trade Fair News

Economical Automation in Laser Materials Processing Solutions

It enables a comprehensive automation of the process chain including all assembly and production steps and is particularly appropriate for small series. In…

Technology Offerings

FNTB-SNPs – Functional genetic polymorphism (SNPs) in the human farnesyltransferase (FNTB)- gene for pharmacogenetic application

Enclosed are new functionally relevant SNPs in the regulatory sequences of the human farnesyltransferase (FNTB)-gene, which encodes for the β-subunit of an…

Technology Offerings

Upgrade Optical Ring Networks with RingoStar WDM Technology

The technology enables the evolutionary upgrading of existing single channel optical ring Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) to wavelength division multiplexing…

Technology Offerings

High-Performance Quantum-Cascade Laser for Gas Detection

We offer a new type of semiconductor quantum-well inter-subband device, with a unique materials combination and sequence with very large energetic separation…

Technology Offerings

EukaResist – Enhanced stress tolerance & increased harvest yield by iso-enzyme replacement

Method for enhancement of general stress resistance, based on improved reductant supply (NADPH) in the cytosol via Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH). …

Technology Offerings

Pucci-Tase – New deacetylase for the industrial production of high-quality chitosan

Chitosan has a broad spectrum of industrial applications ranging from contact lenses and matrices for tissue engineering to immobilisation membranes for…

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