The work group of Prof. Dr. Eckart Meese at Saarland University identified special features of tumour cells that could constitute a basis for an improved…
The establishing of a viable line of mice, which are not able to produce TRPM4-proteins („TRPM4-knock-out-mice”) enables the exact determination of the loss of…
The invention consists of a new system for the expression of proteins in E. coli and its applications.
Compared to the state of the art the new autodisplay…
A novel yeast expression system was developed in the lab of Prof. Manfred Schmitt from the Department of Applied Molecular Biology of the Saarland University…
The invention affects the novel bacterial enzyme 1,5-anhydro-D-fructose-reductase. In a regio- and stereoselective reaction 1,5-anhydro-D-fructose (AF) is…
The finding quashes the misperception that plants are “sitting ducks”–at the mercy of passing pathogens–and sheds new light on a sophisticated signaling…
Led by Dr. Rodrigo M. Lago of the Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Mass., the researchers analyzed the relationship between serum sodium levels and blood…
The three-quarter-acre site – which includes rare dinosaur tail-drag marks – provides more evidence there were wet intervals during the Early Jurassic Period,…
Theoretical proof of stable and measurable states extending over two quantum dots and creating offspring has now been provided for the first time. This…
Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have, for the first time, succeeded in rendering the spatial distribution of individual atoms in a…
The German research vessel Polarstern has returned today to Bremerhaven from the Arctic Sea. It has cruised as the first research vessel ever both the…
”The climate in the northern regions has never been milder since the last Ice Age than it was about 6000-7000 years ago. We still don’t know whether the Arctic…
In a lecture entitled Research in Hertfordshire that has made a difference at the Showcase tomorrow (Tuesday 21 October) at 8.30pm, Professor Kirby from the…
These are the preliminary results from an ongoing analysis at Stockholm University (Department of Systems Ecology, Baltic Nest Institute at Stockholm…
Taking Sweden and the whole Baltic Sea region as examples, the study shows also that the reported Swedish loads of nitrogen and phosphorous to the Baltic Sea…
The cities that comprise this diagonal “are the economic leaders of southern Europe” and have been the most dynamic in the region over recent years. However,…