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Molecular Marker Enhances Minimized Diagnosis of Brain Tumors

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…

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Transgenic Mice Uncover Insights on TRPM4 Protein Loss

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…

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New Whole Cell Biocatalysts Enhance Protein Expression in E. coli

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…

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New Viral Expression System Boosts Hybrid VLP Production

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…

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New Enzyme Enhances 1,5-Anhydro-D-Fructose Reactions

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…

Life & Chemistry

Plants Signal Microbial Allies for Defense Against Attack

The finding quashes the misperception that plants are “sitting ducks”–at the mercy of passing pathogens–and sheds new light on a sophisticated signaling…

Health & Medicine

Blood Sodium Levels Show No Impact on Blood Pressure

Led by Dr. Rodrigo M. Lago of the Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Mass., the researchers analyzed the relationship between serum sodium levels and blood…

Earth Sciences

Discover Dinosaur Dance Floor: Evidence of Early Jurassic Wetlands

The three-quarter-acre site – which includes rare dinosaur tail-drag marks – provides more evidence there were wet intervals during the Early Jurassic Period,…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Physics – What Darwin Missed

Theoretical proof of stable and measurable states extending over two quantum dots and creating offspring has now been provided for the first time. This…

Physics & Astronomy

Visualizing Quantum Gases: New Insights from Mainz Scientists

Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have, for the first time, succeeded in rendering the spatial distribution of individual atoms in a…

Earth Sciences

Polarstern Completes Historic Arctic Research Voyage

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…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Ocean Ice Levels 6000-7000 Years Ago Explored

”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…

Health & Medicine

Erectile Dysfunction Links to Increased Heart Attack Risk

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…

Environmental Conservation

Fisheries Management Boosts Baltic Cod Amid Environmental Change

These are the preliminary results from an ongoing analysis at Stockholm University (Department of Systems Ecology, Baltic Nest Institute at Stockholm…

Environmental Conservation

Nutrient Pollution in Baltic Sea: Unmonitored Coastal Impact

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…

Architecture & Construction

Architecture key in constructing a “European diagonal” to boost development in the south

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,…

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