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New Method Accelerates Gas Detection and Identification

Prof. Schütze of Saarland University and his employees developed a method for fast detection and identification of gases and gas mixtures after the power-up of…

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Innovative Rotary Rate Sensor Breakthrough at Saarland University

In the Department of Micromechanics of Saarland University a novel concept of rotary rate sensors with cross-coupled oscillators was developed.

This concept…

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New Hail Sensor Innovates Automatic Weather Monitoring

The hail sensor developed by Prof. Dr. Löffler-Mang at University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken is suitable for the automatic registration of hail and for…

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Molecular Marker Boosts Minimally Invasive Brain Tumor Diagnostics

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”) en-ables the exact determination of the loss…

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Single-Chamber Electrophoresis: A New Approach to Analysis

The new Electrophoresis System allows the analytic separation of proteins and nucleic acids and the following production of purified molecule groups without…

Information Technology

Unlocking Fingerprints: New Tech Reveals Hidden Clues

The new technology also can distinguish between overlapping fingerprints left by different individuals – a difficult task for current optical forensic methods.A team led by R. Graham Cooks, Purdue's Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry, has created a tool that reads and provides an image of a fingerprint's chemical signature. The technology can be used to determine what a person recently handled. …

Environmental Conservation

New Study Links Climate Change to Extreme Rainfall Events

Climate models have long predicted that global warming will increase the intensity of extreme precipitation events. A new study conducted at the University of…

Environmental Conservation

Pacific Shellfish Set to Invade Northern Atlantic Waters

As the Arctic Ocean warms this century, shellfish, snails and other animals from the Pacific Ocean will resume an invasion of the northern Atlantic that was…

Physics & Astronomy

New Simulations Reveal Unique Features of Our Solar System

The solar system, it turns out, is pretty special indeed. The study illustrates that if early conditions had been just slightly different, very unpleasant…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Future of Cooling: Compressor-Free Refrigerators on the Horizon

“This is the first step in the development of an electric field refrigeration unit,” says Qiming Zhang, distinguished professor of electrical engineering. “For…

Health & Medicine

B Cells: Key Players in Autoimmune Disease Uncovered

In the Aug. 7 online issue of the journal of Immunity, Yale University researchers turn this paradigm on its head by showing that in systemic autoimmune…

Studies and Analyses

Clean Three-Way Split Observed in Chemistry Breakthrough

In chemistry as in life, threesomes are not known to break up neatly.And while open-minded thinkers have insisted that clean three-way splits do happen, nobody…

Life & Chemistry

Dachshund Gene Mutation Could Lead to Blindness Therapies

In a study published online in Genome Research (www.genome.org), researchers have identified a novel mutation in a gene associated with CRD in dogs, raising…

Life & Chemistry

Ricin’s Deadly Action Revealed by Glowing Probes

The probe, developed by chemists at UC San Diego, glows when bound to a ricin-damaged part of the body’s protein-making machinery, they report in the…

Life & Chemistry

Improved Reaction Data Boosts Biofuels Harvest Efficiency

But today's processes are notoriously inefficient. In a new paper,* researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have detailed some…

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