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Electronic Censor Enhances Patient Privacy in Research

Patient records that are to be shared within the research community must have any identifying information removed. Manual removal of identifying information is…

Environmental Conservation

Cow Power: Harnessing Manure for Sustainable Energy Solutions

The journal paper, ‘Cow Power: The Energy and Emissions Benefits of Converting Manure to Biogas’, has implications for all countries with livestock as it is…

Event News

Japanese-German Forum Highlights Innovations at Micromachine/MEMS

Japan and Germany hold a worldwide leading position in this area. At the Exhibition Micromachine/MEMS, the largest trade fair for applied microsystems…

Event News

New Product Introduction Aerospace & Defense

Jet Fuel for Rising Shares in Aerospace & Defense Market: Rapid New Product Introduction ProcessesThe aerospace and defense (A&D) market is changing rapidly…

Technology Offerings

Innovative RBL-Cell Lines Overexpress Chemokine Receptors

Scientists of the University of Göttingen developed many different transfectant RBL-celllines which are overexpressing different Chemokine receptors like CCR5,…

Technology Offerings

RBL-C5aR cell line

Scientists at the University of Göttingen developed a transfectant RBL-C5aR cell line which is able to express more than 1 million C5a receptors on its cell…

Information Technology

10-Kilo Phone Network: A Lifeline in Disasters

When disaster strikes communications are often one of the first infrastructures to go down. But it is exactly when effective communications are most…

Medical Engineering

Meet Robo Habilis: Advancements in Robotic Arm Technology

“Hollywood did a bad job for us,” says Patrick van der Smagt, the coordinator of SENSOPAC, an EU-funded project whose goal is to create a robotic arm, hand and…

Health & Medicine

Innovative new treatments take fear out of dentist’s chair

Professor Jennifer Kirkham, Research Director of Leeds Dental Institute explains: “The laboratory is looking to find safe new ways to control plaque which do…

Awards Funding

Open Access to Large-Scale Drug Discovery Data Funded by Wellcome

The Wellcome Trust has awarded £4.7 million (€5.8 million) to EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) to support the transfer of a large collection…

Life & Chemistry

Discover the Artificial Lotus Effect for Self-Cleaning Surfaces

Never wash your car again? Never clean your windows? These may well become reality if it becomes possible to produce the right coatings—coatings that imitate…

Power and Electrical Engineering

EU Targets Standby Energy Waste in Appliances

All household and office equipment sold in Europe will be included in this measure. This provision of the European Union is the first legal act concerning…

Health & Medicine

Water-Filtered Infrared-A: Enhancing Topical Substance Absorption

Unlike other penetration increasing procedures (which are based e.g. on a mechanical or chemical alteration of the skin), an irradiation with wIRA maintains…

Environmental Conservation

Air Quality Forecasts: Impact on China’s Olympic Athletes

Poor air quality could pose problems for the Olympic athletes and hinder the performance of those competing outdoors in endurance sports, such as cycling and…

Environmental Conservation

Durham Scientists Launch Carbon Storage Group to Combat CO2

The University has launched the Carbon Storage Research Group, which will be led by the newly-created position of Professor of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)…

Health & Medicine

Reduced Dose Anthracycline: No Impact on Breast Cancer Outcomes

The study, undertaken at the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, found that women with early stage breast cancer treated with up to 4 courses of…

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