All News

Technology Offerings

Discover the Redoxcyclic Sensor for Ultra-Low Concentration Detection

The invention consists of an electrochemical measuring cell with redox mediators for measuring very low concentrations. Nevertheless, by means of designing…

Technology Offerings

New Inhibitors Target 11beta-HSD1 for Diabetes and Metabolic Health

The crucial point in glucocorticoid related diseases, including type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, hyperglycaemia, arteriosclerosis, dementia,…

Technology Offerings

New Agents Targeting Common Colds and Coronaviral Diseases

Human coronaviruses (HcoV) are the major cause of diseases of the upper respiratory tract in humans. Apart from the common cold these include e.g. the…

Technology Offerings

Laryngeal Mask: Simplifying Intubation with Integrated Tube

Laryngeal mask to secure the airways, allowing fast, easy to handle and inexpensive intubation with a standard endotracheal tube.Further Information: PDF Patent- und Verwertungsagentur für die Wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen in Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (PVA SH)…

Health & Medicine

Acrylamide in Food Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk

“Animal tests have shown acrylamide to be a carcinogen, but until recently no studies have demonstrated a link between acrylamide in foods and cancer in…

Life & Chemistry

Siberian Jays: Communicating About Bird of Prey Threats

Many animal species are exposed daily to the risk of being killed by a predator. Certain apes and marmots have developed specific alarm calls that communicate…

Information Technology

VTT's APROS software is renewed to simulate nuclear power plants of the future

According to the main designer of the APROS software, Dr Kaj Juslin, Chief Research Scientist at VTT, it is developed to suite analysis needs of evolving new…

Business and Finance

Exploring European Economic History: Insights from GlobalEuroNet

GlobalEuroNet, the Globalizing Europe Economic History Network, runs from 2006 to 2010. It was set up to promote scientific cooperation among historians and…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble finds that “blue blobs” in space are orphaned clusters of stars

Finding blue blobs in space sounds like an encounter with an alien out of a science fiction movie. But the powerful NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has…

Awards Funding

Astronomers and Geophysicists Awarded RAS Medals and Prizes

The Gold Medal for Astronomy is awarded to Professor Joseph Silk FRS of the Nuclear and Astrophysics Laboratory at the University of Oxford. This is awarded in…

Information Technology

Advancements in Chip Miniaturization: Exploring CMOS Innovations

The first generation of CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) chips were based on a design process with lithographic features defining regions inside…

Social Sciences

New technology watches granny’s step

Cardiovascular aerobics, package cruises in the Greek islands and high calcium diets. Today’s silver brigade may well be the most active in history, but there…

Power and Electrical Engineering

European Microwave Tech Initiative: Strengthening Collaboration

This is an important step for the European Microwave community. Experiences from other sectors clearly demonstrate the importance and impact of collaboration…

Information Technology

E-Insurance Innovations: Navigating Mobility in Europe

The ability to move freely between Member States is one very concrete outcome of greater union in Europe. But with mobility comes potential insecurity. What…

Studies and Analyses

Carrot Cake Study Reveals Sugar Insights for Type 2 Diabetes

Patients with type 2 diabetes are often advised to cut out sucrose (table sugar) all together. However, in recent years this traditional advice has been…

Business and Finance

Cass Researcher Wins UK-China Fellowship for Market Study

There are 25 Research Fellowships awarded each year which enable researchers to spend between three months and a year working with a Chinese institution….

Feedback