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Life & Chemistry

Exploring Foodborne Pathogens at SGM 161st Meeting

The plenary session is entitled Food, fluids, fingers, faeces and flies: food and waterborne pathogens and includes some fascinating presentations.Hepatitis E…

Technology Offerings

Microtiter Plate: A New Fed Batch Reactor Innovation

Invention

The Chair of Biochemical Engineering at RWTH Aachen
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Technology Offerings

Microtiterplate Innovation: Advancing Fed-Batch Fermentation

A novel fermentation method for fed-batch operating

conditions, based on microtiterplates (MTPs) was developed at the Dept. of Biochemical Engineering, RWTH…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists find elusive waves in sun's corona

Scientists for the first time have observed elusive oscillations in the Sun's corona, known as Alfvén waves, that transport energy outward from the surface of…

Life & Chemistry

One species' entire genome discovered inside another's

Scientists at the University of Rochester and the J. Craig Venter Institute have discovered a copy of the entire genome of a bacterial parasite residing inside…

Health & Medicine

New Insights on Knee Injuries: Pigs Help Shape Treatments

These findings in experiments with pigs may lead to treatments for injuries or osteoarthritis in the knee, according to Duke University Medical Center…

Physics & Astronomy

Rovers Face Challenges in Martian Dust Storm: New Images Revealed

To understand the gravity of the storm, engineers and astronomers monitor the situation by examining the images of the sun and measuring the amount of dust or…

Life & Chemistry

Neurotransmitters don't travel between cells through electrical current

These results were reported July 22 in the online edition of the journal Nature Cell Biology by Cornell researchers Liang-Wei Gong and Manfred Lindau, applied…

Life & Chemistry

University of Pennsylvania Uncovers Lymphoma Growth Mechanism

Researchers found that PAX5 stimulates the growth of cancerous tumors by spurring cell division normally observed during B cell immune response. In a sense,…

Environmental Conservation

NASA Satellites Enhance Understanding of Coastal Water Quality

The team’s findings, published July 30 in two papers in Remote Sensing of Environment, will help tease out factors that drive changes in coastal water quality….

Health & Medicine

Norwalk virus: 'Cruise ship' illness challenging and costly to hospitals, too

A review of measures taken to address a 2004 outbreak of the highly infectious Norwalk virus at The Johns Hopkins Hospital has provided the first solid…

Life & Chemistry

Discovery could help stop malaria at its source — the mosquito

If this link in the chain of infection can be broken at its source — the mosquito — then the spread of malaria could be stopped without any man, woman, or…

Life & Chemistry

Drones Use New Odorant Receptor to Locate Queen Pheromones

Now a research team led by the University of Illinois has identified an odorant receptor that allows male drones to find a queen in flight. The receptor, on…

Life & Chemistry

Microfluidic Chambers Enhance Neuron Growth Research

The technique is described this month in the journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry – Lab on a Chip.“This finding will be very positively greeted by the…

Life & Chemistry

New Strategies to Combat Antibiotic Resistance Unveiled

With infections increasingly resistant to even the most modern antibiotics, researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical…

Physics & Astronomy

New Rover Observations on Martian Atmosphere Changes

Thanasis Economou, Senior Scientist at Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute, suggested the new study after observing that the APXS instruments aboard NASA's twin…

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