Young stars ejecting plasma could give us clues into the Sun’s past Kyoto, Japan — Down here on Earth we don’t usually notice, but the Sun is frequently ejecting huge masses of plasma into space. These are called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). They often occur together with sudden brightenings called flares, and sometimes extend far enough to disturb Earth’s magnetosphere, generating space weather phenomena including auroras or geomagnetic storms, and even damaging power grids on occasion. Scientists believe that when…
GPM is a satellite jointly managed by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. GPM passed over Ida on September 24, 2015 at 0756 UTC (3:35 AM EDT).
The novel combined power-to-gas & Biogas upgrading Technology is producing high-purity methane, carbon dioxide and water in a single membrane separation system.
Device and method to coat particles and powdres of any size and shape by magnetron sputtering. Even particles <1 μm can be coated and film thicknesses from 0.1 to 100 nm achieved. Use of metal or compound materials for adhesive, wear resistant, conductive and catalytic coatings.
A new and convenient synthesis method has been developed for coupling a ligand (e.g. PEG, peptides) through a cleavable disulfide linkage to an oligonucleotide at the 2´ position of a ribose ring. The resulting oligonucleotide conjugates are taken up efficiently into cells without the need for a transfection agent, and the 2´ OH group modification has
a positive impact on stability, allowing natural (phosphodiester) oligonucleotide sequences to be used. Preliminary in vitro experiments have demonstrated effective target gene down-regulation.
Novel synthetic lignans to affect inflammatory processes related to surgical cardiovascular intervention have been identified. The compounds may have highly beneficial effects for preparation of cardiac by-pass implants as well as for stent conduits.
Researchers of TUW and MUW have found that cardiomyocyte-like cells may be obtained not only from omnipotent or pluripotent mammalian cells,
but also from lineage committed cells, such as skeletal myoblasts when cultured in the presence of substituted pyridine- and pyrimidine-compounds.
The invention intends to provide coumarin based nickel-dithiolene complexes, to selectively detect mercury (II) ions in the organism. Based on a Ditholen-ligand, molecules have been developed which can be used to determine the presence of heavy metal ions. Design, manufacture and the properties of a system based on a coumarin nickel dithiolene complex are described, which operates in the wavelength range of ~960 nm with high selectivity and sensitivity for mercury ions even in the presence of other metal ions (eg. Ag+, Al3+, Ca2+, Cu2+, Mg2+, Na+, Sn2+) that can be used in a simple UV / VIS spectroscopy.
The novelty of the present invention is to prevent the disturbance of encryption systems and thus lead to better data se-curity. In addition it is aimed at users who have little or no background knowledge. The inventive approach to security is based on the combination of an LCD display and the encryption method “One Time Pad”. This results in the advantage that on the user side, the compromised device (PC, smartphone, etc.) only sees the encrypted information itself. At this time the decryption takes place at a sec-ondary LCD display, which is separated with the decoding key from the actual device. Thus, none of the decoded mes-sage transmission takes place on an in-fected device (by spyware or malware), enabling secure transfer of information in spite of monitored devices and commu-nication channels.
Condensed matter physics remains a field of study with many puzzles to solve. New studies have become possible due to advances in experimental quantum physics.
Based on this data, large hospitals, hospital networks, and diagnostic centers can get an overview of how many devices are being used. They can then deploy…
The biological effects of radiation consist in the damage caused to genetic information (DNA) contained in every cell nucleus. However, cells feature powerful…
A team from the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Kiel University, headed by Professor Michael Bonitz, has now been able to discover new…
Observations using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed that the unusually large magnetosphere around an O-type star called NGC 1624-2 contains a raging…
The present invention relates to an antibody that exhibit a high affinity and mono-specificity for the A1/B-domains of human CEACAM1. Thus, it is suitable to detect the membrane anchored, the cleaved soluble CEACAM1 and most of its derivatives. It is of use in several research applications, including ELISA, WB, IP, IHC, fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry. In addition, the monoclonal antibody (mAB) is suitable for use as a diagnostic tool for the detection of inflammatory disorders (e.g. sepsis, multiple sclerosis) as well as for solid tumors, and applies for therapy monitoring of the latter.
Cancer patient data have been generated that support the diagnostic potential. A German patent application has been filed. On behalf of the University of Duisburg-Essen, PROvendis offers access to the antibody for commercial use.
The new technology provides a method for production of a standardized ?off-the-shelf? composition comprising human MSC with reliable efficacy, built on a precisely controlled GMP compliant ex vivo expansion manufacturing process.
Today, it is becoming more and more attractive and affordable for everyone to enhance the home environment with software to remotely control heating or…