The work seeks to clarify what Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers witnessed when in 2013 they named a mysterious phenomenon — an unusual…

The planet, designated Kepler-413b, is located 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It circles a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars every…

By making exquisitely precise measurements astronomers have found that different parts of the asteroid Itokawa have different densities. As well as revealing…

The Heidelberg-based IT enterprise EML European Media Laboratory GmbH will be represented at this year’s CCW trade fair (former CallCenterWorld) in Berlin from…

esearchers have analyzed carbon-rich meteorites (carbonaceous chondrites) and found amino acids, which are used to make proteins. Proteins are among the most…

The invention comprise a method to synergistically integrate bottom-up nano-technology with single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy to create a platform for a single-molecule lab-on-a-chip that enables paralleled investigation of enzyme reactions, binding- and drug-screening assays in confined volumes at biologically relevant concentrations. The method allows the paralleld placement of different molecules at precisley defined positions next to the optical antennas.

Autonomous robots that find their way through unfamiliar terrain? Not so distant future.Researchers at the Bernstein Fokus Neuronal Basis of Learning, the…

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg are working on a heat engine that consists of just a single…

Published in the journal Optics Letters, the researchers from the University’s Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing and the School of Chemistry and…

Scientists and engineers from an international collaboration led by Dr Mark Thompson from the University of Bristol have, for the first time, generated and…

As computers enter ever more areas of our daily lives, the amount of data they produce has grown enormously. But for this “big data” to be useful it must first…

However, the true history of the solar system is more riotous. Giant planets migrated in and out, tossing interplanetary flotsam and jetsam far and wide. New…

In the 1980s, scientists' view of the solar system's asteroids was essentially static: Asteroids that formed near the sun remained near the sun; those that…

The constantly growing global population and the resulting increase in energy consumption, the foreseeable end of the global petroleum reserves and a need for stagnation or rather a decline of the emissions of greenhouse gas led to a closer focus on alternative energy sources. Especially the production of biofuel out of renewable, cellulosic raw material is constantly being optimized at the moment. One major challenge in this context is the generation of new, highly effective cellulolytic enzymes. Our novel assay, called hydrogel reagent signaling system (HyReS), offers significant advantages, as it enables a straightforward method for analyzing cellulolytic enzymes with a spatially-resolved imaging of cellulose hydrolysis in real-time using a simple fluorescent readout.

The present invention provides a novel method for the production of exopolysaccharides, in particular glucans and fructans. The special feature of method according to the invention is that the production of EPS is a non-recombinant technology, and that the purification of the produced EPS is furthermore possible simply by filtration, centrifugation, ion exchange or dialysis. The result is an enormous yield of high quality EPS in a highly purified form with uniform particle size, which can be used in several areas such as food industry, pharmaceutics, cosmetic industry, paper industry, polymer industry and chemical industry.

“We knew that the fuel for star formation had to come from somewhere. So far, however, we’ve detected only about 10 percent of what would be necessary to…