Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have developed a tool that can estimate the harmful effect of pesticides, such as those flushed into rivers and streams from agricultural land, within minutes. “It used to be very difficult to detect which chronic effects occur,” explains Dr Matthias Liess, head of the UFZ’s System Ecotoxicology Department.In their new approach, the Helmholtz researchers exploit the fact that pesticides cause characteristic changes to the composition of the life community that is…

An old friend of mine, who has visited Japan often over many years, says attitudes of Japanese people towards clothing have changed significantly, as many…

An international team of scientists, led by Darrell Kaufman, a Northern Arizona University professor of geology and environmental science, recently completed a…

“It used to be very difficult to detect which chronic effects occur,” explains Dr Matthias Liess, head of the UFZ’s System Ecotoxicology Department. In their…

Thanks to the federal program, the average fuel economy of all new vehicles purchased in the United States in July and August improved about 3 percent,…

Up to now, explosives based on nitroaromatic compounds have been detected as anions by means of ion-mobility spectroscopy (IMS). The present invention not only…

In a 24-hour period, each participating group connected over the Internet and controlled robots at different locations. The tests demonstrated how a wide…

We offer a new type of semiconductor quantum-well inter-subband devices, which can be manufactured with standard GaAs deposition technology. The technology…

Our new technology makes it possible to apply a fractional slot winding for small electrical machines, without the need to use a two-layer winding. Further…

Inventors could demonstrate the potential effect of a new plant extracts in prophylaxis and treatment of inflammatory and/or neurological diseases, like…

We introduce a simple and conceptually versatile method for the construction of fluorescence-based enzymatic assays, which do not require a labelling of a bio…

We offer a novel MALDI-MS sample support plate based on mesoporous metal oxides membranes, its fabrication process and its utilisation for the enrichment and…

Nucleoside analogues are a class of compounds that trigger programmed cell death (apoptosis). This happens as they incorporate into cellular DNA where they…

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We offer a new high surface area aluminium trifluoride-CATALYST: With the innovative and easy-to-handle process the high surface area AlF3 (HS-AlF3) is…

Enclosed are new, functionally relevant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in regulatory sequences of the human checkpoint-kinase-1 & 2 (CHK1 & CHK2)…

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Enclosed is a new functionally relevant SNP in the promoter region of the human AQP5 gene, which encodes a water channel protein and plays a fundamental role…

Chitosan is a linear co-polymer of glucosamine (D) and N-acetyl-glucosamine (A) units. Enzymatic degradation of this co-polymer by chitinases or chitosanases…

The taste of a pharmaceutical product is a very important aspect in drug development as it possesses a major influence on the patient compliance, especially in…