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Life & Chemistry

Oysters and Taxes: Insights from USC Marine Biologists

In physical, as in financial growth, it’s not what you make but what you keep that counts, USC marine biologists believe.Their study of genes associated with…

Environmental Conservation

The Institute for Ocean Conservation Science applauds IUCN's reclassifcation of beluga sturgeon

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) today formally announced the reclassification of beluga sturgeon in the Caspian Sea as…

Life & Chemistry

Spying on a Cellular Director in the Cutting Room

But more than box office revenues are at stake: if the spliceosome makes a careless cut, disease likely results. Using a new approach to studying the…

Life & Chemistry

How does a heart know when it's big enough?

The protein, named Kibra, is linked to a relay of chemical signals responsible for shaping and sizing tissue growth by coordinating control of cell…

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Innovative Process for Synthesizing Large Cyclodextrins

The invention describes a process for the synthesis of cyclodextrins in gram quantities composed of 9 and more glucose units while previously the preparation…

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New Chimeric Peptides Enhance Antimicrobial Properties of HBDs

This invention exploits the remarkable differences in the antimicrobial properties shown by human beta-defensins 2 and 3 (HBD2 and HBD3) against Gram-positive…

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Ifapsoriasin Fragments: New Antimicrobial Peptide Insights

The presence of ifapsoriasin (IFPS, fillagrin-2), a novel skin- and mucosaspecific S100 fusion type protein, at the surface of skin and mucosa, particularly…

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Novel Antitumoral Cyclodepsipeptides from Marine Fungus

This invention concerns two novel cyclodepsipeptides, scopularides A and B, from the fungus Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, which was isolated from the marine…

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Scaffold-Stabilized L2 Peptides: A New Approach to HPV Vaccines

The thioredoxin-L2 vaccines consist of thioredoxin as a “scaffold” protein and one of several L2 peptide concatemers. The most effective peptides have been…

Life & Chemistry

How Does a Heart Know When It’s Big Enough?

The protein, named Kibra, is linked to a relay of chemical signals responsible for shaping and sizing tissue growth by coordinating control of cell…

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Molecular rectifiers containing diamondoids

A molecular rectifier comprised of a diamondoid molecule and an electron acceptor attached to the diamondoid molecule is now available. The electron acceptor…

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New Chimeric Peptides Enhance Antimicrobial Properties of HBDs

This invention exploits the remarkable differences in the antimicrobial properties shown by human beta-defensins 2 and 3 (HBD2 and HBD3) against Gram-positive…

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New Actuator Design Using Electroactive Polymer Technology

The present invention is a novel principle for the use of electroactive polymers (EAPs). It is realised by a tubular device that contains the polymer. An…

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Enhancing Mobile Data: Inter-Domain Handover Mechanisms

The invention relates to the field of mobile data connections, in which a mobile node, e.g. a notebook is connected to a fixed node like a wireless router.Further Information: …

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Innovative CpPN Complexes: New Insights on Metal Interactions

The invention at hand provides cyclopentadienylphosphazene complexes (CpPN complexes) of the metals of the third and the fourth group and of the lanthanoids…

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NEUREM – NEUroplastic Recruitment of outer Ear Muscles

With our invention, physically handicapped people are able to control different equipment without using extremities, voice or eye-moving. Just by using…

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New Ear Muscle Controller Transforms Gaming Experience

With the signal of ear muscles its possible to control a game console. All our test persons were able to learn to use this kind of controller in short time.

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Nanoparticle Manufacturing Technique Reduces Platinum Usage

At a German University a manufacturing technique suitably for membrane electrodes was developed. The main advantage is the usage of less platinum (up to 30%),…

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Ortho-metalated, chelate-stabilized benzylamines of the rare earth metals (SE)

The invention at hand provides, for the first time, thermally stable trisaryl compounds of the rare earth metals which are storable for a long time. These…

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New Prodrug Innovations for Targeted Tumor Therapy

Scientists of the University of Göttingen developed new highly potent drugs (with an IC50 in the pico-Molar range) as well as a selective tumor therapy through…

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