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Project funded by the BMBF promotes long-term collaboration / Contacts with Asia to be extended The University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Nagasaki University in Japan plan to cooperate more closely in the future. At the focus of the partnership funded by the German ...
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In a study conducted within the context of the German national genomics network (NGFN), researchers from the Hertie-Institute for clinical neuroscience have been the first to demonstrate that the two proteins associated with Parkinson’s Disease, PINK1 and Parkin, regulate the disposal of damaged ...
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METAV 2010 will be a yardstick for the industry’s eco-nomic recovery - number of exhibitors rises again 28.01.2010 - The machine tool industry has seen the slump in its order bookings bottom out. This is particularly true for the large vendor nations who will be meeting at the METAV in ...
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Marine scientists investigate the distribution of important micro-nutrients in the Atlantic They are invisible and very difficult to measure but no life in the oceans would be possible without them. We are talking about trace metals such as cadmium, copper or iron, dissolved in seawater. Their ...
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Bayer CropScience is adding the biofungicide Shemer to its portfolio of classic crop protection products. The company has now completed the acquisition of certain assets and technologies relating to biological development products of AgroGreen in Ashdod, Israel. This move follows the acquisition ...
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Tübingen Neuroscientists’ findings shed a new light on information processing in the brain. I hear tires squealing, see a car coming closer from the corner of my eye – and quickly jump back onto the sidewalk. I owe the fact that I escaped unscathed to the millions of neurons processing different ...
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Dr. Brigitte Angres and Dr. Helmut Wurst, founders and managing directors of Cellendes GmbH in Reutlingen, have developed an innovative synthetic hydrogel for cultivating cells. This enables better testing of new active substances, for example in the pharmaceutical industry, because it ...
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On 26 January 2010 the research vessel Polarstern docked in Wellington, New Zealand for the first time. This marked the end of the two-month leg of an expedition with a marine geological focus that started in Punta Arenas, Chile. Representatives of the research community and the political sphere ...
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Germany’s third economic stimulus package provides targeted tax relief for both companies and employees. Effective since January 1, 2010, the Economic Growth Acceleration Act seeks to quickly and effectively achieve growth and stimulate employment by means of a targeted tax policy. To achieve ...
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Idiotype vaccination in the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - The transfer into clinical development of a patient-specific vaccine represents a milestone for Bayer Innovation GmbH. Following approval of the Phase I study by the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) in the United States, the ...
