Research in Germany: News Archive: May 2010

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News Archive: May 2010

5/31/10

The Brazilian biotechnology segment with its almost 300 companies reached a significant level of diversity in terms of products and technologies. But the industry has not achieved a consistent participation in the international market and is little known in his home country. A situation that ...

5/31/10

First species of horned dinosaur from Europe A new species of horned dinosaur has been discovered in Hungary by a team of scientists including Dr Richard Butler of the Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie as well as the LMU Munich. The pig-like Ajkaceratops kozmai was a small ...

5/31/10

Réunion is to Ralf Sommer and Matthias Herrmann from the Max Plank Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen what the Galápagos Islands were to Charles Darwin. The island in the Indian Ocean is where the biologists are studying biological diversity with the help of a very unremarkable ...

5/28/10

On 24 June 2010, the Research Institute for Operations Management at RWTH Aachen University (FIR) will open its so-called "Service Science Innovation Lab" (SSIL). Before moving to the University's new research campus as part of the Logistics research cluster, the new R&D lab will open its doors ...

5/28/10

In a university rankings list published last week by the German business journal Wirtschaftswoche, human resources managers ranked RWTH Aachen University as a top-class educational and research institution. The managers ranked the University first among German institutions of higher education in ...

5/28/10

Orders received by the German machine tool industry rose sharply in the first quarter of 2010. Overall, orders were up 43 percent year-on-year for the period January to March. Domestic demand rose by 25 percent, whereas foreign orders increased by 54 percent.  "Following this strong performance ...

5/28/10

The BMBF and the DAAD have agreed to step up their efforts to develop doctoral programmes with international orientation. Universities throughout the world are competing for outstanding doctoral candidates in order to strengthen research and innovation for years to come. Establishing ...

5/28/10

Science Dinner and Discussion with Professors Michael Ullman and Jürgen M. Meisel At the GCRI Science Dinner and discussion on June 3, 2010, Professors Michael Ullman and Jürgen M. Meisel will share their insights on the physiological differences between learning a second language in youth and ...

5/27/10

Grants from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation are currently allowing four guests from three continents to conduct research at Göttingen University's Department of Chemistry. They are members of Prof. Hartmut Laatsch's research group at the Institute for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. ...

5/27/10

Gene expression is a fundamental biological process by which the genetic information is converted into proteins – a complicated process consisting of many different steps. It begins with the transcription (copying) of defined sections of the DNA (genes) into a related molecule called messenger ...


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