Tobias Erb receives the Leibniz Award 2024

Innovative, interdisciplinary research approach opens up new possibilities for developing technologies to address the global climate crisis

11-Dec-2023 - Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Professor at the University of Marburg, has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Leibniz Prize is the most important research award in Germany and ...

Key enzyme for production of second-generation ethanol discovered in Brazilian Amazon

17-May-2018 - Second-generation ethanol (also called cellulosic ethanol) open perspectives for optimizing alcohol production. Since 2G ethanol is obtained from from sugarcane straw and bagasse, it basically makes it possible converting waste into energy. Holder of the world's best biomass and boasting the ...

Unique bacterial chemist in the war on potatoes

04-Oct-2016 - In fertile farm soils where potatoes grow, Streptomyces scabies bacteria wage war using chemicals related to explosives and pesticides. But a microbial spoiler defuses one of S. scabies' poisons. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have gained new insights into a one-of-a-kind ...

Chemists use DNA to build the world's tiniest thermometer

28-Apr-2016 - Researchers at University of Montreal have created a programmable DNA thermometer that is 20,000x smaller than a human hair. This scientific advance reported this week in the journal Nano Letters may significantly aid our understanding of natural and human designed nanotechnologies by enabling to ...

Food safety at analytica 2014: Trace analysis for our health

04-Mar-2014 - How safe is our food? This is a volatile issue for many consumers and a major challenge for the food-analysis sector. The only way to perform quality and origin analyses is with state-of-the-art equipment and techniques. That is why the topic of food analysis is an interdisciplinary focal point ...

Science Prize Worth Millions Awarded

Balzan Prizes 2013 awarded in Berne

19-Nov-2013 - The Balzan Prizes 2013 were presented by the Federal Councillor Alain Berset, during the Award Ceremony at the Federal Palace in Berne, to Alain Aspect (France), École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, for Quantum Information Processing and Communication Manuel Castells (USA/Catalonia), University of ...

Dunn Labortechnik celebrates its 30th anniversary

01-Feb-2012 - In 1982 the company Dunn Labortechnik was founded in Asbach (Germany) by Hannelore and Peter Dunn. Since then, the company has supplied research and routine laboratories with equipment, disposables as well as immunoreagents, plasma and sera and has evolved from a nationally to an internationally ...

Eurofins announces the inauguration of its Nantes laboratory extension turning it into the largest single-site independent food testing laboratory in the world

26-Sep-2011 - Eurofins Scientific inaugurated a 3,000 m2 extension to its laboratory in Nantes, France. The extension was completed in early summer and turns Eurofins Nantes into the largest single-site independent food testing laboratory in the world, with 11,500 m2 total laboratory surface and capacity to ...

BIOTECHNICA highlights the role of biotechnological processes in industrial manufacturing

Focus on the development of biocatalysts, process optimization and the exploration of marine resources

19-Aug-2011 - Biotechnology is playing an increasingly important role in the development of sustainable, environmentally friendly processes and new industrial products. While the impact of biotechnology is particularly evident in the chemicals sector, it also plays a major role in production processes in the ...

Water is an active element in proteins

Bochum’s researchers discover proton diode

30-Sep-2010 - Biophysicists in Bochum have discovered a diode for protons: just like the electronic component determines the direction of flow of electric current, the “proton diode” ensures that protons can only pass through a cell membrane in one direction. Water molecules play an important role here as ...