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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Protea Biosciences Concludes New Technology License Agreement

LAESI technology identifies viral-infected cells in minutes

10-Sep-2010 - ProteaBio Europe SAS announced that the company has concluded an exclusive, worldwide license agreement with George Washington University for commercial rights to a new technology that provides rapid identification of a broad range of chemicals and biomolecules. Known as Laser Ablation ...

Paving slabs that clean the air

05-Aug-2010 - The concentrations of toxic nitrogen oxide that are present in German cities regularly exceed the maximum permitted levels. That’s now about to change, as innovative paving slabs that will help protect the environment are being introduced. Coated in titanium dioxide nanoparticles, they reduce the ...

ISU researcher develops green, bio-based process for producing fuel additive

28-Jun-2010 - A new green, bio-based method for producing a much-used fuel additive and industrial chemical that is currently made from petroleum products has been developed by an Iowa State University researcher. Thomas Bobik, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, invented a process ...

UT Knoxville and ORNL researchers turn algae into high-temperature hydrogen source

Platinum-catalyzed photosynthetic process creates high-yield sustainable source of hydrogen

16-Nov-2009 - In the quest to make hydrogen as a clean alternative fuel source, researchers have been stymied about how to create usable hydrogen that is clean and sustainable without relying on an intensive, high-energy process that outweighs the benefits of not using petroleum to power vehicles. New ...