Roche and IBM Collaborate to Develop Nanopore-Based DNA Sequencing Technology

02-Jul-2010 - Roche and IBM announced an agreement to develop a nanopore-based sequencer that will directly read and decode human DNA quickly and efficiently. Focused on advancing IBM’s recently published “DNA Transistor” technology, the collaboration will take advantage of IBM’s leadership in ...

Analytik Jena Delivers Instruments for Environmental Analysis to Poland

02-Jul-2010 - Analytik Jena AG has received an extensive new order from Poland. The company is delivering a total of 20 TOC analyzers to the Polish Inspectorate of Environmental Protection (GIOS) as well as their regional investigations offices. The company was therefore able to further strengthen its market ...

CSEM SA leads a European consortium in revolutionizing infrared chemical sensing

01-Jul-2010 - The European Union has awarded a grant of 2.8 million Euro to the project PLAISIR (Plasmonic Innovative Sensing in the Infrared) which started 1st January 2010 and will run for three years. The goals of the project are to create ultra-sensitive chemical sensors and smarter, cheaper infrared (IR) ...

caprotec bioanalytics Announces the Successful Completion of a Collaborative Research Project With Roche

30-Jun-2010 - caprotec bioanalytics GmbH announced that it has successfully completed a research collaboration with F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland. Under the collaboration research agreement, caprotec used its proprietary CCMS (Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry) technology to analyze the binding ...

Milestone on a nanometre level

30-Jun-2010 - Physicists succeed in characterizing the quantum state of a complex system Physicists from Marburg and the US have succeeded in characterizing the quantum state of a system consisting of millions of particles by bringing experimental data and theoretical predictions into agreement. The team of ...

Carbon nanotubes form ultrasensitive biosensor to detect proteins

30-Jun-2010 - A cluster of carbon nanotubes coated with a thin layer of protein-recognizing polymer form a biosensor capable of using electrochemical signals to detect minute amounts of proteins, which could provide a crucial new diagnostic tool for the detection of a range of illnesses, a team of Boston ...

2011: Changes in the Carl Zeiss Executive Board

Dr. Dieter Kurz hands over his office as CEO to Dr. Michael Kaschke on 1 January 2011

29-Jun-2010 - At its meeting of 24 June 2010 the Supervisory Board of Carl Zeiss AG passed a unanimous resolution concerning personnel changes in the Executive Board. As planned, President and CEO of Carl Zeiss AG, Dr. Dieter Kurz, will not renew his contract that is due to expire at the end of 2010. Dr. ...

Technique enables precise control of protein activity in living cells

28-Jun-2010 - Cancer occurs when human cells move and multiply inappropriately. Within cells, a process called phosphorylation serves as an on/off switch for a number of cellular processes that can be involved in cancer, including metabolism, transcription, configuration, movement, cell death and ...

How the first step affects the (watery) result

German Scientists from Jena and Erlangen-Nürnberg show the way to a more effective creation of hydrogen

28-Jun-2010 - Energy from hydrogen - scientists from all over the world work on this solution to overcome the energy crisis. Amongst other things they try to use the sunlight as driving force for the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen. In trying to copy the photosynthesis in the laboratory a team of ...

Phosphoproteins no longer foil mass spectrometry

25-Jun-2010 - Commercial aluminium foil could be used to help scientists understand more about important biological pathways. Hubert Girault, at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland, and colleagues used the foil to extract multi-phosphorylated peptides from digested protein ...