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11 March 2010: A new dawn for transgenic crops in Europe? Approval of the Amflora potato could signal a fresh approach to genetically modified organisms. Read more

11 March 2010: Spider and snake enzymes could deliver healthy food - Danisco (Australia) is starting a new four-year research project to investigate potential uses of enzymes produced by spiders, snakes and carnivorous plants as processing aids for food and other industrial uses. Read more

9 March 2010: Deceptive Model: Stem Cells of Humans and Mice Differ More Strongly Than Suspected - They are considered to be the most important model organism for research into human biology: mice may look totally different, but they are in many ways similar to Homo sapiens on a fundamental level. Read more

18 February 2010: A German team of scientists has developed a technique to treat nanoparticle surfaces to boost solar cell efficiency. Read more

21 January 2010: Researchers at Bonn University have discovered an elementary mechanism which regulates vital immune functions in healthy people. Read more

5 January 2010: Bug hits German credit cards relating to 2010 change. Read more

25 November 2009: German researchers show why the latest touch-screen devices often larger than the push-button gadgets they replace? Read more

12 November 2009: Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have developed a catalyst to converting methane to methanol. Read more

11 November 2009: New findings by British and German scientists challenge traditional memory theory. Read more

4 November 2009: Scientists at the Max Planck Institute, Germany, have built a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats' head to study brain activity while animals are free to move around. Read more

3 November 2009: Research by scientists from Germany and New Zealand has shown that European robins use part of their visual centre for magnetic compass orientation during their migration. Read more

29 October 2009: 'Feel-good' hormone serotonin regulates blood sugar concentration, report from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin. Read more

22 October 2009: A team of researchers from Germany and France crack sperm DNA code. Read more

19 October 2009: A team of Belgian and German scientists has for the first time successfully mapped the full inventory of proteins in yeast mitochondria. Read more

12 October 2009: Swedish and German researchers have demonstrated a more robust broadband for wireless internet transmission. Read more

6 October 2009: A team at the University of Münster are using nanoparticles as agents for the photodynamic killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Read more

5 October 2009: German researchers found that heat treatment more than doubled the proportion of patients whose tumours responded to chemotherapy. Read more

2 October 2009: Scientists at the University of Lubeck, Germany develop a nasal spray that improves memory. Read more

1 October 2009: Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and Grenoble have been studying the secrets of speedy sperm. Read more

29 September 2009: A team of physicists at the Max-Planck-Institute has built a small, powerful X-ray source. Read more

24 September 2009: A trial in Germany of new treatment for advanced melanoma shows rapid shrinking of tumors. Read more

24 September 2009: Researchers the University of Stuttgart in Germany are developing a mobile navigation device that will help visually impaired students to navigate. Read more

18 September 2009: German and British scientists shed light on how the genetic change helped early Europeans drink milk without becoming ill. Read more

15 September 2009: A scientist at the Jena International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) has studied the whereabouts of plant hormones, which influence development and metabolism of organisms, after they had been consumed by the caterpillars. Read more

11 September 2009: Physicists from Germany and Spain propose 'Schrödinger's virus' experiment. Read more

10 September 2009: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Ruhr-Universitat Bochum built completely flat, two-layer ice vital to understanding protein folding. Read more

9 September 2009: Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany can now show how the bacteria migrate into tumors. A messenger substance from the immune system is the door opener. Read more

9 September 2009: Researchers from Technische Universität (TU) Dortmund in Germany suggests that urbanites have less severe traffic accidents than rural inhabitants. Read more

8 September 2009: Hook and loop fasteners made of spring steel have now been developed at the Institute of Metal Forming and Casting of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen. Read more

8 September 2009: Researchers in Germany have shown Fractals could explain how the cell's nucleus holds molecules that manage our DNA in the right location. Read more

31 August 2009: A team at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen are assessing the potential to translate into technology the unique sensory capability some fish and amphibians possess that allows them sense objects and "see" in the dark. Read more

28 August 2009: Molecular biologists can now gain new insights by the virtual simulations generated with a new type of software. “BioBrowser,” developed as part of a German Research Foundation project, automatically calculates and displays 3D models of complex proteins. Read more

28 August 2009: A German research team has shown that ancient neural pathways in the human brainstem are involved in the 'placebo effect'. Read more

27 August 2009: A team of EU-funded researchers in Germany has discovered the signalling pathway that is responsible for telling plants when to flower, even when there is no external stimulus such as the beginning of spring. Read more

17 August 2009: We see, hear and feel, and make sense of countless diverse, quickly changing stimuli in our environment seemingly without effort. However, doing what our brains do with ease is often an impossible task for computers. Read more

29 June 2009: German scientists have tailor-made nanoparticles that can be used as position lights on cell proteins and in optical information technology. Read more

26 June 2009: An external suction technique, called cupping, is effective for providing temporary relief of pain from carpal tunnel syndrome (CPS). Read more

26 June 2009: A new material and design for highly efficient ceramic diesel particle filters. From 2011, new EU guidelines for emission values will apply. Read more

26 June 2009: Scientists create smallest ever droplet of acid and solve ozone puzzle. In its atomic form, chlorine can destroy vast quantities of ozone. Read more

25 June 2009: A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered. Read more

24 June 2009: New mechanisms of action found for drugs used to treat anxiety disorders. In the course of his or her life, every seventh German will develop an anxiety disorder that will require treatment. Read more

24 June 2009: New 3D electron microscopy images reveal the reconstruction of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), which shows the structure of the immature form of the virus at unprecedented detail. Read more

22 June 2009: German children are taller than 30 years ago, but the increase in height observed during the last century has become slower. Read more

19 June 2009: Scientists in Germany have succeeded in treating immune cells in a way that enables them to inhibit unwanted immune reactions such as organ rejection. Read more

17 June 2009: New piece is found in the puzzle of epigenetics -- the enzyme TFIIH kinase is involved in epigenetic regulation. Read more

16 June 2009: GARP – a protein to tackle the regulatory T cells -- makes the difference. Scientists in Germany have succeeded in treating immune cells in a way that enables them to inhibit unwanted immune reactions such as organ rejection. Read more

15 June 2009: Using nanoparticles to increase the effiiciency of thin film solar cells. Read more

11 June 2009: Scientists in Germany have devised the quantum-mechanical equivalent of a motor. Read more

9 June 2009: In what could be a breakthrough in animal breeding, a team of scientists from Germany, Russia and Sweden has discovered a set of genetic regions responsible for animal tameness. Read more

8 June 2009: Bats can use the characteristics of other bats' voices to recognize each other. A study explains how bats use echolocation for more than just spatial knowledge. Read more

8 June 2009: Drinking water from air humidity. In the Negev desert in Israel, annual average relative air humidity is 64% - in every cubic meter of air there are 11.5 milliliters of water. The source of power is based exclusively on renewable energy sources. Read more

27 May 2009: A new supercomputer with the power of 50,000 home PCs -- the fastest in Europe and the third worldwide -- was unveiled in Germany. Read more

27 May 2009: The evolution of gene regulation: How microbial neighbors settle differences. Most genes are only expressed when needed. Read more

26 May 2009: Too much entanglement can render quantum computers useless. In Quantum computing, the way systems are entangled - correlated - can help scientists perform powerful computational tasks. Read more

26 May 2009: For the first time, scientists have discovered a genetic relationship between the dental disease periodontitis and coronary heart disease (CHD). Read more

25 May 2009: Researchers in Germany have gained crucial insight into how mechanosensitivity arises. By measuring electrical impulses in the sensory neurons of mice, neurobiologists were able to directly elucidate, for the first time, the emergence of mechanosensitivity. Read more

20 May 2009: New research centre in Tauranga to receive millions in German funding. Read more

20 May 2009: Scientists have found a 47-million-year-old human ancestor. Read more

20 May 2009: An international team has identified specific molecules that could block the means by which the deadly HIV virus spreads by taking away its ability to bind with other proteins. Read more

19 May 2009: As a fast and efficient means of transport, jellyfish-like organisms known as Pyrosoma atlanticum could play a major role in the marine carbon cycle. Read more

15 May 2009: ACE (Autonomous City Explorer) the robot was sent on a mission by its German inventors: to find its way to the Marienplatz in the center of Munich, about 1.5 km away from its starting poin. Since ACE doesn't have a map or GPS system, it could only ask for directions from people passing by. Read more

14 May 2009: Ivory sculpture in Germany could be world's oldest, at least 35,000 years ago. This discovery radically changes our views of the context and meaning of the earliest Paleolithic art. Read more

13 May 2009: Biomass as a source of raw materials. A new catalytic process is developed to convert components of bio-oil directly into alkanes and methanol. Read more

12 May 2009: Thermal conductivity of seafloor. The first German offshore wind facility is expected be put into operation sometime in 2009. Read more

6 May 2009: A 25-year old astronomical mystery has been solved: Most of the diffuse X-ray emissions in the Milky Way do not originate from one single source but from so-called white dwarfs and from stars with active outer gas layers. Read more

1 May 2009: Bionic penguins learn how to swim backwards and take flight. Read more

1 May 2009: A genetic test on patients before they have surgery can help guide post-surgery treatment. Genetic differences can explain why some patients undergoing heart surgery later experience shock and kidney complications. Read more

1 May 2009: Recycling is important also at the cellular level, since key molecules tend to be available in limited numbers. Researchers in Germany have uncovered the first step in the recycling of a crucial molecular tag which ensures the instructions encoded in our genes are correctly carried out. Read more

30 April 2009: Polyphosphate is the molecular jack-of-all trade. Researchers in Germany are now the first to uncover how this chain of phosphate molecules is assembled in eukaryotes (organisms whose cells have a nucleus). Read more

24 April 2009: The high speed of stars and apparent presence of ‘dark matter’ in the satellite galaxies that orbit our Milky Way Galaxy presents a direct challenge to Newton’s theory of gravitation. Read more

23 April 2009: Several bacterial pathogens use toxins to manipulate human host cells, ultimately disturbing cellular signal transduction. Germany researchers have identified 39 interaction partners of these toxins. Read more

21 April 2009: Bridging the gap in nanoantennas -- an innovative method for controlling light on the nanoscale by adopting tuning concepts from radio-frequency technology. Read more

16 April 2009: Germany bans GM maize. It joins 5 other countries — France, Austria, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg — that have banned the pest-resistant maize despite its approval under a legally-binding EU directive. Read more

2 April 2009: A team of scientists has proved the existence of hemogenic endothelial cells. The findings answer the question -- unsolved until now -- of how blood cells are generated during embryonic development. Read more

31 March 2009: Plastic mineral water bottles contaminate drinking water with estrogenic chemicals. Read more

25 March 2009: Einstein@Home, based at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world's largest public volunteer distributed computing projects. More than 200,000 people have signed up to search gravitational wave data for signals from unknown pulsars. Read more

23 March 2009: 1 in 5 children are now affected by eczem, which is often associated with an allergy. Many people believe that certain foods are responsible. Parents should be cautious about eliminating important foods from their baby's or child's diet. Read more

19 March 2009: Dendritic cells are essential to the body's immune defenses. Now, German researchers show that the cell also have to protect the body from itself -- to identify any immune cells that attack the body's own tissue. Read more

18 March 2009: New tumor markers in the DNA of medulloblastoma, the most frequent malignant brain tumor in childhood, determine therapy intensity. Read more

13 March 2009: Magnetic nanoparticles navigate therapeutic genes through the body. Read more

11 March 2009: German authorities have discovered the first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus this year. Read more

10 March 2009: Regions of the brain can rewire themselves. Scientists have succeeded in demonstrating for the first time that the activities of large parts of the brain can be altered in the long term. Read more

10 March 2009: A water splitter with a double role. Scientists have now found a simple, low-cost way to produce hydrogen. Read more

9 March 2009: Comparing 500,000 snippets of human DNA put scientists from the University of Bonn on the right track. A genetic variant on chromosome 8 occurs with significantly higher frequency in people with cleft lip and palate than in the control group. Read more

6 March 2009: When young healthy athletes suddenly collapse, it can be due to hereditary cardiac disease. Researchers have now discovered a genetic modification that leads to cardiac weakness in an animal model. Read more

5 March 2009: Scientists in Germany have cracked the secret of the good taste of cheese in Gouda, Holland. They have identified the key protein subunits, or peptides, responsible. Read more

3 March 2009: Development of a new, more effective method to determine whether milk marketed as "organic" is genuine or just ordinary milk mislabeled to hoodwink consumers. Read more

2 March 2009: With a new 3D-model for energy simulation, scientists are studying the 'physical mystery' of the Voyager. Over 30 years ago the spacecraft detected particles in solar wind which were 'hotter' than they should have been. Read more

24 February 2009: Turning corn stalks into electricity. Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) in Germany have succeeded in developing the first-ever pilot biogas plant which strictly uses organic waste instead of edible raw materials. Read more

24 February 2009: About 150 million years ago, an evolutionarily hybrid creature, a dinosaur on its way to becoming a bird, died in what is now Germany, and become fossilized in limestone. Read more

19 February 2009: Pathologically elevated blood fat levels in obesity: molecular causes discovered. Read more

18 February 2009: Research scientists have succeeded in deriving so-called brain stem cells from human embryonic stem cells. These can be conserved almost indefinitely and also serve as an inexhaustible source of diverse types of neural cell. These neural cells are capable of synaptic integration in the brain. Read more

18 February 2009: Forgotten and lost - when proteins 'shut down' our brain. With the help of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, researchers investigated which modules of the tau protein, in neurons of Alzheimer disease patients, may act in a destructive manner. Read more

2 February 2009: North American and German researchers announced a breakthrough on Friday toward a cheap, fast blood test for BSE, or so-called "mad cow disease" in livestock. Read more

2 February 2009: New, Unusual Semiconductor is a Switch-Hitter. Read More

30 January 2009: A novel technology for synthesising chemicals from plant material could produce liquid fuel for just over €0.50 ($0.65) a liter, say German scientists. But only if the infrastructure is set up in the right way. Read more

27 January 2009: Germany OKs Atlantic global warming experiment of dumping iron sulphate in the South Atlantic to see if it can absorb greenhouse gases. Read more

22 January 2009: Liquid wood to replace plastic. Arboform, the new material, is made of lignin, which can be derived from soft tissues of wood. Read more

21 January 2009: Scientists have put forth a novel explanation of the evolutionary driving force behind a genetic switching circuit that regulates flower development and survival. The hypothesis is based around the obligatory pairing of certain molecules. Read more

13 January 2009: Radiation from mobile phones has no short-term health impact on children and teenagers, a new German government study. Read more

12 January 2009: Scientists have investigated the frequency of warmer than average years between 1880 and 2006 for the first time. The result: the observed increase of warm years after 1990 is not a statistical accident. Read more

9 January 2009: German scientists have developed a theory that can predict the magnetic field of planets and stars alike. Their computer simulations reveal that the strength of a heavenly body's magnetic field is determined by the amount of energy (in the form of heat or light, for example) that it emits. Read more

7 January 2009: Cancer Researchers (Germany) have identified a gene which can predict for the first time with high probability if colon cancer is going to metastasize. Read more

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