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As a matter of necessity, the production of stem cell medicines takes place in clean rooms. 12.12.2011

Living medicines from the pharmaceutical forge

Die Münchener Apceth GmbH hat sich auf die Entwicklung von stammzellbasierten Therapien spezialisiert, die bei der Behandlung der arteriellen Verschlusskrankheit zum Einsatz kommen.

With a total of 500 fermenters and a pilot plant, the University of Hohenheim is one of the leading research locations for biogas production. 11.11.2011

Pure biogas from deepwater conditions

Biogas of natural gas quality: At the University of Hohenheim, researchers are simulating the conditions of the deep sea to produce pure and inexpensive biogas.

A three-dimensional partial reconstruction of an adult heart muscle cell that has been dyed with an optical sensor. Visible here are the complex, network-like structures of cell membrane indentations. The optical signals created in these indentations are measured at CordiLux. 11.10.2011

Testing drugs with light

Some drugs work effectively, but can damage the heart. At the University of Saarland, a group of molecular cell biologists headed by Peter Lipp has developed an optical approach to drug testing. Another original aspect to their work is that instead of using animal experiments, the scientists at CordiLux work with adult myocardial cell cultures.

Expectant mothers must take care to avoid real or perceived harm; serious stress can lead to changes in the child-to-be’s genome. 14.09.2011

Pregnancy: Violence leaves epigenetic traces

The children of mothers who have been exposed to domestic violence during pregnancy exhibit a higher genetic predisposition to behavioural problems and mental disorders. This is one conclusion of a BMBF-funded project from scientists in Constance. 

Using lupin proteins means that fat content in sausages can be reduced to just 5 percent. The classic sausage texture and flavour is retained, however. 15.08.2011

Plant-based liverwurst

First there was ‘Lupinesse’, the ice cream made from pure vegetable ingredients, and now the Fraunhofer researchers are hoping to bring animal fat-free liverwurst and bologna to the supermarket counters.

The company GATC Biotech can identify the superfluous third chromosome (upper left corner) on the basis of an examination of DNA fragments from the child in the mother's blood. 13.08.2011

Trisomy 21: pre-birth testing by blood sample

Down's syndrome is the most common genetic disease. Detecting Trisomy 21 in unborn babies routinely necessitates a cell extraction procedure. Now a genetic test has been developed that can make do with only a small blood sample from the mother.

Biondi and his colleagues have crystallised the proteins to study the shape of the kinases. Using X-rays, they are able to explore the corresponding proteins in three dimensions. 22.07.2011

Reaching into the pocket of the kinases

Protein kinases, an important class of enzymes, are associated with both the development of cancer and with diabetes. Researchers in Frankfurt working within the GO-Bio Initiative are now researching ways of controlling the kinases.

The milk-like fat emulsion from the Jena nutrition researchers is baked into omega-3 whole-grain bread. 18.06.2011

Stable fats for healthier bread

Polyunsaturated fatty acids are beneficial for health, but the health-promoting substances are chemically extremely unstable. A research network is hoping to alter the fatty acids for processing into food ­additives.

Biochips from the laser printer. Instead of colour pigments, printed here are protein building block peptides - to customer specification. 28.04.2011

Peptides from the laser printer

Biochips are used to diagnose diseases, test drugs, or search for new cancer therapies. But as useful as they are, the standard production approach is extremely complicated and expensive. Researchers in Heidelberg have thus opted to take an entirely different approach: Printed biochips.

In a natural bioprocess, bacteria can convert limonene into perillic acid. 22.03.2011

Cosmetics from orange peel

Oranges are not just for orange juice. The skin can also be used as a raw material for a form of natural preservative for cosmetics, a process that researchers are now preparing for industrial application.

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