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13.08.2010
Bochum researchers have scoured the dust found in farmyard stables, and have discovered a sugar molecule that appears to be able to prevent overreactions by immune system. This could shed some light on why farm frequently children suffer from fewer allergies.
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28.07.2010
Heidelberg researchers have used a laser microscope to provide the first recordings of the early development of fruit fly embryos. The result is a ‘digital embryo’ - a film that shows dynamic cell divisions in never-before-seen detail.
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05.07.2010
Water has always been considered an indispensable solvent for protein molecules. A German-British biochemist team has now succeeded in producing myoglobin that is liquid, yet entirely water-free. This opens up entirely new perspectives for biotechnology.
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23.06.2010
Temperatures above 46 degrees Celsius are lethal for the most important laboratory bacterium E. coli, but now researchers in Munich have bred microbes over 600 generations that can withstand far higher temperatures.
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15.06.2010
Together with the Danish biotech company Novozymes, researchers in Bonn have marked the beginning of a new round in the fight against highly resistant bacteria. They have unlocked the mechanism of action of a natural bacteria killer.
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28.05.2010
Cases of diabetes are exploding in emerging countries. German researchers working with colleagues in India have now developed a yeast that is hoped will produce insulin more cheaply and easily than the currently used bacteria.
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19.05.2010
With a special trick, the body's own Mx protein counters the attack of a new influenza virus: As researchers in Freiburg and Berlin have demonstrated, the protein forms ring-shaped ‘traps’ that halt the propagation of the invaders.
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14.05.2010
Under water, the floating water fern uses a wafer-thin dress of air to stay dry. German researchers have now precisely deciphered the mechanism of action, and may have laid the groundwork for a new form of sheathing for ships’ hulls.
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12.05.2010
Scientists in Bonn have reinvented the wheel. Using DNA double strands, they have constructed a so-called rotaxane, the first nano-component with freely moving parts.
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05.05.2010
A messenger in the body's immune system can inhibit the blood supply to cancer tumours. The signalling molecule beta-interferon restricts tumour growth, report researchers in Braunschweig.
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