Find Latest News
Latest News 2014/07
Latest news from laboratory, environment, chemistry, life science and quality control
- X-ray vision for quality assurance
A DTU researcher has developed a method that uses X-rays for the rapid identification of substances present in an indeterminate powder. The new technique has the capacity to recognize advanced biol... - New chapter on pharmacogenetic added to Guide on Methodological Standards
The European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP), coordinated by the European Medicines Agency, has revised its guide on methodological standards in pharmacoe... - New technology to transfer magnetic fields to arbitrary long distances
A group of physicists has developed a new technology to transfer magnetic fields to arbitrary long distances, which is comparable to transmitting and routing light in optical fibers. Oriol Romero-I... - Recent proficiency test proves competence of laboratories in pesticide analysis
National Reference Laboratories from the European Union Member States and a similar number of non-EU laboratories participated in the study. Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 sets maximum residue leve... - Neutrons and X-rays reveal structure of high-temperature liquid metal oxides
By levitating a bead of ceramic oxide, heating it with a 400-watt carbon dioxide laser, then shooting the molten material with X-rays and neutrons, scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's O... - Carbon-gold compound of high stability isolated
With a chemical "trick", scientists at Heidelberg University have succeeded in isolating a stable gold carbene complex. Chemist Prof. Dr. Bernd F. Straub and his team are the first to have created ... - Portable environmental measuring device records concentrations of noxious substances especially efficiently
Matthias Schmittmann and Johannes Weber, Class 14 students at NIT Northern Institute of Technology Management, have together with the Institute of Measurement Technology at the Hamburg University o... - Major investment in European XFEL user consortium
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC), and the Wellcome Trust, all based in the United Kingdom, will contribute 5.64 M£ (about 7 M€)... - "Enzyme Google" enables search for new enzyme functions
A new search engine, including database with more than 100.000 proteins opens up totally new possibilities in the search for new enzyme functions. This "Catalophor system" is patented. Enzymes a... - Successful manipulation of atoms on an insulating surface at room temperature
The manipulation of atoms has reached a new level: Together with teams from Finland and Japan, physicists from the University of Basel were able to place 20 single atoms on a fully insulated surfac... - Imaging method improved by scrambling X-rays from a new source
X-ray phase-contrast imaging can provide high-quality images of objects with lower radiation dose. But until now these images have been hard to obtain and required special X-ray sources whose prope... - First chlorine-free formulation that emits blue light upon combustion
Conventional fireworks and signal flares that emit a blue flame utilize toxic chemicals as a source of chlorine. Chemists at LMU have now developed the first chlorine-free formulation that emits bl... - Identifying the structure of a vital enzyme intermediate by neutron crystallography
An international team of researchers led by the University of Leicester and the Institut Laue-Langevin have solved a long-standing mystery in biology by identifying the structure of a vital enzyme ... - Novel catalyst can facilitate water electrolysis and hydrogen combustion
Chemists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have made a decisive step towards more cost-efficient regenerative fuel cells and rechargeable metal-air batteries. They developed a new type of catalyst on ... - LABVOLUTION - a new lab technology show in Hannover
The Hannover-based trade fair organizers Deutsche Messe are launching LABVOLUTION, a new trade fair to be staged every two years as a major platform for the world of lab technology and equipment. L... - More efficient electrochemical processes through novel nanofibers
When can we expect to drive the length of Germany in an electric car without having to top up the battery? Chemists at the NIM Cluster at LMU and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, h... - Candidate List updated with four new Substances of Very High Concern
The European Chemicals Agency has added cadmium chloride, a phthalate and two boron substances to the Candidate List, which now contains 155 substances. Cadmium chloride is a carcinogenic, mutag... - Optimized spectroscopic studies of ions or atoms by hollow optical fibers
If you want to send light on a trip through optical fibres - with as little loss as possible, you should opt for infrared light, as is the case, for example, in the telecommunication networks world... - Nano-adapters: stimulus for single-molecule DNA sequencing
Scientists at the Braunschweig University of Technology have developed tiny adapters that allow the coupling of molecules to nanostructures and their precise positioning on the scale of a millionth... - High-Precision Nanosensors: 10 Year old Theoretical Proposal Implemented
Scientists at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel were able to show that specifically modified diamonds could work as high precision nanosensors. The researchers used single ... - Producing hydrogen with sunlight
All over the world researchers are investigating solar cells which imitate plant photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to create synthetic fuels such as hydrogen. Empa researchers have developed... - New insights into biomolecular transport processes
Biological membranes are like a guarded border. They separate the cell from the environment and at the same time control the import and export of molecules. The nuclear membrane can be crossed via ... - Award for characterizing mechanical and chemical interactions
Samet Varol has been awarded with the Gold prize in the "Young Scientist Lecture Competition Award" for his lecture about the relation between chemical and mechanical properties of nanocomposites a...