07.03.2010 - Financial Times
Germany: Vision begins to blur
[...] "The coalition is divided on a whole range of issues, from tax cuts to social policy and whether Turkey should join the European Union," says Jürgen Falter, professor of political science at Mainz university.
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05.03.2010 - European Commission CORDIS Express
Social media users likely to be honest, says research
[...] A group led by Mitja Back of the Johannes Gutenburg University in Mainz, Germany studied 133 American Facebook users and 103 Germans who use a similar social media site. The researchers asked the users to answer two questionnaires- one describing their actual personality and one asking about what the volunteer would see as their ideal self.
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26.02.2010 - Science News
Facebook users keep it real in online profiles
Young adults apparently present their true selves on the world's biggest social network
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22.02.2010 - research-in-germany.de
Official kick-off of the "European Language Diversity for All" research project is to take place in Mainz
EU funds research on individual and societal multilingualism with €2.67 mio.
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17.02.2010 - nanowerk.com
IBM Shared University Research Award for work to improve solar cells
IBM awarded an international prize to the Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz, Germany - to support research work being carried out by Professor Dr Claudia Felser to improve solar cells.
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04.02.2010 - Science Business
Mainz University agrees joint venture with Nagasaki University
The University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz has agreed a joint programme of research into radiation epidemiology and radiation biology with Nagasaki University in Japan.
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01.02.2010 - research-in-germany.de
University Medical Center agrees joint venture with Nagasaki University
Project funded by the BMBF promotes long-term collaboration / Contacts with Asia to be extended
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30.01.2010 - News-Medical.Net (Australia)
Mainz University Medical Center and Nagasaki University announce joint research into radiation epidemiology and biology
At the focus of the partnership will be the joint development of a program of research into radiation epidemiology and radiation biology, the establishment of an exchange program for scientists and academics at the two universities, and, over the long term, the creation of a joint multicenter research project.
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27.01.2010 - physicsworld.com
Carbon-cycle feedback smaller, but still positive
Researchers in Switzerland and Germany have analysed data stretching back 1000 years to get the best estimate yet of how changes in global temperature affect the biosphere's ability to soak up carbon dioxide. The team found that this feedback coefficient is about five times smaller than previously expected – which suggests that the amplification of manmade global warming by carbon-cycle feedback will be less than previously thought.
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14.12.2009 - The Telegraph
Wine tastes better in blue or red lit rooms
Dr Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel, of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, said: "It is already known that the colour of a drink can influence the way we taste it. "We wanted to know whether background lighting, for example in a restaurant, makes a difference as well."
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10.12.2009 - European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages
EU funded project to develop language vitality barometer
[...] The researchers from 8 universities in 6 EU Member States are gearing up to launch investigations of 14 Finno-Ugric languages. "These languages are particularly well suited to the investigations as they cover the entire spectrum of the different minority languages, starting with autochthonous languages such as Meänkieli in Sweden right through to the language of new migrant workers such as Estonians in Germany," said project coordinator Professor Anneli Sarhimaa of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
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08.12.2009 - Time Magazine
TIME's The 50 Best Inventions of 2009: Packing, Improved
Johannes Schneider may not have the coolest invention on this list, but it sure is practical. The University of Mainz researcher and his team developed an algorithm that broke the record for fitting a given number of different-size discs into the smallest circle.
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20.11.2009 - UEFA
MESGO convention signed at UEFA HQ
A convention creating a new Executive Master in European Sport Governance (MESGO) has been signed at UEFA's headquarters. [...] The course is supported by a number of academic bodies: Birkbeck Sports Business Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London; Centre de Droit et d'Economie du Sport, Université de Limoges; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya, University of Lleida; Sciences Po Paris.
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12.11.2009 - ISIS - Institute of Science in Society
Cardiovascular Risks from Swine Flu Vaccines
Now, researchers at Mainz University Medical Center in Germany led by Sucharit Bhakdi have added cardiovascular risks that are not generally appreciated.
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03.11.2009 - The Independent
Too much white wine could ruin teeth, researchers say
Drinking white wine regularly could do damage to your pearly whites - more so than drinking red wine, says a team of German researchers reporting in the journal Nutrition Research. Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz analyzed the effects of eight different varieties of red and white wines and their effects on extracted adult teeth that were soaked for 24 hours.
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21.10.2009 - Daily Express
On red alert... How white wine can rot your teeth
The scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, compared the erosive effects of eight red and white wines from Germany, France, Italy and Spain on the enamel surface of extracted human teeth.
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21.10.2009 - Daily Mail (MailOnline)
White wine rots your teeth... and brushing makes it worse
A team from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, looked at the effects of eight red and white wines from Germany, France, Italy and Spain on the enamel of teeth removed from men and women aged 40 to 65.
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30.09.2009 - apa (Azerbaijan)
"Cross-culture dialogue: Kitabi-Dede Gorgud and the Nibelungen Saga" project kicked off
The project "Cross-culture dialogue: Kitabi-Dede Gorgud and the Nibelungen Saga" was kicked off. The first international symposium within the project carried out by Baku Slavic University, Mainz University and Oswald von Wolkenstein Foundation was started at the Slavic University on Wednesday [...]
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24.09.2009 - Stars and Stripes
Near Army construction site in Germany, a trove of ancient Roman artifacts
A team of archaeology students and experts believe they have unearthed remnants of a Roman settlement from the second or third century near the construction site of an Army housing project, but the discovery isn’t expected to affect the project.
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04.09.2009 - innovations-report.de
Central Europe was repopulated 7,500 years ago - Ice Age hunter-gatherers are not the ancestors of the first sedentary tillers
Europe's first farmers were immigrants - International team headed by Mainz University analyzes the DNA of the last hunter-gatherers
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03.09.2009 - PhysOrg.com
Europe's first farmers replaced their Stone Age hunter-gatherer forerunners
DNA study suggests that further waves of prehistoric immigration are waiting to be discovered. Central and northern Europe's first farmers were immigrants with barely any ancestral ties to the modern population, a study has found.
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26.08.2009 - Medical News
New Troponin Assays Quicker to Confirm MI
A generation of new, more sensitive troponin assays has improved hospitals' ability to diagnose a heart attack to a point as early as the time of emergency department presentation, two separate studies affirmed.
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09.08.2009 - ABC News
More Debt Means More Obesity, Study Says
Being in Debt Doubles Risk of Being Overweight
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29.07.2009 - innovations-report.de
Physicists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz develop a multifunctional storage device for light
Monolithic microresonator enables the controlled coupling of light and matter / Publication in Physical Review Letters
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29.07.2009 - nanowerk.com
A multifunctional storage device for light
At the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz a team of physicists led by Professor Arno Rauschenbeutel have now for the first time realized a microresonator that combines all the desired properties, i.e., long storage time, small volume, and tunability to arbitrary optical frequencies, in a single monolithic device.
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16.07.2009 - PsychCentral
Unexplained Pain Among Depressed Patients
A new research study investigated the relatively common problem of unexplained pain or somatoform pain disorder among individuals with depression.
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16.07.2009 - research-in-germany.de
Researchers from Mainz find great diversity of fungi floating in the air
The amount and diversity of fungi floating in the air are both much higher than previously thought, according to new German research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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16.06.2009 - medicalnewsbase.com
Immune system’s role in breast cancer
Researchers working with Dr Marcus Schmidt in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University Medical Center Mainz have unlocked the key to the immune system’s significance in cases of breast cancer, thus identifying its long-neglected role in the prognosis of the disease.
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12.06.2009 - research-in-germany.de
Environmentally compatible chemical processes: Mainz University enters into new cooperation agreement in Dalian, China
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Chinese Academy of Sciences cooperate in research on the production of ionic liquids
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12.06.2009 - AZoM™ - The A to Z of Materials
Joint Effort Seeks to Develop New Chemical Process Technologies
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has extended its cooperation in the field of chemistry with scientific institutions in the People's Republic of China. According to the cooperation agreement between Mainz University and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the two partners extend their future cooperation in the development of new chemical process technologies as, for example, the production of ionic liquids.
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11.06.2009 - geology.com
Manganese Nodules and Crusts Triggered by Bacteria and Algae
Microorganisms such as bacteria and algae contribute to the process of nodule and crust accretion and catalyze the accumulation of metals, as has been shown by new research at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
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10.06.2009 - innovations-report.de
Tubes Grow From Drops
Bismuth-catalyzed growth of tin sulfide nanotubes
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04.06.2009 - New Scientist
Rusty space rocks could signal Mars water
"Seemingly surrounding Victoria, it is possible that [the rocks] are part of the impactor that created the crater," a team of researchers led by Christian Schröder at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, writes in an abstract presented at a recent planetary science conference.
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04.06.2009 - Science Centric
From oxygen transport to melanin formation: Activation mechanism of key enzymes explained
Pandinus imperator, the emperor scorpion, is not only popular as a pet, but is also of interest for research purposes. The reason for this is its blue blood, which transports oxygen and distributes it throughout the body. Like tyrosinase, the key enzyme in melanin synthesis, the blue blood pigment haemocyanin found in the emperor scorpion and other arthropods belongs to a group of special molecules that occur in all organisms and that have many different functions: colouring the skin, hair and eyes, immune response, wound healing or the brown discolouration of fruit. 'When these enzymes mutate, this may result in albinism, or in birth marks when production of the pigment melanin increases, as often seen in melanoma,' explains Professor Heinz Decker of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
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04.06.2009 - Science Daily
Bacteria And Algae Act As Biocatalysts For Deep-sea Raw Material Deposition
The sea floor is strewn with raw materials that could be very important in the future: Manganese and iron, but also rarer and more precious elements such as cobalt, copper, zinc and nickel, are present in great quantities in the form of deep-sea nodules and crusts. The depositions of such materials from seawater and sediment is the result of a process known as biomineralization.
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04.06.2009 - io9.com
Could Metal-Excreting Bacteria Avert The Next World War?
Scientists at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany want to prevent the next generation of international conflict over scarce natural resources. So they're trying to reverse-engineer metal-extracting bacteria.
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13.05.2009 - CORDIS News
Lead pollution may have kept climate cooler, study suggests
Lead particles in the atmosphere have been boosting cloud formation, a new EU-funded study reveals. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, the researchers suggest that atmospheric lead pollution may have dampened the effects of climate change in recent decades. [...] Few would advocate pumping more lead into the atmosphere to counter the effects of global warming, as it is a highly toxic metal that is harmful to human health. 'However, with the benefit of hindsight we can now explain why there has been a trend towards more rapid temperature rises in recent years; it is because mankind has cut back its emissions of lead and sulphates,' said Professor Stephen Borrmann of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.
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12.05.2009 - GEN Genetig Engineering & Biotechnology News
Molecular structure could help explain albinism, melanoma
In an elegant structural study, a team of Baylor College of Medicine and German researchers explain how hemocyanin is activated a finding that could lead to a better understanding of both ends of the skin and hair color spectrum. A report of their work appears in the current issue of the journal
Structure.
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08.05.2009 - Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
Quality of Life and Occupational Disability in Endocrine Orbitopathy
One in 2 patients with Graves' disease suffers impairments to their everyday lives. In the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, Katharina Ponto and coauthors, from Mainz University, describe affected patients' psychological stresses and occupational disability.
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04.05.2009 - The Earth Times
Hair gone white? You're bio-bleaching your hair, experts say
Next time someone remarks on how your hair is going grey, just tell them that you are not getting old but that instead you are simply bio-bleaching your hair with natural cellular hydrogen peroxide.
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08.04.2009 - Labnews
...It's enough to turn you grey
UK and German researchers have now unlocked the secret of hair turning white or gray in old age. According to them, free oxygen radicals are to blame for those pesky greys.
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07.04.2009 - readingeagle.com
German students, professors discover a bit of home on visit to Berks
University group touring local sites linked to immigrants from Palatinate region
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06.04.2009 - Journal of Clinical Oncology
Results of a Phase III, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study of Sorafenib
in Combination With Carboplatin and Paclitaxel As Second-Line Treatment in Patients With Unresectable Stage III or Stage IV Melanoma
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16.03.2009 - irishhealth.com
Epilepsy in elderly often not recognised
According to German researchers, the condition was long thought to be a disease of infancy, childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. However studies have shown that it is most common among people over the age of 75
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13.03.2009 - Bio-Medicine (bio-medicine.org)
Epilepsy in the elderly
In the new edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International [...], Konrad J. Werhahn of the Epilepsy Center of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, presents the clinical characteristics of the disease and the therapeutic options.
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12.03.2009 - COSMOS magazine (Australia)
Natural bleach-job: why hair turns grey
The authors of the study, from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany and the University of Bradford in England, determined the greying process by studying cell cultures of human hair follicles.
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11.03.2009 - World Bulletin
Natural peroxide responsible for turning hair white
Researchers found that hydrogen peroxide created by cells plays a key role in age-related loss of hair colour.
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11.03.2009 - Science Centric
Grey hair in old age: Hydrogen peroxide inhibits the synthesis of melanin
Grey or white hair develops with advancing age in an entirely natural ageing process which results in the generation of less and less colour pigments. Researchers of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany and the University of Bradford in Great Britain have now unlocked the secret of hair turning white or grey in old age.
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03.03.2009 - BBC News
Experts uncover cause of greyness
Scientists at Bradford University believe they have uncovered the root cause of why hair turns grey. [...] The scientists worked in collaboration with experts in Mainz and Luebeck in Germany and the discoveries have been published in the FASEB scientific journal, published by the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology.
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01.03.2009 - Science Centric
Old cells work differently
The agglutination and accumulation of proteins in nerve cells are major hallmarks of age-related neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease. Cellular survival thus depends on a controlled removal of excessive protein. Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have now discovered exactly how specific control proteins regulate protein breakdown during the ageing process.
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28.02.2009 - Financial Times
Mystery of greyness solved
The mystery of why human hair turns grey as we age has been solved by researchers at Bradford University with colleagues at Mainz and Lübeck universities in Germany.
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27.02.2009 - Medical News Today
New Predictive Tool Could Be Used To Identify People At Risk Of Atrial Fibrillation
Renate Schnabel from the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany, and Emelia Benjamin from Boston University School of Medicine in Massachusetts, USA, and colleagues, aimed to create a new way to score an individual's risk using clinical characteristics that can be easily assessed in primary care settings.
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25.02.2009 - C&EN - Chemical and Engineering News
Chemical Beaver Tale
Horst Kunz and colleagues at the University of Mainz report the first enantioselective synthesis of an all-cis nupharamine found in the beaver's scent gland
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24.02.2009 - TopNews (India)
Mechanism that protects against development of Alzheimer's identified
Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have identified the mechanism that protects against the development of Alzheimer's disease
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20.02.2009 - Photonics Online
Lasers Measure 1-Neutron Halo
Using lasers, scientists in Mainz, Germany, have precisely measured the single-neutron halo of the isotope beryllium-11 for the first time, work that may help them gain a better understanding of the forces within the atomic nucleus that bind atoms together.
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19.02.2009 - research-in-germany.de
Institute of Slavic Studies of the University of Mainz inaugurates archive from the estate of Wolfgang Kasack
Private library of renowned Slavicist Wolfgang Kasack enriches the library of the Institute of Slavic Studies at Mainz University
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17.02.2009 - Medical News Today
Mechanisms That Prevent Alzheimer's Disease: Enzymatic Activity Plays Key Role
In a project involving the collaboration of several institutes, research scientists of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have succeeded in gaining further insight in the functioning of endogenous mechanisms that protect against the development of Alzheimer's disease.
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17.02.2009 - innovations-report.de
The Beaver as Chemist
Total synthesis of enantiomerically pure nupharamine alkaloids from castoreum
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16.02.2009 - Science Centric
Mechanisms that prevent Alzheimer's disease: Enzymatic activity plays key role
In a project involving the collaboration of several institutes, research scientists of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have succeeded in gaining further insight in the functioning of endogenous mechanisms that protect against the development of Alzheimer's disease.
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16.02.2009 - research-in-germany.de
Excellence Center for Life Sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Life sciences - significance and potential of one of the leading sciences of the 21st century
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01.02.2009 - spectroscopyNOW.com
Getting inside bacteria with NMR
Now, scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, are figuring out how bacteria manage to assimilate readings from their environment through membranes into the cell nuclei that control their next move.
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15.01.2009 - Journal of Nanotechnology Online
The Sixty-Four-Thousand-Dollar Question: How Signals are Transmitted Across Cell Membrane
Bacteria can occur almost anywhere on earth and exist under the most varying conditions. If these tiny, microscopic organisms are to survive in these environments, they need to be able to rapidly detect changes in their surroundings and react to them. Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz are currently investigating how bacteria manage to pass information on their environment across their membranes into their cell nuclei.
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15.01.2009 - Science Centric
Five years of Mainz technology on Mars
On 4 January 2004, NASA's rover 'Spirit' landed safely on Mars after a seven-month voyage through space. Three weeks later, its twin 'Opportunity' also touched down unharmed on the red planet. Both these rovers were carrying investigational instruments constructed in Mainz.
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29.12.2008 - Science Centric
Physicists at Mainz University generate ultracold neutrons at the TRIGA Reactor
For the first time ever, scientists at the TRIGA research reactor of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have determined the velocity distribution of ultracold neutrons (UCN) emitted by a deuterium ice crystal.
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19.12.2008 - Science Daily
Between Dormancy And Self-renewal: Mouse Model Shows Blood Stem Cells In Action
Over a period of five years, scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have managed to create a genetically modified mouse in which the activity of the blood stem cells can be tracked. "This mouse was created from a single embryonic stem cell.
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18.12.2008 - News-Medical.Net (Australia)
How cancer cells ensure their survival
A team of researchers headed by Professor Roland Stauber of Mainz University's ENT clinic has identified a molecular mechanism used by cancer cells to "defend" themselves against chemotherapeutics in an attempt to ensure their own survival.
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17.12.2008 - Science Daily
Small Molecules, Large Effect: How Cancer Cells Ensure Their Survival
A team of researchers headed by Professor Roland Stauber of Mainz University's ENT clinic has identified a molecular mechanism used by cancer cells to "defend" themselves against chemotherapeutics in an attempt to ensure their own survival. Both the messenger substance nitrogen monoxide (NO) and the protein survivin play a role in this.
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16.12.2008 - Wildlife Extra (UK)
What determines clutch size? Tropical birds lay fewer eggs
The world is home to about 9,700 bird species. Some of them lay ten eggs in their nest, while others lay only one -Why?
Scientists from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the University of California at San Diego and Stanford University have used a novel approach to investigate which factors are decisive for clutch size, thus presenting the first global analysis of the clutch sizes of birds.
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15.12.2008 - Time Magazine
The Top 10 Everything of 2008
Top 10 Scientific Discoveries - 10. First Family
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15.12.2008 - innovations-report.de
Between dormancy and self-renewal: Mainz mouse model shows blood stem cells in action
Over a period of five years, scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have managed to create a genetically modified mouse in which the activity of the blood stem cells can be tracked.
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12.12.2008 - Photonics Online
Investigating New Materials
The experimental setup in Mainz allows the density of the atoms and the strength of the repulsive interaction between the atoms to be tuned independently of each other. By investigating the behaviour of the atoms under compression and increasing interactions the experimentalists led by Prof. Immanuel Bloch of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have been able to detect the Mott insulator in the quantum gas of the atoms.
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09.12.2008 - Science Daily
Why Some Bird Species Lay Only One Egg
Why do some species of birds lay only one egg in their nest, while others lay 10 or more?
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08.12.2008 - Science Daily
Wind Screen Collects Cool Air To Help Save The Rhône Glacier In Switzerland
A small wind screen has been erected on a glacier to test the concept of collecting cool air and reducing melting caused by global warming.
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07.12.2008 - Science Centric
Wind screen on the Rhone glacier in Switzerland creates cold air cushion
By constructing a wind screen on the Rhone glacier in Switzerland, cold downwinds, which normally pass unhindered into the valley, can be intercepted and collected, thus creating a cold air cushion at the wind screen and in its close vicinity. 'Our test wind screen set up on the Rhone glacier resulted in a definite cooling of the air near the surface, with the drop in temperature being up to three degrees centigrade,' reported Professor Hans-Joachim Fuchs of the Institute of Geography of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
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06.12.2008 - Science Centric
Quantum simulator for complex electronic materials
In the latest issue of the journal Science researchers from the University of Mainz, the University of Cologne and the Forschungszentrum Juelich show how to simulate the properties of electrons in a real crystal by using ultracold fermionic atoms trapped in an artificial crystal formed by interfering laser beams - a so-called optical lattice.
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05.12.2008 - Nanotechnology Now
Quantum Simulator for Complex Electronic Materials
Researchers from Mainz, Cologne and Jülich simulate complex electronic insulator with ultracold atoms in artificial crystals of light
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04.12.2008 - PhysOrg.com
Investigating new materials with ultracold atoms
The investigation of complex materials such as high-temperature superconductors is problematic because of the presence of disorder and many competing interactions in real crystalline materials.
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19.11.2008 - The New York Times
Using a Variety of Tools, Researchers Unravel Tale of German Graves
Using DNA analysis and other techniques, Wolfgang Haak and Guido Brandt of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and colleagues have pieced together parts of the story. Their findings are in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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18.11.2008 - The Guardian
World's oldest nuclear family unearthed in Germany
DNA extracted from bones and teeth in a 4,600-year-old stone age burial has provided the earliest evidence for the nuclear family as a social structure
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21.10.2008 - Science Daily
Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Governor's Palace In Turkey
Within the scope of an international rescue excavation project, a team of four archaeologists specialized in Middle Eastern affairs headed by Dr. Dirk Wicke (Institute of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies of Mainz University) have unearthed parts of a Neo-Assyrian governor's palace dating back to the 9th to 7th century BCE in a two-month excavation program amongst the ruins on Ziyaret Tepe. The discoveries were extraordinary.
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06.10.2008 - Deutsche Welle
Brilliant Minds - Cuban geologist Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte
Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte from Cuba is carrying out research at the University of Mainz.
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03.09.2008 - COSMOS magazine (Australia)
Giant screen to slow glacial melt
Researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss Alps that they hope will trap cold air over the icy mass. "We hope our installations will bring about a net cooling of the area, and if the melt is not stopped, that it is at least slowed," said the project's leader, geography professor Hans-Joachim Fuchs of Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany.
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20.08.2008 - The Independent
How catching cold mountain air could save Europe's glaciers
A German geography professor has developed a controversial system of mountain "wind-catching" screens which he claims could slow or even halt the dramatic rate at which Europe's glaciers are melting.
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18.08.2008 - European Research Headlines (European Commission)
Cracking open pearl fraud
Over 75 years ago, Japanese innovator Kokichi Mikimoto shovelled 720 000 pearls into a burning furnace. His actions reverberated around the world and across time itself. By showing his willingness to destroy so many pearls, he made a commitment to sell only the very best and to destroy the rest. To this day, Japanese pearls demand and receive a premium. As a result, many try to pass off their pearls as Japanese, even though they may come from elsewhere. Now two scientists from Germany have developed a method to determine the birthplace of pearls.
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18.08.2008 - Labnews
A word in your shell like...
Finding a seashell is one of the many pleasures of a summer holiday on the coast - but many people will not be aware that they have found a unique record of the climate. For one German scientist however these hard calcium shells provide a profound insight into the history of our earth and especially into the climate of the past. Professor Bernd Schöne - a palaeontologist from Mainz University - thinks that by examining shells he can reconstruct the climatic history of the past 500 years.
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14.08.2008 - AFP
Germans try to slow glacier melt with giant screen
German researchers trying to slow melting glaciers have set up a large screen in the Swiss Alps that they hope will trap cold air over the icy mass, Johannes Gutenberg University said Thursday.
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13.08.2008 - Science Daily
Nature Or Nurture: Are You Who Your Brain Chemistry Says You Are?
Researchers using positron emission tomography (PET) have validated a long-held theory that individual personality traits - particularly reward dependency - are connected to brain chemistry, a finding that has implications for better understanding and treating substance abuse and other addictive behaviors.
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29.07.2008 - The Earth Times
Athera Biotechnology Founder Johan Frostegard and His Colleagues Win NACB Distinguished Abstract Award at AACC 2008
The project involves 10 academic and industrial partners, including Phadia GmbH, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz and Leiden University Medical Center.
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24.07.2008 - National Geographic
Ancient Olympic Chariot Racetrack Located?
The ancient circuit, where Olympic competitors raced in chariots or on horseback, was found in May by a team including Norbert Müller of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
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22.07.2008 - Reuters
Germans find Olympic course where Nero raced chariot
German archaeologists using radar technology believe they may have discovered the ancient horse racing track at Olympia where Roman Emperor Nero bribed his way to Olympic laurels.
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21.07.2008 - The Earth Times
German archaeologists locate site of hippodrome at ancient Olympia
Buried under flood-water silt for centuries, the site of the ancient hippodrome chariot race track at Olympia in Greece has been located by a team of German scientists using sophisticated geomagnetic technology to find structures hidden beneath the top soil.
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16.07.2008 - The Wall Street Journal
China Counts the Cost of Hosting the Olympics
Holger Preuss, a professor of sports economics at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, says Beijing has set a precedent that future hosts, including London, won't be able to match. "Many [International Olympic Committee] members are already thinking we have to find a way to reduce the size of the Games to make more cities able to really host the Games. Because if it continues -- just think of $50 billion -- maybe only 10 cities in the world can afford 50 billion."
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15.07.2008 - RIAN - Russian News & Information Agency
Archaeologists find 1,600-year-old racecourse in Greece
"This discovery is an archaeological sensation," said Norbert Muller of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
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15.07.2008 - PhysOrg.com
Fraud with cultured pearls can be detected
Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) advise buyers of cultured pearls to be more vigilant. "In Germany too, we are increasingly seeing Chinese sweet-water cultured pearls being marketed as Japanese, although they actually originate from China," say Dr Dorrit Jacob and Ursula Wehrmeister of the Institute of Geosciences.
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14.07.2008 - Science Daily
Horse Racecourse In Ancient Olympia Discovered After 1600 Years
"This discovery is an archaeological sensation," commented Norbert Müller of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. The research project extended over several weeks before being completed in the middle of May 2008.
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10.07.2008 - innovations-report.de
Sedentary, but highly mobile
In Germany every second person of working age has experience with occupational mobility. Germans are considered to be sedentary and unwilling to leave their familiar surroundings, but the labour market requires more mobile and flexible workers than ever before.
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10.07.2008 - innovations-report.de
Mainz University involved in new DFG Collaborative Research Center in the field of immune responses
T cells play a very important role as part of the immune system. The various types of T cells have different tasks within the immune response. If this defense system fails, conditions such as allergies and autoimmune diseases can develop. The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG) has now approved a research application submitted by laboratories in Würzburg, Berlin and Mainz, the purpose of which is to investigate how genetic control determines the development and function of the various T cells.
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10.07.2008 - Science Centric
On the mechanisms of myelin formation in the central nervous system
To allow nerve cells to transmit information efficiently over long distances, advanced life forms have developed a mechanism known as saltatory conduction. This is made possible by an insulating sheath of myelin that forms at certain intervals around the axonal extensions of nerve cells that specialise in the transmission of stimuli. Two projects undertaken by the Department of Molecular Cell Biology of the Faculty of Biology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz have now made a significant contribution towards understanding these complex cellular processes.
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09.07.2008 - Science Daily
Shells Form Unique Climate Archive On The Ocean Floor
For Professor Bernd Schöne of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, hard calcium shells provide a profound insight into the history of our earth and especially into the climate of the past. "We are currently able to reconstruct the climatic history of the past 500 years from shells on a year-by-year basis. Thus we can demonstrate, for example, that the North Sea has become one degree warmer over the past hundred years, probably an effect attributable to humans," explains the palaeontologist from Mainz.
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05.06.2008 - Science Daily
The Protein IRF4 Takes Control Of Inflammation In The Gut
New insight into the molecular mechanisms controlling IL-6 production in a mouse model of IBDs has now been provided by Markus Neurath and colleagues, at the University of Mainz, Germany, and might lead to the development of new drugs to treat individuals with IBDs.
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03.06.2008 - innovations-report.de
DFG Establishes Eight New Collaborative Research Centres
On 01 July 2008, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will establish eight new Collaborative Research Centres (CRC). These will be funded initially for four years with a total of 59.5 million euros. In addition, there will be a 20 percent programme lump sum for each one for indirect costs resulting from the research projects.
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06.03.2008 - Deutsche Welle
Juggling Ultra-Cold Atoms
Though he’s just 32 years old, Immanuel Bloch is already a professor of physics at the University of Mainz. He’s an expert on a state of matter that was predicted by Albert Einstein -- Bose-Einstein condensation.
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04.03.2008 - Deutsche Welle
Snow Research - The Magic of the White Flakes
No one knows snowflakes like Sebastian Raupach of the Institute for the Physics of the Atmosphere at the University of Mainz. For his doctoral thesis, the young physicist built a special laser camera that can take pictures of snowflakes while they fall.
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10.01.2008 - The Telegraph
Nuclear power 'increases child leukaemia risk'
Researchers at the University of Mainz, who are responsible for the German Register of Child Cancers, identified 593 cases of children aged under five-years-old diagnosed with leukaemia between 1980 and 2003. They also selected 1,766 healthy controls in the same age group. The scientists found children living within 3.1 miles (5km) of a nuclear power station were over twice - 2.19 times - as likely to be diagnosed with leukaemia as those living outside that zone.
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18.12.2007 - innovations-report.de
Polymerization From the Individual Molecule’s Point of View
Following radical polymerization with single-molecule spectroscopy of fluorescing probes. [...] A Belgian and German team from the University of Leuwen and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz has now been able to follow polymerizations from the point of view of individual molecules. As they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, Johan Hofkens and his team used the techniques of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and far-field microscopy to observe fluorescing sample molecules throughout the entire process of the radical polymerization of styrene.
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09.10.2007 - News-Medical.Net (Australia)
How does THC work?
Using an advanced genetic approach, Krisztina Monory and colleagues at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz discovered that specific neuronal subpopulations mediate the distinct effects of THC. Their work is published online this week in the open-access journal PLoS Biology.
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18.09.2007 - Science Daily
Accepted Notion Of Neutron's Electrical Properties Overturned By New Research
For two generations of physicists, it has been a standard belief that the neutron, an electrically neutral elementary particle and a primary component of an atom, actually carries a positive charge at its center and an offsetting negative charge at its outer edge. [...] The findings are based on data collected at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va., the Bates Linear Accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Mainz Microtron at Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany.
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30.08.2007 - The Telegraph
Secret tapes of top Nazis
Richard Overy reviews Tapping Hitler's Generals: Transcripts of Secret Conversations, 1942-45 ed by Sönke Neitzel [...] Sönke Neitzel, a professor at the University of Mainz, has edited a volume of key extracts from the tape-recorded discussions and there is no doubt that they are of much more service to the historian than they ever were to British Intelligence.
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23.08.2007 - The New York Times
Scientists Induce Out-of-Body Sensation
Using virtual reality goggles, a camera and a stick, scientists have induced out-of-body experiences - the sensation of drifting outside of one’s own body - in healthy people, according to experiments being published in the journal Science.
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20.08.2007 - innovations-report.de
Effectiveness of mouse breeds that mimic Alzheimer's disease symptoms questioned
Scientists have shown that recently developed mouse breeds that mimic the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) may not be as effective as previously assumed. Sascha Weggen, Professor of Molecular Neuropathology at Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany; lead author Eva Czirr, Ph.D. student at the University of Mainz, Germany; and colleagues show in the August 24 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry that in some mouse breeds, drugs that had been shown to reduce levels of a toxic protein called amyloid beta had only minor or no effect on these mice.
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20.06.2007 - Medical News Today
Progress Toward An Antitumor Vaccine
A team led by Horst Kunst at the University of Mainz has now found a way to bind a molecule that is typical for tumors to a carrier protein without irritating the immune system. As they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, their method is based on an immunocompatible connection by way of a sulfur atom, namely, a thioether.
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09.06.2007 - Deutsche Welle
Study: World Cup Continues to Boost German Economy
In World Cup year, GDP - the total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country - rose by 3.233 billion euros, according to the study by the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.
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07.06.2007 - Deccan Herald
Sun exposure may reduce malignant lymphoma risk
Dr Thomas Weihkopf from Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, and colleagues examined the relationship between malignant lymphoma and lifetime exposure to UV in different settings, including outdoor leisure activities, vacations, sunbed use and occupational exposures.
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06.06.2007 - Science Daily
Hypothyroidism Clearly Linked To Mood Swings
Hypothyroidism is often associated with mood changes like depression lethargy. Researchers, studying underlying brain processes in search of "why" this happens, reported their results at the 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals.
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05.06.2007 - EurekAlert.com
DFG approves 11 new Collaborative Research Centers
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will establish eleven new Collaborative Research Centres (SFBs) on 1 July 2007. They will receive a total of 75.5 million euros in funding over the next four years. Research conducted in the centres will include work on the reconstruction of biological body functions using versatile "molecular switches" and innovative optical technology. Four of the new SFBs will be Transregional Collaborative Research Centres, which are located at multiple sites.
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13.05.2007 - Toronto Star
The strategic advantage of being able to drink milk
Scientists at Mainz University in Germany took bones from eight people who had lived between 7,000 and 8,000 years ago in parts of Europe where cow herding was already common. The scientists managed to extract enough undamaged DNA to test for the lactose-tolerance mutation. They found that none of the people carried the mutation. That means it's very unlikely that lactose tolerance was widespread by that time. Otherwise, it's probable that at least some of the people tested would have carried the mutation.
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17.03.2007 - innovations-report.de
Researchers identify molecular basis of inflammatory bowel disease
Researchers from the Universities of Cologne and Mainz in Germany, the Mouse Biology Unit of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Italy and their collaborators, have now deciphered a molecular signal that triggers chronic intestinal inflammation. The study, which is published in the current online issue of Nature, shows that blocking a signaling molecule causes severe intestinal inflammation in mice and reveals a molecular mechanism that is likely to also underpin human inflammatory bowel disease.
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27.02.2007 - The Telegraph
Milk allergy 'caused by Stone Age genes'
The rival idea, that dairy farming was pioneered by a small group of Neolithic farmers who were able to tolerate milk, is overturned by the genetic study by a team from University College London and Mainz University, Germany.
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26.02.2007 - National Geographic
Stone Age Adults Couldn't Stomach Milk, Gene Study Shows
Milk wasn't on the Stone Age menu, says a new study which suggests the vast majority of adult Europeans were lactose intolerant as recently as 7,000 years ago. [...] The study was led by Joachim Burger of the Institute of Archaeology at Mainz University in Germany.
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15.01.2007 - Medical News Today
Protecting Nerves During Surgery
An alarm tone warns the surgeon that the position of his scalpel is dangerously close to the nerve leading to the patient's vocal cords - the beep tone signals excessive pressure on the nerve. [...] The new alarm system combines the skills of numerous research partners. The Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT was joined by the University Hospital in Mainz and the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart, along with the companies Dr. Osypka GmbH, Reinhardt Microtech GmbH and Inomed Medizintechnik GmbH. The project was one of the winners of the 2006 innovation competition for medical engineering.
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18.12.2006 - The Washington Post
Tinnitus Type Affects Severity, Symptoms
"In particular, higher levels of severity were found in men, older adults, binaural (in both ears) and centrally perceived tinnitus, increase in tinnitus sensitivity since onset, sensitivity to loud external noise, continuous tinnitus (as opposed to intermittent tinnitus), and the coexistence of hearing loss, vertigo and hyperacusis (abnormal sensitivity to sounds)," wrote the team from the University of Mainz and the Roseneck Center of Behavioral Medicine in Prien.
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19.08.2006 - Medical News Today
Brain's Cannabinoid System 'mellows' Seizures
The same brain machinery that responds to the active substance in marijuana provides a central "on-demand" protection against seizures, researchers have found. [...] The findings were published by Beat Lutz and Giovanni Marsicano, of Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, and colleagues in the August 2006, issue of the journal Neuron, published by Cell Press.
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28.03.2006 - Deutsche Welle
Europe's Role in Middle East Waning
As part of the Middle East Quartet, Germany and the EU have a vested interest in the Israeli elections. German Middle East expert Günter Meyer, however, says that the influence on Israel's policies is waning.
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23.02.2006 - The Telegraph
Lump above eye that 'killed Shakespeare'
Shakespeare scholarship, lively at the best of times, saw the fur flying yesterday after a German academic claimed to have authenticated not just one but four contemporary images of the playwright - and suggested, to boot, that he had died of cancer. As the National Portrait Gallery planned to reveal that only one of half a dozen claimed portraits of William Shakespeare can now be considered genuine, Prof Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel said she could prove that there were at least four surviving portraits of the playwright.
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27.01.2006 - The Guardian
Germany agonises over 30% childless women
"Compulsory paid leave for fathers is a good idea," Professor Norbert Schneider, a sociologist at Mainz University, told the Guardian. "Germany now has the highest number of childless women in the world. This trend has been going on since at least the 90s. What we also know is that the higher the level of education, the more likely a woman is to remain childless."
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