The amendment to the law on green Genetic Engineering inhibits innovation and research in Germany
This release is also available in .... The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) sees the draft amendment to the Genetic Engineering Act as a restriction on innovation and research in Germany. If the amendment were to be passed in its current form it runs the risk, in the opinion of the DFG, of putting German researchers at a considerable disadvantage on the internati...Germany starts clinical development of a new tuberculosis vaccine
... ......To mark World Tuberculosis Day on March 24th, a consortium of business and research centres have launched a programme to develop just such a vaccine. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB) in Berlin, under the direction of Prof. Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, have developed a highly promising vaccine candidate. And now, Vakzine Projekt Management GmbH (VPM) has ac...Scientists in Germany and Hebrew University illuminate process in control of flowering in plants
The molecular mechanism plants have adopted to trigger flowering in response to changes in light duration and quality has been demonstrated by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Their recent findings, published in the Feb. 13 edition of , have significant consequences for potential control over floweri...Sex selection for social reasons unlikely to skew gender balance in Germany and UK
Allowing sex selection for social reasons would be highly unlikely to skew the gender balance at least in Germany and the UK according to new research published today (Thursday 25 September) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction .... ...Surveys of more than 1,000 men and women in each country did reveal differences between the two countries, with the British expre...The DFG announces EURYI Awards for Germany
The first call for proposals for the European Young Investigator (EURYI) Awards to support and encourage outstanding young researchers from all over the world has been announced. ...... This new European programme for young researchers is managed and funded by the scientific and research funding organisations under the umbrella of the European Union Research Organisations Heads of Research Counci...Portuguese teacher gets hands-on look at cutting-edge research at EMBL, Germany
On July 7, 2003, Portuguese teacher Maria Goretti Matos arrived at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany to spend three days in the laboratory, working side-by-side with top scientists.... ...Maria Goretti was one of 15 teachers taking part in the course organized by the European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS), a new facility devoted to science...ART laws put patients at risk and should be changed, warns head of Germany's IVF registry
Madrid, Spain: Germany's restrictive legislation on embryo protection is putting women and babies at risk and should be modified, the chairman of the German IVF registry will tell a meeting of international fertility experts.... ...Professor Ricardo Felberbaum will warn participants at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology annual conference that other countries in Europe shoul...First clinical trial of intravenous rViscumin under way in Germany and France
Frankfurt, Germany: More than 30 patients in Germany and France with a variety of drug resistant cancers have so far been recruited to a phase I study of rViscumin, a recombinant E.coli-derived protein with a structural similarity to mistletoe lectin I a component of natural mistletoe extracts from Viscum album. ...... But, a news briefing (Thursday 21 November) at the EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium o...Health care rationing in Germany
In the years to come demographers expect the elderly population in Germany to grow due to both low birth rates and rising longevity. It has generally been assumed that population aging leads to increasing health expenditures. Data usually exhibit a linear increase in health care expenditures with age. But studies from scientists in the U.S.A question this assumption. For example, Lubitz and colle...Humboldt awarded for study of acid-mine drainage in Germany
Blacksburg, Va., Michael F. Hochella Jr., professor of geochemistry and mineralogy at Virginia Tech, has received the prestigious Humboldt Research Award to work in Germany on acid-mine drainage.... "Acid-mine drainage is an environmental problem of vast proportion," said Hochella, professor of geological sciences. In a 1998 collaboration when Hochella was a Fulbright Senior Scholar, he and And...Germany needs a national genome initiative
. . .The presidency of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has now passed a.statement Perspectives of Genome Research, thus taking the initiative in favour.of a united effort of science and state in the interest of genome research in.Germany. The publication demonstrates the inherent scientific and economical.potential of genome research. It also points out how this has created a broad.bas...From Germany To The Wild West: Geologists Hunt For Evidence Of Ancient Crinoid
.It isn't the lifestyles of the rich and famous that University of Cincinnati.geologist David Meyer is concerned about, but Meyer's efforts to understand the.lifestyles of the ten-armed fossil crinoid, Uintacrinus, did send him.globe-trotting this year. His work took him to several locations in Germany, to.the badlands of Kansas, and to the sagebrush country of Colorado. .One of his collaborato...Psychiatric Genetics From Nazi Germany: What To Do With The Data?
In a guest editorial in the March issue of Molecular Psychiatry, Dr. Miron...Baron, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, discusses the fact...that in the 30's and 40's Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party generously funded...psychiatric research in Germany aimed at identifying a genetic basis for mental...illness. Such work was followed by the Law for the Prevention of Genetically...D...