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Accelero Receives EU Eurostars Funding Supporting a Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Lypodystrophy
Accelero Bioanalytics GmbH (“Accelero”) is awarded EUR 136,500 in project grants to support research and development of a gene therapy targeting lypodystrophy. The project called CGT2 is headed by Scandinavian’s…
Experiment reveals new options for synchrotron light sources
SSMB source combines advantages of synchrotron light with the benefits of FEL pulses:
An international team has shown through a sensational experiment how diverse the possibilities for employing synchrotron light sources are. Accelerator experts from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), the German…
Starting a business – then and now
What Bestec CEO Rainer Hammerschmidt can pass on to the team of the start-up JUNA:
Rainer Hammerschmidt was one of the first entrepreneurs of the Technology Park Adlershof. He enjoys passing on his experience to prospective business founders. Adlershof, thirty years ago. German reunification:…
Spooky materialisation where light beams meet
New processes from Adlershof-based xolo GmbH are revolutionising 3D printing:
The young Adlershof-based xolo GmbH is launching a novel 3D printing process. Their xolography is based on molecules that are fused to form high-precision components under the influence of light beams of different…
Aerospace research has been shaping Adlershof for more than 100 years
In view of the development of the science and technology location, Andreas Schütz, DLR's spokesperson, speaks of “an incredible success”:
Even after 30 years, Andreas Schütz, spokesperson of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), is still amazed when he arrives in Adlershof coming from his office in Berlin-Mitte. While he was working for DLR in Adlershof…
Precision landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars
DLR Adlershof is contributing a wide range of scientific expertise:
On 18 February 2021, NASA initiated the most precise landing ever attempted on the Red Planet. A spacecraft with the Perseverance rover on board entered the Martian atmosphere at just under 19,500 kilometres per hour.…
Knowing what’s inside
The Adlershof-based ASCA GmbH signed a cooperation agreement with the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM):
Drug residues in drinking water, food contaminated with pesticides, UV blockers in the Baltic Sea: Residues of chemical substances are found everywhere. The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM)…
30 isn't old!
Psychology professor Jule Specht explores how personalities change over the course of life:
It was long believed that personality development is mostly completed at 30. However, results from psychology research show: There is a lot going on beyond one’s 30th birthday – people go through considerable changes,…
An incisive experience in the company's 30-year history
Rost Werbetechnik is fighting for survival and created the “Cardboardience”:
At first glance, it seems like the TV studio is full. Every second audience member, however, is made of cardboard. Since mid-March 2020 well-known German TV shows have been shooting without an audience for safety…
The perfect recipe for efficient perovskite solar cells
HZB team improved the composition of material inks for the simple and cost-effective production of solar cells:
A long-cherished dream of materials researchers is a solar cell that converts sunlight into electrical energy as efficiently as silicon, but that can be easily and inexpensively fabricated from abundant materials.…
Honorary doctorate awarded to Prof. Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers
The Swedish Chalmers University of Technology honours the scientist from HU Berlin and DLR for his contribution to research in the field of terahertz components:
Dr. Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers is a professor at Humboldt-University Berlin and the director of the Institute of Optical Sensor Systems at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfart, DLR (German Aerospace Center), which…
Optimised transistors: creating a metal with laser light
Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin make discovery that could increase computing power:
From smartphones to computer processors – much of the technology we nowadays use heavily features transistors. They connect many of the different materials that make up these devices, and are essential for any kind of…
World's first video recording of a space-time crystal
With the help of the scanning transmission X-ray microscope MAXYMUS at BESSY II, the first recording of the recurring periodic magnetization structure in a crystal was captured:
A German-Polish research team has succeeded in creating a micrometer-sized space-time crystal consisting of magnons at room temperature. With the help of the scanning transmission X-ray microscope MAXYMUS at Bessy II…
Epimune GmbH and Tanner Pharma Group enter into Distribution Partnership for Latin America
Approvals of in-vitro diagnostic tests for immune cell quantification are expected within the second half of 2021:
Epimune GmbH, a molecular diagnostic company that develops, manufactures and commercializes in-vitro diagnostic tests for immune cell quantification from a drop of blood, announced that it has entered into a license…
PicoQuant releases new MultiHarp 160 – a scalable multichannel event timer and TCSPC unit
Designed for applications requiring up to 64 synchronized inputs without compromises in time resolution and data throughput:
During this years virtual SPIE Photonics West exhibition (March 6-11, 2021), PicoQuant will unveil its latest multichannel event timer: The MultiHarp 160, a plug-and-play time tagger and Time-Correlated Single Photon…
Dr. Michael Schneider receives the European XFEL Young Scientist Award
MBI researcher was awarded for his important contributions in three distinct areas pertaining to diffraction experiments with soft x-rays at European XFEL:
X-ray pulses delivered by x-ray free-electron lasers are typically focused to a few-micrometer size in order to achieve extreme x-ray intensities at the sample inside the scientific instrument. In his PhD work,…
SCIENION continues to grow and will build new headquarters in Berlin Adlershof
Company acquired the leasehold for a 3,037 m² state-owned property:
SCIENION AG, located in the Technology Park Adlershof since its foundation in 2001, today announced that the expanding company will build larger new headquarters at Wagner-Régeny Street in the same district of…
An efficient tool to link X-ray experiments and ab initio theory
A team at BESSY II has developed a new simulation method that greatly accelerates the evaluation of inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) measurement data:
The electronic structure of complex molecules and their chemical reactivity can be assessed by the method of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II. However, the evaluation of RIXS data has so far…
IKZ and IHP plan cooperation for the integration of crystalline III-V platelets on silicon
Development of a new transfer process could bring out the next generation devices for 5G and 6G applications:
The III-V semiconductor materials gallium arsenide and indium phosphide stand out due to their extremely high electron mobility, frequencies in the THz range, and short latency. In addition, they have a direct band…
White turns into (extreme-)ultraviolet
MBI researchers developed a new method to modify the spectral width of extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) light:
Researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) have developed a new method to modify the spectral width of extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) light. By employing a novel…