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Snap shots of one of life's central processes
Human Frontier Science Program provides funding of 900,000 US Dollars in support of international collaboration on photosynthesis:
Photosynthetic water-oxidation is one of the central processes of life on Earth but remains incompletely understood. Now, a German-American team of scientists has set out to observe the intermediate stages of this…
MagForce AG Receives Further Patent Related to NanoTherm® Therapy
European patent granted for nanoparticle-drug conjugates :
MagForce AG, a leading medical technology company in the field of nanomedicine in oncology, announced today that the Company has been granted a further European patent for its NanoTherm® therapy, for which the…
Adlershof Special 28: Renewable Energies
For the future of energy efficiency:
Model urban district // For the future of energy efficiency // Nucleus for innovative storage solutions // Tapping into heaven and earth // Climate climbers // Energy efficiency made in Adlershof // The architecture…
Model urban district
By Prof. Dr. Diethard Mager, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology:
One of the largest projects to date affecting the whole of society in Germany, the turnaround in energy policy is a great opportunity for innovation and growth. In addition to converting the nation’s power supply to…
HIGH TECH – LOW EX: For the future of energy eficiency
An interview with Beate Mekiffer, head of this pilot project in Adlershof, one of the largest inner city development areas in Europe:
Why does Adlershof need a new energy concept? Recent years have seen a huge boost to growth in Adlershof, and its energy needs will grow in line with the resulting expansions. Investors of today and tomorrow want to…
Nucleus for innovative storage solutions
Approaches for a self-sufficient energy supply:
From 2014, the 5,000 inhabitants of the Azorean island of Graciosa can expect far greater independence from the mainland. The Adlershof company Younicos will be converting the island’s electricity grid to provide the…
Tapping into heaven and earth
How renewable energies are utilised in the Technology Park Adlershof:
In Adlershof, solar energy is on the brink of breaking a new local record. At the latest in June, tenants will be able to move into the offices and laboratories of the new photovoltaics centre covering 8,000 square…
Climate Climbers
Building climatization by a façade greening system in Adlershof:
As a means to save high tech air conditioning energy, the physics building of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) in Adlershof has put on a coat of vegetation that regulates temperature – an extraordinary…
Energy efficiency Made in Adlershof
The modern district heating network of the utility company BTB:
“Local cogeneration is our method of choice,” are the words of Frank Mattat, Managing Director of the Berlin utility company BTB, whose customers also include the science location Adlershof. BTB Blockheizkraftwerks‑,…
The architecture of dialogue
The new Photovoltaics and Renewable Energies Centre ZPV in Adlershof :
A place where the identity of the linking research subject can be experienced: that was the goal of architect Gunther Henn. The outcome is an architecture of dialogue. Bernd Ludwig, Director of the Photovoltaics and…
Great opennes to new energy concepts
Adlershof as an energy efficient location:
Regenerative energies here, self-sufficient buildings there. But what is it all costing, and how much is it really saving? And will the energy supply remain stable? What can I do – in the office, the laboratory or…
Neighbors move electrons jointly
An ultrafast molecular movie on metal complexes in a crystal:
Photochemistry and molecular photovoltaics make frequent use of so-called transition metal complexes which consist of a central metal ion bonded to a group of surrounding ligands. Such materials display a strong …
Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof announces 15 doctoral fellowships
SALSA, the Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is announcing 15 doctoral fellowships to begin on October 1st, 2013. The program offers a structured, three-year period of…
Adlershof Special 27: Biotechnology
Innovative Analytics:
Calibrated to success // Innovation thanks to analytics // Diagnosis: Fatigue // Stability and Growth // Analyse, identify, quantify // Kneading and correlating // Protein snippets in the fight against cancer //…
Calibrated to success
By Mehran Khajooei, Eppendorf Vertrieb Deutschland GmbH:
For sixty six years now, Eppendorf has been a reputed premium provider of equipment, systems and consumables for laboratory work and research. Precision, reliability, experience and innovation are concepts that form…
Innovation thanks to analytics
Adlershof turns into “Analytic City”:
Analytics has a long tradition in Adlershof. The Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften (ISAS) and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) are working towards refining this profile and…
Diagnosis: fatigue
Adlershof‘s JPT Peptide Technologies and Charité develop biomarker test :
About 300,000 people in Germany suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome – presumably, because it is difficult to diagnose. This might change, however, because now a biomarker test is being developed specifically for this…
Stability and Growth
In the lobby, ASCA Managing Director Christine Wedler got talking to her neighbour. The Institut für Produktqualität had just moved into a new laboratory in Adlershof. There she learned that reference substances were…
Analyse, identify, quantify
Adlershof biotech companies have adopted a powerful position on the world market with their innovative analytical methods for protein manufacture:
Proteins are the elementary building blocks of life. Yet there is much about these substances that is yet to be researched. Especially in the human body, molecules and their interactions are complex, and often too…
Kneading and correlating
Drug delivery systems by Adlershof company TheraKine work like a Trojan horse :
It’s a little like a chocolate factory in Andreas Voigt’s laboratories: Powders are poured, mixed, and kneaded by hand to specific consistencies. Instead of gustatory delights, however, this production targets…