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Bruker Introduces Next-Generation Automated BioAFM for Quantification of Molecular Forces
ForceRobot 400 Enables High-Throughput Force Measurements for Single-Molecule Research:
Bruker has announced the release of the ForceRobot® 400 BioAFM, which marks a new milestone in force measurement capabilities. It sets new standards in automation, generating over 250,000 force curves per day to…
How much cadmium is contained in cocoa beans?
Team at BESSY II investigated heavy metal contamination of cocoa beans by combining different X-ray fluorescence techniques:
Cocoa beans can absorb toxic heavy metals such as cadmium from the soil. Some cultivation areas, especially in South America, are polluted with these heavy metals, in some cases considerably. In combining different…
The earth surveyor
Christian Freier works on quantum sensors in Adlershof:
A German, an American, an Australian. And an idea that equally fascinated the three of them. It was about basic research in physics, which, in this case, was to create a then-novel measurement procedure based on using…
High-energy X-rays leave a trace of destruction in bone collagen
Bone samples from fish and mammals were analysed at BESSY II before and after X-ray irradiation:
A team of medical researchers at Charité has analyzed damage by focused high energetic X-rays in bone samples from fish and mammals at BESSY II. With a combination of microscopy techniques, the scientists could…
Team of the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut receives Big Laser Award
FBH scientists awarded at ISLC 2022:
Scientists from the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut were honored last week with the "Big Laser Award" for the highest performance presented at the "International Semiconductor Laser Conference" (ISLC) in Japan. The award…
In conversation with Mike Neumann
Since August, the chemist has been in charge of the State Laboratory Berlin-Brandenburg:
“I have found my calling,” says Mike Neumann. After working for Landeslabor Berlin-Brandenburg (LLBB), Berlin-Brandenburg’s state laboratory, for eight years – most recently as department head for the environment and…
Data library for material researchers
The FAIRmat consortium is creating a platform for FAIR research data in materials science:
Terabytes of data: The aim of the FAIRmat consortium is not only to preserve the results and publications of materials research, but also the measurement data generated on the way there. In addition to avoiding…
SCIENION & Cellenion launch the proteoCHIP LF 48, for label-free single-cell mass spectrometry-based proteomics analysis
Optimized sample preparation workflows facilitate single cell proteomics applications:
SCIENION and its subsidiary Cellenion, both companies part of the bioconvergence powerhouse BICO, announced the release of the proteoCHIP LF 48. This chip represents the first commercially available solution enabling…
The pollutant investigator
Markus Venohr conducts research for cleaner waters in Adlershof:
Had Markus Venohr not looked at the Rhine every day from his childhood room in Duisburg, or had he not been canoeing with his parents in numerous holidays with his parents, he might well have become a musician.…
New OECD test guideline for determining the particle size of nanomaterials
Work by BAM, BAuA and UBA provides decisive milestone for standardised testing of nanomaterials:
The OECD has published a new test guideline for the measurement of spherical and fibrous nanomaterials. It is an important building block for the implementation of legal requirements for chemicals, such as the REACH…
Detecting fluorescence signals from nanoscale thin films
New measurement technique from INNOVENT e.V. and Ferdinand-Braun-Institut opens up a variety of possibilities in product labeling:
Researchers from INNOVENT e.V. and Ferdinand-Braun-Institut gGmbH have developed a measurement technique that allows to detect nanoscale fluorescent thin films for the first time without using expensive laboratory…
Bruker introduces new EDS detectors for elemental analysis in electron microscopes
With XFlash® 7, users benefit from further increased analytical performance, higher productivity and lower cost of ownership:
Bruker Corporation introduces the new XFlash 7 detector series for its QUANTAXTM energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDS) systems, enabling chemical analysis of material samples in electron microscopes with ultimate…
Calculating the "fingerprints" of molecules with artificial intelligence
HZB team uses self-learning graphical neural networks to correctly interpret experimentally obtained measurement data:
With conventional methods, it is extremely time-consuming to calculate the spectral fingerprint of larger molecules. But this is a prerequisite for correctly interpreting experimentally obtained data. Now, a team at…
Eliminating harmful antibodies
Researchers of the “reCOVer” project, funded by the ministry of education, are testing a substance against Long Covid:
The infection is over – but the symptoms remain. Researchers worldwide are looking at where Long Covid comes from and what can be done against it. One of the triggers is an immune response gone off the rails. All…
Highly sensitive measurements for the smallest particles
An innovative single particle counter is contributing to improve quality of medicines and vaccines:
Reliably identifying solid particles in liquids is complicated when the smallest particles are on the nanometre scale (billionth of a metre) and the largest particles are on the micrometre scale, which is about a…
How plants repair themselves
A research group at the Helmholtz Centre Berlin has found the crucial genetic switch:
Plants are living things. They grow, breathe, and turn carbon dioxide into oxygen using photosynthesis. How this happens exactly hasn’t yet been researched down to the last detail. However, Gert Weber, biochemist and…
The healing effect
Adlershof-based companies are showing the world what (green) biotechnology can achieve. We will introduce you to two of them that could change the rules of the game through their innovation:
Many suspect them to be cancerous even in the smallest amounts and to damage the liver, kidneys, and DNA: nitrosamines. A substance like that should be kept far away from medicines. However, that’s exactly where the…
One of the most sensitive methods for chlorine determination
BAM researchers develop method for determining chlorinated contaminants in water by molecular absorption spectrometry:
Chlorinated chemicals are well-known as long-lasting water contaminants. Many of them are formally recognized by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Although their toxicity and…
BAM uses face recognition algorithms to improve environmental balance of electric batteries
Based on the distribution of lithium isotopes, the ageing of lithium-ion batteries can be determined and evaluated:
The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) has developed an innovative method that uses algorithms from face recognition to determine the ageing of lithium-ion batteries. The method is intended to help…
Unravelling tautomeric mixtures
Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II provides detailed information on properties and biological function:
A team at HZB has developed a method of experimentally unravelling tautomeric mixtures. Based on resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at BESSY II, not only proportions of the tautomers can be deduced, but the…