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• 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Uses Research Equipment Engineered Locally from BMG LABTECH

  Robert J. Lefkowitz from Duke University, along with Brian Kobilka from Stanford University, were just awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research and discovery of the receptor protein that binds to adrenaline, that is the beta-adrenergic receptor. A receptor protein crosses a cell more

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for groundbreaking discoveries in cells

  Your body is a fine-tuned system of interactions between billions of cells. Each cell has tiny receptors that enable it to sense its environment, so it can adapt to new situtations. Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka are awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for groundbreaking discoveries that r more

• The graphene-paved roadmap

  Writing in Nature, Nobel Prize-winner Professor Kostya Novoselov and an international team of authors has produced a 'Graphene Roadmap' which for the first time sets out what the world's thinnest, strongest and most conductive material can truly achieve. The paper details how graphene, isolated for more

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• Sniffing Out the Secrets of Social Behavior
  

  In his novel "Perfume - the Story of a Murderer", Patrick Süskind managed to put the power of odors into words better than anyone before him. It may be a fascinating idea, but no one will ever be able to create the perfect fragrance that makes a person irresistibly attractive. In the animal world, on the other hand, olfactory signals are an essential element of social communication. Yet we are only just beginning to understand the complexities and functional differences of the sense of smell in mammals. Professor Marc Spehr is leading the Department of Chemosensation at RWTH Aachen University since 2009, where he is conducting research on the neuronal mechanisms of olfactory perception and signal processing using the mouse model. In his experiments, he and his team are trying to find out how substances for social interaction are perceived and how this perception generates a specific type of behavior more

• From Sephadex to GE Healthcare
  

  The success of chromatography as a technique for separating biomolecules is inevitably linked to the introduction of the gel filtration medium Sephadex(TM) by Pharmacia AB in 1959 more

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• A Brief History of G‐Protein Coupled Receptors (Nobel Lecture)

  The idea of receptors has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Today it is known that the G‐protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent by far the largest, most versatile and most ubiquitous of the several families of plasma membrane receptors. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2012 was awa more

• The Structural Basis of G‐Protein‐Coupled Receptor Signaling (Nobel Lecture)

  Cells from different parts of our bodies communicate with each other using chemical messengers in the form of hormones and neurotransmitters. They process information encoded in these chemical messages using G‐protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs) located in the plasma membrane. The Nobel Prize for C more

• The art of blocking ARTs: Nanobodies as experimental and therapeutic tools to block mammalian and toxin ADP‐ribosyltransferases

  Abstract In 1901, the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Emil von Behring for his ground‐breaking discovery of serum therapy: serum from horses vaccinated with toxin‐containing culture medium of Corynebacterium diphtheria contained life‐saving “Antitoxins”. The molecular more

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