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HILDEN and BERLIN, Germany, January 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - Collaboration to create molecular test assessing a person's risk for latent TB progressing to active TB, enabling early treatment and disease outbreak prevention - QIAGEN strengthening its leading infectious disease portfolio with development of DNA-/RNA-based test that complements QuantiFERON-TB Gold test for latent TB - New assay will use whole blood...

The paperback version of Transform Your Body after 40, a Women’s Guide to Weight Loss & Fitness has been released on Amazon after its launch on Kindle. The launch was celebrated this week with a party in Berlin. Berlin (PRWEB) December 30, 2011 The paperback version of Transform Your Body after 40, a Women’s Guide to Weight Loss & Fitness has been released on Amazon after its launch on Kindle. The launch was celebrated this week with a party in Berlin. The book has already...

The news came as an unpleasant surprise to Bally members when Bally Total Fitness announced the sale of 171 of its clubs to former rival LA Fitness. In New Jersey, Bally’s five facilities were among those affected – with two closing and three transitioning into LA Fitness clubs. Enter Future Fitness. West Berlin, N.J. (PRWEB) December 30, 2011 When Bally Total Fitness announced the sale of 171 of its clubs to former rival LA Fitness in November, the news came as an unpleasant surprise...

A German security expert this week said a vulnerability in a widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain access to cellphones remotely, causing them to send text messages or make phone calls. Hackers could use the vulnerability in the GSM network technology, which is used by billions of people in about 80 percent of the global mobile market, using them for their scams, said Karsten Nohl, head of Germany’s Security Research Labs. Similar attacks on a smaller scale have...

Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have found out why the African naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber), one of the world’s most unusual mammals, feels no pain when exposed to acid. African naked mole-rats live densely packed in narrow dark burrows where ambient carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are very high. In body tissues, CO2 is converted into acid, which continuously activates pain sensors. However, naked mole-rats are an exception: they have...

RESTON, Virginia, December 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ekahau Inc. the leading global provider of high performance Wi-Fi-based Real-Time Location Systems [http://www.ekahau.com/products/real-time-location-system/overview.html ] (RTLS), and KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG, the endoscopy specialist, announced today a joint solution for OR management. The MIC Clinic in Berlin has successfully deployed and is using the combined solution of Karl Storz ORchestrion(R) and Ekahau RTLS for...

NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Screenvision, a leading innovator in cinema advertising and alternative content programming, is partnering with Ace Arts, a curator and provider of high quality performing arts content for presentation in cinema, to bring three of the opera's most acclaimed new stars into movie theaters in early 2012. The attraction, entitled "3 Superstars in Berlin," will be available in more than 300 movie theaters across the U.S. on January 26 and...

BERLIN and BURLINGTON, Mass., Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- caprotec bioanalytics GmbH announced today the discovery of previously unknown specific drug-protein interactions for several anti-cancer drugs and the identification of potential novel co-targets of the drug molecules through the use of company's CCMS technology. These scientific findings are published in peer-reviewed articles in Journal of Proteomics, Proteomics and Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology. These...

BERLIN and PARIS, December 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Berlin has quickly become a key hotspot for the start-up scene. This trend is not slowing anytime soon, proven by the recent multimillion dollar investment by Skype's founder in Berlin start-up 6Wunderkinder. And with a national culture of innovation that spans app developers to the auto industry, innovative IT clusters are developing across Germany. Germany Trade & Invest will have experts at this year's Le Web 2011 from...

BERLIN, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rene La Taupe, the affable and humorous singing mole and internet sensation, has released his latest single, Rock La Vie, in France. Together with Alvin, Simon and Theodore from ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, Rene La Taupe has created an original single "Rock La Vie" for the whole family this holiday season to coincide with the release of ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 3 in theaters in France December 21st. (Photo: <font size="2"...