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BRUSSELS, February 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin has announced it is to offer its business guests a new dimension of conference equipment. The first class hotel in Berlin [http://www.radissonblu.com/hotel-berlin ], located right next to the magnificent Cathedral, is now offering business guests using the hotels' DomLounge the opportunity to hold conferences that benefit from innovative technology and interactive communication, as well as a...

Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have now identified and described a molecular mechanism underlying the most common malformation of the brain in humans. In holoprosencephaly (HPE), the forebrain (prosencephalon) is only incompletely formed. Here a binding site (receptor) for cholesterol plays a key role. If this receptor is defective, specific signals cannot be received, and the forebrain cannot separate into two hemispheres, as Dr. Annabel...

BERLIN and SAN FRANCISCO, February 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With a strong presence in San Francisco and a place in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Network Access Control (NAC) 2011"[1], German software vendor AUCONET has made a decisive step into the US market. The renowned research and consulting company Gartner Inc. reviewed AUCONET and its newest NAC solutions, which are already being used successfully by clients with well over 100,000 endpoints. The agentless-based...

ERLANGEN, Germany, Feb. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens has received the German Industry's Innovation Award in the large companies category. The award was won by the Siemens H-Class gas turbine, which holds the world efficiency record at 60.75 percent in combined cycle duty. The award in recognition of the outstanding innovation was presented in Frankfurt on Saturday by Wirtschaftsclub Rhein-Main at a gala event held in the Palais Thurn und Taxis. The award, which is listed as the...

BERLIN, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- caprotec bioanalytics GmbH announced today the issuance of patents in the US, Japan, Canada, Australia and Israel related to methods and composition of matter of its proprietary Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry (CCMS) technology. Issued US Patent US 7,858,560 titled "Capture Compounds, Collections thereof and Methods for Analyzing the Proteome and Complex Compositions" broadly covers basic bioanalytical principles and applications of the...

BERLIN and HAMBURG, Germany, February 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Online gaming revenue increased 15 percent in one year, reaching 154 million euro for the first half of 2011, according to the German Trade Association of Interactive Entertainment Software (BIU). The sale of virtual goods in online games represents the largest and fastest growing source of revenue in German gaming. At this year's Casual Connect Europe in Hamburg from February 7-9, Germany Trade & Invest will...

MANILA, Philippines, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- True Green Energy Group announced today that it was going to dual list its public company in Berlin because the Frankfurt exchange has had so many problems and has been undergoing a lot of changes due to the huge influx of companies from stalled American markets who were seeking listings on Frankfurt. Ronald Flynn, chairman and founder of True Green Energy Group, said, "After many meetings with our board of directors, we...

School teams from Europe and America have been commanding robots competing in the Spheres ZeroRobotics tournament in space. The arena: 400 km above Earth on the International Space Station. Student teams could send a single piece of instruction software to control the small robotic ‘Spheres’. The goal of the tournament was to earn points through masterful operation via guidance and navigation control algorithms as well as choosing the best tactics to win the game. This year’s...

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...