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Gilsbar, a Covington based insurance services firm, congratulates Judy Cannella Schott on her promotion to Vice-President. Covington, LA (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 Gilsbar, a Covington based insurance services firm, congratulates Judy Cannella Schott on her promotion to Vice-President. Ms. Schott oversees the property and casualty division as well as the health and life client services. She will be based in the Covington, LA office. Since joining Gilsbar in 1995, Ms. Schott has served in a...

Plasma protein fetuin-B regulates hardening of the zona pellucida and thus ensures the fertilization capacity of the ovum Scientists in Mainz and Aachen have discovered a new mechanism that controls egg cell fertility and that might have future therapeutic potential. It was revealed by Professor Dr. Walter Stöcker of the Institute of Zoology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) that the blood protein fetuin-B plays an important and previously unknown role in the fertilization of...

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the DLR develop measures to prevent health problems associated with biogenic amines in wine Biogenic amines may be one of the factors responsible for symptoms such as headaches, gastro-intestinal disorders, shortness of breath, fall in blood pressure, and even unconsciousness and cardiac arrhythmia in severe cases. Histamine, one of the best known members of this group, can cause serious physical...

Increase in the prevalence of overweight among German children calculated precisely for the first time Scientists working with Professor Dr. Dr. Perikles Simon, head of the Sports Medicine Division of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany, suggest in the light of recent analyses that German children gain weight soon after entering elementary school. From birth up to the age of five years, today's children's weight development is nearly identical to those from twenty years...

GRENOBLE, France, August 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegro DVT is proud to communicate on deployment of a significant multiscreen delivery infrastructure at ZDF, public-service German television broadcaster. This system is based on AL1000 and AL2000 multiscreen encoders and transcoders integrated by international systems integrator Divitel, and is currently used to cover the Olympic Games in HLS and Flash formats for mobile and web delivery. 18 Allegro DVT...

MAINZ, Germany and NEW YORK, July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Increasing transparency and quality of immune response measurements The Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) Immunoguiding Program (CIP) and the Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC) of the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) today announced the publication of a letter in Immunity discussing the results of an unique vetting process that involved multiple international groups and individuals and has...

MAINZ, Germany and BOSTON, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- High-technology company and specialty glass producer SCHOTT today announced the successful market entry of Xensation(TM) Cover glass, the high-quality, ultra-strong alumino-silicate glass that offers outstanding resistance to breakage and scratches, making it ideal for touch screen devices such as smartphones, tablets and gaming gadgets. SCHOTT will be showcasing Xensation(TM) Cover glass at the Society for Information...

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SCHOTT North America, Inc. will meet with Congressional leaders today to discuss the importance of the optics industry to the United States, and how Congress can support the industry's critical, high technology manufacturing, its growth and spur job creation. These visits are part of the involvement of SCHOTT, for the second year in a row, with the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) during the association's annual...

MAINZ, Germany, January 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institute of Translational Oncology (TRON) together with BioNTech AG today announced the publication of a joint paper in the international journal Cancer Research that describes a new path for individually tailored cancer therapy. An interdisciplinary team of genome scientists and immunologists led by the cancer researcher Prof. Ugur Sahin for the first time demonstrated that whole cancer genome information could be used to...

MITTERTEICH, Germany, April 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SCHOTT-Rohrglas GmbH launched an Internet-based idea contest encouraging participants to submit new design ideas using non-round glass tubing. A video explaining the contest is available on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-3phdaSyFE or search for "SCHOTT Contest" on YouTube. Whether square, rectangular, 5-sided or more, glass tubing from SCHOTT-Rohrglas in Mitterteich, Germany, doesn't have to be round. This opens up a world...