News Archive
MBI research results refine our understanding of strong-field processes
Laser-driven electron recollision remembers molecular orbital structure:
Scientists from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) in Berlin combined state-of-the-art experiments and numerical simulations to test a fundamental assumption underlying…
Adlershof Journal May/June 2018
Biotech Inside: Algae Slicks and Sugar-Based Vaccines:
Summiteer & laser researcher: Karsten König can look deep inside the human skin // Long-suffering required: How start-ups master the dry spell up to medical device approval // Tracing immune diseases: Epigenetic…
The Dual System of Viewing the World: What happened to public discourse?
Essay by Prof. Dr. Holger Rust, economic sociologist, pragmatist and publicist:
Amazing prospects, daring appearances, flush with optimism. We will defeat cancer. The blind shall see. Hip arthrosis will soon be a topic of retrograde science fiction. Surely, there will be things that the…
Manager of the inter-company health promotion network in Adlershof
In conversation with Ralf Blank:
He’s no doctor, nor an ascetic, but his mission is to live a healthy life and help others do the same. This is one of many reasons why Ralf Blank is an ideal fit for running a project like the Health Network…
The Laser Researcher
Karsten König can look deep inside the human skin:
Moving from Saarbrücken to Adlershof is a great leap for a small company. In Karsten König’s case, the reason is strikingly simple: “I just wanted to go home,” he says about his reasons. König’s company Jenlab GmbH…
Algae slicks and sugar-based vaccines: Biotech in Adlershof
Germany is currently experiencing a biotechnology boom. The Science and Technology Adlershof boasts seventy biotechnology companies with over 800 employees. Their skillsets range from fundamental research to…
Kick the tires and light the fires
How Adlershof-based companies deal with the dry spells before regulatory approval for new medicine:
Obtaining approval for new products in medical technology can drag on. This can be life-threatening for business founders. How do Adlershof-based companies deal with these dry spells? Germs in hospital are becoming a…
Search Engines for Personalised Cancer Medicine
HU computer scientists want to facilitate decision-making of medical professionals by improved data analysis:
When a patient is diagnosed with a malignant tumour, the question is what the appropriate treatment is: operation or therapy? Which one is better? Ulf Leser, a professor for knowledge management in bioinformatics at…
Robust Immune Diagnostics
The young company Epimune GmbH is detecting immune diseases with epigenetic methods:
Epimune GmbH is a young Adlershof-based company. Yet, its developments in immune diagnostics are founded on established procedures. The start-up has its sights on inherited and acquired immune disorders and leukaemia.…
The Analytical Sciences Keep on Dancing
The “Make & Measure Project” is continuing the successful work of SALSA, the Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof:
The big party might be over, but as Janina Kneipp sees it, SALSA will keep on dancing. She is one of the speakers of SALSA, alongside Ulrich Panne, and a professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. SALSA is an…
Highly insightful genes
Start-up Genetek Biopharma is developing sets for DNA testing:
Doctors require suitable aids and appliances to detect hereditary diseases and genetic defects. The international start-up Genetek Biopharma is striving to fill that gap with its DNA testing sets. Moreover, the…
Table 4.0
System 180 GmbH develops inspiring office environments:
Agile work cultures in companies are key to master the diverse challenges of the digital age. Even large corporations are realising this. They are opening innovation labs, factories and hubs that foster creativity…
Interesting insights regarding ultraviolet LEDs at ICULTA-2018
Heavy rush at the conference which was organized by ‚Advanced UV for Life‘ and ‚International Ultraviolet Association‘:
The conference’s organizers expected 150 registrations – finally more than 260 participants from 23 countries took part in the ICULTA-2018 – International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications 2018 in…
HI-SCORE international research school: Kick Off Meeting in Berlin
The international research school on solar energy promotes exchange between Germany and Israel and excellent conditions for PhD students:
With a two day kick off meeting at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) the Helmholtz International Research School HI-SCORE on solar energy research has started. To accomplish this, HZB is collaborating with the Weizmann…
Fertilisers of the Future
The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) is developing processes for phosphorus recycling from sewage sludge:
(Almost) nothing works without phosphorus: all living creatures need this nutrient and must absorb it from their food. Although phosphorus is a valuable raw material and its supply is limited, large amounts of it are…
Calls for rapid planning of BESSY III
Evaluation by international panel of experts supports HZB:
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has received an evaluation of “excellent” in a review of science programmes undertaken at all Helmholtz Research Centres. This provides the foundation for future financing of HZB.…
Writing and deleting magnets with lasers
Scientists at BESSY II are encountering a completely new phenomenon:
Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) together with colleagues from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, USA have found a way to write and…
Bacteria with a magnetism sense
Experiments at BESSY II reveal how the inner compass is constructed:
Bacteria exist in many shapes and with very different talents. Magnetotactic bacteria can even sense the earth’s magnetic field by making use of magnetic nanoparticles in their interior that act as an internal…
Freeing electrons to better trap them
For the first time, researchers from UNIGE and MBI in Berlin have placed an electron in a dual state - neither freed nor bound:
Atoms are composed of electrons moving around a central nucleus they are bound to. The electrons can also be torn away, overcoming the confining force of their nucleus, using the powerful electric field of a laser.…
From insulator to conductor in a flash
MBI scientists gain deep insights into the materials of the future using ultrashort laser pulses:
Over the past decades, computers have become faster and faster and hard disks and storage chips have reached enormous capacities. But this trend cannot continue forever: we are already running up against physical…