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Issue 3/2007

Release date: 03/05/2007

Editorial

A Glimpse of Paradise?

J. van Empel

page 01

Events

Three Meetings New to Edinburgh

page 06

2nd Annual Stem Cell Conference in London

page 07

Heading to Monaco in March

page 07

Interview

Growing on Right Choices

J. Aldag, Evotec, Germany

page 010

Europe

Protein-protein Interactions as Target for New Therapeutic Molecules

EU-project thera-cAMP

Dr. E. Klußmann, Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin, Germany

page 018

Events

Nano2Life in Saarbrücken

page 020

Cell Biology

Quality Control of Gene Expression

Recognition of Nonsense mRNAs Prevents Synthesis of Truncated Proteins

A. Eberle et al., University of Bern, Switzerland

page 021

A Novel Function of Ferritin

Apoptosis Induction in Primary Hepatocytes

Mag. I. Ohlenschläger et al., University of Salzburg, Austria

page 024

Cell Culture

Neither Ivory Tower Nor Tower of Babel

Interdisciplinary Cell Cultivation

Dipl.-Ing. V. Goralczyk et al., Technical University Berlin, Germany

page 026

Microbiology

Chocolate Electricity

Using Fuel Cells to Convert Biologically Evolved Hydrogen

Dr. D. Penfold, University of Birmingham, UK

page 032

Events

Annual Conference of the VAAM

page 034

Tissue Culture & Engineering

Technical Aspects in Tissue Engineering

Engineering of Three-dimensional Cartilage-Carrier-Constructs

PD Dr.-Ing. R. Pörtner et al., TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

page 035

Molecular Diagnostics

Clinical Microbiology Diagnostics

Application of Real-time PCR

Dr. C. Wang, Prof. Dr. B. Kaltenboeck, Auburn University, USA

page 038

Events

Biological Production Conference

page 043

Spectroscopy

MALDI TOF-MS and the Plasma Proteome

Dr. G.L. Hortin, M.D., PhD.; Dr. S.K. Drake, PhD, National Institutes of Health, USA

page 044

Cover Story

Fully Automated Nucleic Acid and Protein Purification

Application of Spin-column Technologies

Dr. C. Schade et al, Qiagen, Germany

page 046