Schisandra – five flavours, versatile effects
It is small, red and one of the most important medicinal plants of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): the Schisandra berry. The so-called fruit of the five flavors (Chinese: Wu Wei Zi) tastes sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty at the same time. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, each flavor has its own special healing power. The […]
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Element of the Month August: Sodium
Our element of the month for August is sodium. Everyone knows it and comes into contact with it every day. Without sodium, there would be no life. Conduction between the nerve cells would not work. Under normal conditions, sodium is a waxy, silvery, highly reactive metal. Sodium was discovered in 1807 by Humphry Davy after […]
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Element of the Month July: Cobalt
Did you know that cobalt was the first metal to be discovered? Cobalt (from Latin cobaltum – “kobold”) is a chemical element with the symbol Co and atomic number 27. The element was discovered and first depicted in 1735 by the Swedish chemist Georg Brandt. As early as the 15th century, miners in the Erzgebirge […]
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Metal soaps – versatile use in a wide range of industries
Metal soaps are salts of fatty acids. Most commonly used is stearic acid in combination with different metals such as calcium, zinc, magnesium or lead – but with the exclusion of sodium and potassium salts. The fatty acid salts of the sodium and potassium salts are water-soluble and are called soaps. Metal soaps are poorly […]
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GA2023 Congress Dublin
We look forward to meeting you at the GA2023 Congress, July 2-5 at Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Sandra Miklos will be on site. You are welcome to make an appointment for a personal meeting here.
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ARABLAB LIVE 2023
We look forward to meeting you at ARABLAB from 19 to 21 September 2023 in Dubai. Michael Schaeffler will be on site. Feel free to attend his lecture on rapamycin on September 20 at 1:00 p.m. at the Labworx Theatre. You are welcome to make an appointment for a personal meeting here. Get more information […]
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mTOR inhibitor rapamycin (sirolimus) as a treatment option for tuberous sclerosis
Tuberous sclerosis is a very complex, incurable genetic disease. Within Germany, around 8,000 people are affected, and one to two million people worldwide. Tuberous sclerosis affects almost all organs. It leads, for example, to benign tumors or malformations in the brain. In addition, renal angiomyolipomas often form. These are also benign tumors of the kidney […]
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Element of the Month June: Aluminum
Aluminum (Al) is known as a silver-white, ductile and relatively soft metal. It is involved with 8.1% in the structure of the earth’s crust and is therefore – before iron – the third most common element. The metal always occurs in a bound form. In the mid-18th century, a German chemist discovered alumina as a […]
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Sugars: from food industry to drug manufacturing
When it comes to sugar, people first think of its function as an energy supplier and sweetener in food or, in a negative context, of the common disease diabetes mellitus. But sugar is more than an energy supplier and nobody can live without it. Most probably only a minority is thinking of a group of […]
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Element of the Month May: Nickel
Our Element of the Month cannot be destroyed or created. It is known by the symbol Ni and atomic number 28: we are talking about nickel. Nickel is found in many everyday objects. For example, it is used as an active material in lithium-ion batteries and can therefore be found in smartphones and electric vehicles. […]
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Cfm Oskar Tropitzsch Member of the BAVARIAN CHIPS ALLIANCE
Bavaria is one of the leading locations for the semiconductor and microelectronics industry in Europe. The corona pandemic or the war in Ukraine have shown how important it is to make Bavaria and Germany more independent when it comes to chip supply chains. The delivery bottlenecks in this area were and are a clear warning […]
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BIO International Convention, Boston
We look forward to meeting you at the BIO International Convention in Boston, June 5-8. Michael Schaeffler will be on site. Click here to make an appointment.
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