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Therapeutically effective genetic material can be transduced into target cells with the aid of viruses. A study of the University of Bonn has investigated how the efficiency of this gene transfer can be increased ...

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Only six months after its commissioning, Berlin's new 7-tesla magnetic resonance imaging scanner (7T MRI) has provided its first heart images. The difficulties in connection with heart beat, breathing and large blood flows make heart imaging ...

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An era is drawing to a close in the field of medical physics at PTB: after 14 years of diligent operation, PTB's first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, a whole-body system of the type "Bruker Medspec 30/100" has been decommissioned. It is with this machine ...

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After five years of preparation, the time had finally come on 21 January 2009: in a ceremonial act, Federal Minister of Education Prof. Annette Schavan symbolically cut the ribbon and thus inaugurated the Berlin Ultrahigh-Field Facility. Located on the campus of the Max Delbrück Center (MDC) ...

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Dynamic force signals are measured by highly dynamic force transducers. The dynamics of the measurements, however, is always determined by the measuring chain consisting of the force introduction and the force transducer. The force introduction depends ...

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