ZEISS Invests €30 Million in Innovation Hub at KIT

ZEISS and KIT make plans for shared innovation building KIT carve-outs offer long-term prospects at site More modern growth environment for successful Karlsruhe-based company Nanoscribe GmbH ZEISS and KIT promote strategic partnership OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 2017-09-25. ZEISS plans to build a new shared innovation hub on the north campus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Construction... Read more

Sartorius Campus expands: Official opening of the new manufacturing facility for laboratory instruments

New building covering approx. 25,000 square meters The largest single investment of Sartorius Campus totaling around 42 million euros Building protected by special construction against vibration Goettingen, Germany, September 13, 2017 – With its new facility for the manufacture of laboratory instruments, Sartorius provides high-quality production conditions and an advanced, efficient work environment. The biopharmaceutical... Read more

Park Systems, World Leader Manufacturer of Atomic Force Microscopes Announces Opening of European Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Park Systems, world-leader in atomic force microscopy (AFM) recently announced the opening of their European Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany and appointment of Ludger Weisser as General Manager. Park Systems is a publicly traded company listed on KOSDAQ since 2015 where they received “AA” from two separate rating agencies... Read more

Do you know what phloem and the Münch hypothesis are about?

Long distance transport in plants occurs in sieve tubes of the phloem. The pressure flow hypothesis introduced by Ernst Münch in 1930 describes a mechanism of osmotically generated pressure differentials that are supposed to drive the movement of sugars and other solutes in the phloem, but this hypothesis has long faced major challenges. The key... Read more