Back pain is now the most widespread disease of approximately 60% of 30-60 years suffering in Germany. The main cause of this pain is poor posture and the fact that patients do not perceive they have poor posture before feeling the effects.

The device developed, hardly bigger than a USB drive, must be glued to the skin. Inside, a microprocessor constantly compares the position of the user with a defined position as its ideal position after individual settings. If the person stays in an unfavorable position for more than 60 seconds, the device will vibrate to indicate to the user to take a suitable position. The operation and use of the device are very simple. It does not bother the user and is not visible under clothing.

In addition to discipline the user, the camera records the position back in the days and weeks. The person can then obtain the ratio of time spent in a bad position with respect to time spent in a proper position and evaluate improvements. The inventors of the device are already planning changes to their product. By combining a GPS chip in it, the user could know where it is most often poor posture (sitting in the office or eating for example) and could take steps to correct his bad habits.

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The most common consequence of a crash or injury to the nerves of the spinal bone paraplegia [2]. This disease is incurable so far because the cells of the central nervous system (CNS) [3] are unable to renew themselves, unlike the nerves of the peripheral nervous system. Many teams have examined the difference between the neurons of both systems to understand the causes of this inability to regenerate in the CNS. Many factors stunting were found in the environment of the damaged cells. Two key elements are limiting the disruption of the cytoskeleton [4] in damaged cells that prevents their growth and formation of scar tissue that separates the two ends of the spinal cord and prevents their attachment.

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This uses the immuno – marking in real time . The living cells are placed in the presence of a fluorescent antibody solution which will bind to it . But instead of using enough antibodies to bind to the molecules to study , the researchers achieved a mark diluted under the microscope. So the few available antibodies will then bind to molecules to study and make them bright. Then , when they will be extinct , other molecules will already bind to antibodies arriving in the new sample and light up in turn.

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The constraints of the workplace , as well as the obvious technological constraints no lack : space block ” slapper ” limited to the size of a large jar of jam , and available capacity of the order of watts , obvious constraint of weight but also irregularity of the hardness of the probe body (an estimated 1.9 g/cm3 , a high porosity ) and a very low gravity allowing only low kickback when the drums. Engineers and scientists have again CBK show their know -how . They developed a tool : a large cylindrical capacitor accumulates the low energy available for release to the chosen frequency striker block , which is located in the center of the capacitor.

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A method for achieving these objectives is the 3D system integration. It must mean the distribution of electronic components and their interactions in a 2D universe, rather than on silicon plates dimensional example, but in 3D. In this context, the new center-Fraunhofer IZM ASSID (All Silicon System Integration Dresden) [1] has just been inaugurated in Dresden (Saxony). New technology for 3D system integration and marketing must be developed within it.

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At the heart of the mountains, watersheds small, steep and often barren, channel suddenly rains to the rivers and streams, causing erosion, so, overflows and floods. The problem is particularly concerned that local actors in charge of risk prevention does not currently have sufficient capacity to anticipate these events and brutal severity. Certainly the hydrometeorological radar C-band or S, with a range of about 120 km, used plain by Meteo-France for measuring real-time rainfall, can anticipate hazardous events such as flash floods. But the screen are the reliefs prevent this radar network, called ARAMIS (Application Radar Infra-Synoptic Meteorology), for the central Alps and Pyrenees. As the network of rain gauges installed on the ground, it does not account for precipitation, they vary greatly from one place to another mountain.

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Bacterial pathogen responsible for human listeriosis, Listeria monocytogenes is particularly known for its ability to enter cells and manipulate different cellular functions for its own benefit in order to evade host defenses. These strategies enable the group to cross the intestinal barrier and other barriers to the body during infection in humans. Researchers from two units of the Institut Pasteur, Unit-Cell Interactions bacteria “led by Pascale Cossart and Unity” Nuclear Organization and Oncogenesis “whose responsibility is Anne Dejean, in collaboration with a team from the University Ghent, Belgium, found that Listeria produces a toxin that destroys SUMOylation. This is a very important cellular machinery that normally enables the cell to add some small protein called SUMO module, whose characteristic is to change the properties of target proteins. But Listeria blocks the addition of these modules, block proving essential for infection to be effective.

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The grants will help build a center for nanotechnology companies and a center application for analyzing ultra-high definition on the website of the University of Wurzburg. Research projects have been selected by the Minister of Science, Research and Art and the Minister of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Bavaria. Both centers are part of improving cooperation and transfer of knowledge between the University of Wurzburg and economic actors in northern Bavaria. The university is particularly interested in its outreach to SMEs who do not have the equipment or personnel necessary to innovate.

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EVE (Evolutionary Virtual Environment), is the name of a new scientific equipment that can experience the future of virtual reality and augmented. Designed by researchers at the Laboratory for Computer Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (LIMSI) of the CNRS, the new immersive and multi sensorimotor virtual and augmented reality is co-financed by the CNRS, Digiteo, the French research park dedicated to science and information technology and communication, and the Ile-de-France. The result of several years of research on the study of systems for immersion and interaction of humans in scenes that combine real and virtual EVE has been presented for the first time the scientific community during EuroVR-EVE-2010, an event during which two research projects (“Immersion multi sensorimotor interactions in collaborative co-located”, and “Tele-presence to supervise multi-sensory remote task”) currently using the LIMSI device have been presented to a hundred European players.

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On the place of Boston, the focus of pharmaceutical companies is cancer research. The French company Sanofi-Aventis, for example, based in Cambridge has decided to change its platform for proteomics research platform dedicated to oncology research. The situation in Boston joined a national priority highlighted by the Obama Administration. Reflecting the government’s willingness to give impetus to this sector, President Barack Obama has appointed to head the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Harold Varmus, former director of NIH (National Institutes of Health) under the President Clinton and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1989.

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