Research Vessel HEINCKE Operated by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute

Alfred Wegener and continental drift

Ice Algae-Produced Carbon Is Critical for Overwintering of Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba

1 Polar Biological Oceanography, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, Centre for Natural History (CeNak), Zoological Museum, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Wageningen Marine Research, Den Helder, Netherlands, 4 Ecological Chemistry, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, C...

The Scripps Research Institute

Lansbury and Caughey state in their Primer on prion proteins [1] “Mice lacking the PrP gene, first produced by Charles Weissmann and colleagues, are viable, but have altered neuronal function and develop neurological abnormalities later in life.” This statement is misleading. The PrP-knockout mice produced in our laboratory [2] do not show neurological abnormalities at any time and we have neve...

The Scripps Research Institute.

Dr. Sacks' goal is'to humanize medicine; to recognize ihe link between body and soul. In 1970 he published his first book, Migraine, in which he explored the neuropsychiatric omponents of migraine headaches. While completing the book he went to work in a New York hospital where he encountered a group of patients who were to have a profound effect on his life's work. Survivors of the epidemic of...

Correlation between equatorial Kelvin waves and the occurrence of extremely thin ice clouds at the tropical tropopause

1 German Meteorological Service, Richard-Aßmann-Observatory, Lindenberg, Germany 2 IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany 3 Hokkaido University, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Japan 4 Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands 5 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany 6 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerha...