The ToxChip, a DNA microarray chip, allows the monitoring of the expression levels of thousands of different genes at a time, thereby condensing months of painstaking laboratory tasks into a day's work. For toxicology researchers in particular, this tool is important because it promises a more effective way to identify environmental hazards and their effects on DNA. The ToxChip, developed by NI...

Nathalie Veyrat1, Christelle Aurélie Maud Robert2, Ted Christiaan Johannes Turlings1 & Matthias 3 Erb2,* 4 1 Laboratory for Fundamental and Applied Research in Chemical Ecology, University of Neuchâtel, Rue 5 Emile-Argand 11, 2009 Neuchatel, Switzerland 6 2 Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergain 21, 3013 Bern, Switzerland 7 *Correspondence author: Email: matthias.erb@ips....

According to their self-representations, western European guilds in the early modern period (1500–1800) were archetypal patriarchal institutions. In cities and towns where they existed, the vast majority of guilds restricted their membership to men. Corporate statutes not only prohibited women from becoming mistresses, they also prevented them from entering apprenticeship or even taking employm...

Submitted for the MAR08 Meeting of The American Physical Society Strong tunable coupling between a charge qubit and a phase qubit1 AURELIEN FAY, EMILE HOSKINSON, FLORENT LECOCQ, LAURENT LEVY, Institut Neel, CNRS-UJF, FRANK HEKKING, LPMMC, CNRSUJF, WIEBKE GUICHARD, OLIVIER BUISSON, Institut Neel, CNRS-UJF — We have studied the quantum dynamics of a superconducting circuit based on a dc-SQUID cou...