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AMRI has announced that it has completed construction of a new facility for chemical R & D in Budapest (Hungary). The completion and transfer to the 3,000 square feet of laboratory and administrative space represents an important milestone in the business plan initiated in 2008 to transform its central European business services discovery of higher value through the consolidation of several locations equipment and operating costs.

In addition to significant improvements in operational efficiencies and improved technology transfer, the new site provides capacity for the planned expansion of the synthetic chemistry, which currently is expected to double over the next five years.

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the MPI-EVA 454 Life Sciences Corporation announced at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and simultaneously at a press , which have completed the first draft of the Neanderthal genome.

The project was made possible thanks to funding from the Max Planck Society, is headed by Prof. Svante Pääbo, director of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics of the MPI-EVA. Pääbo and his colleagues have sequenced more than 1 billion pieces of DNA extracted from Neanderthal fossil from Croatia, using new methods developed for this project. The sequence of the Neanderthal genome will clarify the evolutionary relationships between humans and Neanderthals as well as help in identifying the genetic changes that enabled modern humans to leave Africa and spread around the world about 100,000 years ago.

The ion exchange system came into use in a start towards softening or softness in hard water. To achieve this objective, natural zeolites were used. Zeolites have the ability to change the cations (both calcium and magnesium), which are those that cause water hardness. After using the zeolites for the softening process, they are regenerated with a solution based on sodium chloride.

With the advance of science and the use of new technologies, processes were transformed. Today for example, synthetic resins are used for deonizar water. A widely used system is the equipment exchange "mixed bed". Through this system, different types of resin mixed with compressed air act together, connected in series.