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German biogas companies are world leaders in their field. Now they are taking the energy revolution abroad – including to Canada. This past autumn, a number of companies set out to explore the country, where such terms as bioenergy and biorefineries are beginning to enter daily life.

Retroviral drugs could stop the spread of the HIV infection. Science has compiled a list of the most important research results from 2011. The journal Nature Methods arrived at 'Genome Editing' as the development of the year. And German labs are also involved in a range of other notable discoveries.

Five top researchers in the life sciences are among the winners of the 2012 Leibniz Prize. A neurophysiologist and a systems biologist from Berlin, a biochemist in Martinsried, and two immunologists from Bonn will share the prize, worth a total of 2.5 million euros.

Researchers in Bonn have tracked down the causes of a rare movement disorder. In their work they have used skin cells that have been reprogrammed into nerve cells – so called induced pluripotent stem cells.

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