Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany News

A German-based biomedical manufacturer hopes to set up shop in Livermore, setting up the potential for new local jobs and attracting other biotech groups to the area, according to company and city officials.

Main Category: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery Also Included In: Dermatology ; Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 17 Dec 2009 - 0:00 PST Cohera Medical Inc announced the treatment of the first patient in a study of its lead surgical adhesive product, TissuGlu.

In this Dec. 12, 2008 file photo, an employee of a toyshop wraps a Christmas gift in Stuttgart, Germany.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 6:10 a.m. / AP FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 29, 2008 file photo, Roman Polanski is seen in Oberhausen, western Germany.

German authorities say thieves posing as police officers have made off with 1 million in gold and jewelry.

U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration will travel to Khartoum and Juba, Sudan; Stuttgart, Germany; and Brussels, Belgium from December 12-19, 2009.

The Soitec Group has signed an agreement to acquire privately held Concentrix Solar GmbH, a provider of concentrated photovoltaic solar systems.

The run-up to Dec. 25 in Germany is marked not just by a rush of shopping, but also by the nation's many convivial Christmas markets.

Hundreds of European Union employees staged a three-hour strike on Monday in defence of a controversial Brussels decision to award them an inflation-busting 3.7 percent pay rise.

Herxheim is a tiny town in the Southwest of Germany, between Mannheim and Karlsruhe.

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Neurology / Neuroscience ; Genetics Article Date: 11 Dec 2009 - 2:00 PST Brain tumors are the primary cause of cancer mortality in children.

In this July 22, 2009 file photo, a Porsche 911 sportscar is reflected in the wheel cap of a Volkswagen Beetle from 1950 at the Porsche museum in Stuttgart, Germany.

It took a little time for Antje Duvekot to get her musical career under way, but over the past couple of years she's become one of the busiest and most lauded performers on the folk music scene.

A prominent Brenham educator who died Sunday is being remembered. Dr. Bobbie Marie Dietrich, who was eighty-two, and the wife of Dr.

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany and the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, UK discovered that if a specific gene located on a non-sex chromosome is turned off, cells in the ovaries of adult female mice turn into cells typically found in testes.

German labor union IG Metall believes 3,000 jobs are at risk once the largest Mercedes-Benz plant loses production of the C-Class when the next generation of mid-size luxury cars roll off assembly lines in 2014.

Maybach's happily tying itself to the reckless decadence ahead of the next great depression by commissioning photographer David LaChapelle to create some really messed-up NSFW Maybach Zeppelin photos.

The natural compound xanthohumol blocks the effects of the male hormone testosterone, therefore aiding in the prevention of prostate cancer.

GRENOBLE & VALENCE, France -- -- Tronics Microsystems, a manufacturer of integrated custom MEMS components, and Thales , a leading international electronics and systems group, today announced that they have signed a strategic supply agreement within the field of navigation systems.

The German government says it will reform its custody laws after the European Court of Human Rights said a German man had suffered discrimination.