Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids in an organism by introducing, into the organism, nucleic acids which encode polypeptides with ?5-elongase activity. Advantageously, these nucleic acids can be expressed in the organism together with further nucleic acids which encode polypeptides of the biosynthesis of the fatty acid or lipid metabolism. Especially advantageous are nucleic acids which encode ?6-desaturases, ?5-desaturases, ?4-desaturases and/or ?6-elongases. These desaturases and elongases are advantageously derived from Thalassiosira, Euglena or Ostreococcus. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the production of oils and/or triacylglycerides with an elevated content of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, and oils and/or triacylglycerides thus obtained.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel protease variants exhibiting improved stability and or improved wash performance in liquid detergent. The variants of the invention are suitable for use in e.g. cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions. The present invention also relates to isolated DNA sequences encoding the variants, expression vectors, host cells, and methods for producing and using the variants of the invention.

Abstract: A data management system should relieve the user of data management tasks as much as possible and nevertheless be flexible with respect to user-individual forms of the user data.This aim is achieved according to the invention by a generic database (GDB) having a central control system (CU) and generic data modules (GM), the generic data modules already containing all the functionality to carry out access control and data maintenance in cooperation with the central control system, and the generic data modules nevertheless allowing a user-individual form of the user data.