Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the detection and characterisation of primary tumours and separate areas of primary tumours, respectively. Clusters of tumour cells, extracted from sample material, are isolated and concentrated, followed by an analysis of genetic changes in these isolated cell clusters.

Abstract: A continuous process for preparing pigmented thermoplastic molding compositions in an extruder, comprises I) in a first zone A) metering in from 10 to 99.999% by weight of a thermoplastic polymer into an extruder and II) in a subsequent zone at temperatures below the respective glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic A) B) adding from 0.001 to 60% by weight of a colorant and then heating the thermoplastic/colorant mixture in the subsequent zones, homogenizing the polymer melt and extruding the resultant mixture.

Abstract: Thermoplastic molding materials contain, as essential components,(A) 5-95% by weight of a polyamide;(B) 5-95% by weight of a modified polyphenylene ether, prepared from(b.sub.1) 4.95-99.9% by weight of a polyphenylene ether,(b.sub.2) 0-90% by weight of a vinylaromatic polymer,(b.sub.3) 0.05-10% by weight of one or more compounds from the group consisting of(b.sub.31) an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated dicarbonyl compound,(b.sub.32) a monomer containing amide groups and a polymerizable double bond and(b.sub.33) a monomer containing lactam groups and a polymerizable double bond,(b.sub.4) 0-80% by weight of further graft-active monomers and(b.sub.5) 0.01-0.09% by weight of a free radical initiator,(C) 0-90% by weight of an unmodified polyphenylene ether,(D) 0-45% by weight of a vinylaromatic polymer and(E) 0-40% by weight of a rubber impact modifier.

Abstract: Reinforced thermoplastic molding materials containing, as essential components,(A) from 40 to 94 parts by weight of a polymer component of(a.sub.1) from 10 to 90% by weight of polyphenylene ether and(a.sub.2) from 10 to 90% by weight, based in each case on A, of a styrene polymer toughened with an acrylate rubber or with an unhydrogenated or hydrogenated polymer of a conjugated diene,(B) from 1 to 20 parts by weight of a copolymer of(b.sub.1) from 70 to 99.9% by weight of a monomer from the group consisting of styrene, .alpha.-methylstyrene and styrene alkylated in the nucleus or a mixture of these monomers,(b.sub.2) from 0.1 to 30% by weight of one or more compounds from the group consisting of tert-butyl acrylate and tert-butyl methacrylate, or one or more compounds from the group of compounds of the general formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is hydrogen or methyl and R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.

Abstract: A thermoplastic material containing, based in each case on the molding material comprising A and B,A from 30 to 80% be weight of one or more polycarbonates andB from 70 to 20% by weight of a blend of two different components B.sub.1 and B.sub.2, each of which consists of one or more graft copolymers b.sub.11 and b.sub.21 and each of which consists of one or more copolymers (hard matrix) b.sub.12 and b.sub.22, respectively, the graft copolymer b.sub.11 being prepared in emulsion and the graft copolymer b.sub.21 being prepared by another method.

Abstract: Polyphenylene ethers are prepared from monohydric phenols, which possess alkyl substituents in the two ortho-positions and, if desired, in the meta-position, but not in the para-position, by an oxidative coupling reaction with oxygen at from 15.degree. to 50.degree. C. and under from 1 to 10 bar in the presence of a catalyst complex, of a solvent and, if required, of an activator, by a method in which the conversion of the phenols is carried out in two more reaction zones, in which some or all of the solvent, the catalyst complex and the phenols and, where relevant, the activator is initially taken and is circulated by means of a conveying unit, and about 60-100% of the stoichiometric amount of oxygen required for the oxidative coupling is introduced into the first reaction zone and from 0 to about 40% of the said stoichiometric amount is introduced into the second reaction zone.