A team from the University of Bonn and the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center (FZB) has discovered a previously unknown mechanism of action for a synthetic peptide that mitigates excessive ...

Bacteria have spent decades evolving resistance to virtually every antibiotic we have thrown at them. To stay ahead, new drugs must hit targets that existing antibiotics have never touched. A research ...

Kühne Logistics University (KLU), headquartered in Hamburg’s HafenCity, has launched KLU SPARK, a new innovation and startup center. The team’s approach: Those who get involved here are shaping the ...

The planned reform of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy could have far more serious consequences for Saxony and other eastern German agricultural regions than assumed. A study by ...

An international team led by the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim has presented the largest genome-wide association study on borderline personality disorder to date. Data from around 13, ...

This year, two winners of the prestigious Humboldt Research Award are conducting research at the Darmstadt site: Professor Yong-Zhong Qian (University of Minnesota, USA) was already on site, and Dr.

In August, several thousand AI experts will gather in Bremen for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). The big questions surrounding AI will be brought to the city ...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has extended its funding for FAIRmat, the consortium of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) based at HU. In this phase, FAIRmat is placing greater ...

Unlike traditional optical components, which typically rely on their shape and thickness, metasurfaces manipulate light using carefully designed nanostructures patterned on a flat surface. “Active ...

More than a quarter of the world's population is affected by helminth infections, which can profoundly alter the immune system. In a preclinical study, researchers found that mRNA- and protein-based ...

Against the backdrop of increasing demands for resource-efficient waste recovery and the goal of energy self-sufficiency for municipal wastewater treatment plants, there is a growing need for ...

Kill switch” for scavenger cells Dr. Charlotte Schwenner Presse und Kommunikation Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung. Researchers from Würzburg and ...