Latest News

Inhärente und adaptive Differenzierungsprozesse / SFB 590

Ziel des Programms ist die Aufklärung komplexer, zellinhärenter und adaptiver Differenzierungsvorgänge, d.h. solcher Prozesse, deren Ablauf von der Integration vielfältiger Komponenten abhängt. Dabei wird die Funktion einzelner Komponenten, vor allem aber ihre zeitliche und räumliche Regulation und ihre Wechselwirkung mit anderen Faktoren untersucht. Die Analyse inhärenter Mechanismen erfolgt in unterschiedlichem zellulären Kontext – in der Einzelzelle, im Zell- oder im Gewebeverband. Differenzierungsleistu

Signalmechanismen in Embryogenese und Organogenese / SFB 592

Es werden grundlegende Mechanismen erforscht, die an der embryonalen Musterbildung wie auch der Differenzierung und Morphogenese von Organen beteiligt sind. Dabei werden sowohl Tier- als auch Pflanzensysteme parallel untersucht, da grundlegende Aspekte der Signalmechanismen, wie etwa Bildung von Signalquellen, Kontrolle der Signalreichweite und Signaltransduktionmechanismen vielen Systemen gemeinsam sind. Im Projektbereich A “Signalmechanismen” wird die Bildung von Signalmolekülen, das Entstehen lokaler Que

Molekulare Maschinen in Proteinfaltung und Proteintransport / SFB 594

Molekulare Maschinen führen komplexe, vielschrittige Operationen auf molekularer Ebene durch. Sie bauen dabei noch molekulare Substrate auf, degradieren sie oder gestalten sie in mannigfaltiger Weise um. Sie sind ihrerseits von komplexem Aufbau, also aus zahlreichen Untereinheiten zusammengesetzt. Das Ziel des Sonderforschungsbereichs liegt in der Aufklärung der grundlegenden Strukturen und Mechanismen molekularer Maschinen, die Proteine in ihrem Faltungszustand beeinflussen und damit weitere Reaktionen ste

Molekulare Mechanismen der Neurodegeneration / SFB 596

13 Arbeitsgruppen erforschen die molekularen und zellulären Ursachen neurodegenerativer Erkrankungen. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeiten stehen Alzheimer, Parkinson, Huntington und Prionenerkrankung. Beteiligt sind Institute an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München sowie der Max-Planck-Institute für Biochemie (Martinsried) und Psychiatrie (München). Die molekularen Ursachen der Gehirnerkrankungen werden an Zellkultursystemen sowie an transgenen Tiermodellen (Maus, Caenorhabditis elegans, Zebrafisch) unters

’Biofumigants’ to help beat the wilt

Poor farmers in developing countries could soon be using a range of ’biofumigant’ plants to help increase tropical vegetable yields.

CSIRO is part of a research team from Australia and the Philippines which has found that brassica species such as radish, mustard or broccoli can be used to help reduce yield losses from Bacterial Wilt – the major pathogen of vegetables in tropical farming.

“Brassicas contain compounds that suppress pests and pathogens, principally isothiocyanates (ITC

Nearly 5 million deaths worldwide caused by smoking

The latest epidemiological assessment for the global effect of smoking on deaths worldwide is detailed in this week’s issue of THE LANCET. Smoking-related deaths for the year 2000 were as high in developing countries than in industrialised areas of the world, with 84% of such deaths in developing countries being among male smokers.

To strengthen the scientific evidence for national and global tobacco control efforts, a consistent method is needed to estimate the health effects of smoking acr

Page
1 17,259 17,260 17,261 17,262 17,263 17,960

Physics and Astronomy

NASA to launch innovative solar coronagraph to Space Station

NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is ready to launch to the International Space Station to reveal new details about the solar wind including its origin and its evolution. Launching in…

Faster space communication with record-sensitive receiver

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to…

USTC discovers polarity competition mechanisms

… in thunderstorm cloud-top corona discharges. A team of researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), led by Professors LEI Jiuhou, ZHU Baoyou, and Associate Professor…

Life Sciences and Chemistry

A navigation system for microswimmers

By applying an electric field, the movement of microswimmers can be manipulated. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS), the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad…

Method to map immune cell connections, predicting patient survival in cancer

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory have developed a new combination of imaging and computational methods to study connections between immune cells in breast cancer and melanoma. A growing cancer is…

Towards understanding inflammation in depression

Roughly one third of patients with depressive symptoms have elevated levels of inflammation. Inflammation is however often only measured using very broad and unspecific markers. To better understand the connection…

Materials Sciences

Rain Protection for Rotor Blades

Small drops, big impact: Over time, rain can damage the surfaces of rotor blades. This reduces the efficiency and profitability of wind turbines, especially at sea. Researchers from institutions of…

The world’s first non-electric touchpad

…takes sensor technology to extreme conditions. Researchers at Tampere University have developed the world’s first soft touchpad that can sense the force, area and location of contact without electricity.  The…

Novel 2D electro-polaritonic platform for future miniaturized spectrometers

Polaritons are coupled excitations of electromagnetic waves with either charged particles or vibrations in the atomic lattice of a given material. They are widely used in nanophotonics because of their…

Information Technology

Breakthrough in magnetism that could transform quantum computing and superconductors

Researchers discover new magnetic and electronic properties in kagome magnet thin films. A discovery by Rice University physicists and collaborators is unlocking a new understanding of magnetism and electronic interactions…

How 6G Can Make Medical Prevention More Efficient

– Wireless Aggregation of Health Data. Health data, distributed across various applications, could be unified in a digital medical twin: This is how doctors could improve patient care with the…

Large-scale programmable logic array achieves complex computations

Large-scale optical programmable logic array can execute complex models like Conway’s Game of Life, marking a significant advancement in optical computing. Researchers have long sought to harness the power of…