Metabolites are consumed by enzymes to produce other vital molecules as well as to control metabolite levels. But how do cells avoid consuming too much? Researchers from the MPI of Biochemistry, with ...
At LIKAT in Rostock, chemists are pursuing this approach. They have succeeded in selectively converting polyethylene—the main component of all plastic waste—into dicarboxylic acids, which can serve as ...
Drugs used to treat obesity may also help protect the brain. In a review published in Science, researchers outline how a better understanding of these drugs’ effects could lead to new treatments that ...
How we feel about switching off could offer new insights into our digital behaviour and why some people find it easier to disconnect than others. How we feel about taking a break from our screens ...
RNA-based COVID-19 vaccines have brought RNA-based medicine to the attention of the wider public. Yet its potential applications are far more varied: cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, cancer, ...
To date, there has been very little empirical data on assisted suicide. Researchers at Hanover Medical School aim to fill this gap with the ASEP project. The findings are intended to help further ...
The NFDI4Earth consortium has selected the University of Freiburg’s deadtrees.earth initiative as a lighthouse project for research data management. The project collects drone images of forests from ...
How do human cells defend themselves against the Ebola virus – and how does the virus manage to evade these defenses? A research team at Tübingen University Hospital, working with scientists in ...
To what extent does bottom trawling impact the seafloor of the Baltic Sea—and how quickly does it recover? Two new studies from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) show that ...
Diabetes-related foot ulcers are often associated with numbness in the feet. According to patients, the fact that these ulcers can also cause severe and unpredictable pain does not receive sufficient ...
The Leibniz ScienceCampus 'Europe and America in the Modern World' and the Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies (DIMAS) at the University of Regensburg (UR) announced the ...
Michael Lindner Presse Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH. ECHIS: GNSS Spoofing Challenge Cyberagentur Seeks New ...