CureVac enters clinical phase with mRNA vaccine

Bacteria that can "breathe" stones and sulphur

Microbes remove toxic sulphide and use iron minerals for their growth

Materials science meets medicine: Why implants fail

How plants protect their genetic material from heat

Key Mechanism for Alzheimer’s Disease Discovered

Researchers identify neurotoxic protein complex

Cellular memory: How cells move cleverly through the body

One protein, two light-activated states

New Insights into Tamoxifen Side Effects

Bacteria strains infecting cattle and humans in US are highly similar

Researchers report dangerous, often antibiotic-resistant pathogen called Salmonella Dublin is circulating among animals, humans and food-associated environments

How amino acids are transported in plants

Study: Vegetarian diet lowers cancer risk

Researchers found a significant reduction in risk, particularly for stomach cancer and lymphoma.

1.2 million euros in funding for the production of "gene cabs"

Nanodroplets Could Speed Up the Search for New Medicine

KIT researchers develop a miniaturized platform that combines drug synthesis, testing, and analysis on a single chip — saving years of work and millions in costs

Ultrafast Pace in the Brain: New Insights into Calcium Transport and Signal Processing

Freezing brain tumor cells in sleep mode

Rethinking research: sustainability for climate-friendly science

The Leibniz-HKI is committed to sustainable research and is developing a concept to make work processes in science and administration more resource-efficient

Determining our biological age with sensor technology

Sweat provides information about longevity and resilience

Plant-based diet can reduce the risk of multimorbidity

Multimorbidity due to cancer and cardiometabolic diseases can be reduced - regardless of age

Aircraft toilets could flush out spread of global superbugs

Wastewater from aircraft toilets could provide a critical warning system for the global spread of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) superbugs

TU Wien develops a microscope for ultra-sensitive samples

How can you produce the best possible image in a microscope without destroying the sample? A new trick enables gentle imaging with maximum image quality.

This protein slows the aging brain and we know how to counter it

Unexpected side-effect: how common medications clear the way for pathogens

Many non-antibiotics weaken the natural protective function of the intestine – with consequences for the colonization with pathogenic bacteria

Could lithium explain — and treat — Alzheimer’s disease?

Lithium loss ignites Alzheimer’s, but lithium compound can reverse disease in mice

This protein slows the aging brain and we know how to counter it

New method loads mRNA into exosomes in 10 minutes—just mix and go

KIST team develops cubosome-based method for loading large therapeutics without damaging exosomes

How immune cells switch into attack mode

New insights into macrophage biology

These immune cells eat molecular trash to keep Alzheimer's at bay

A molecular receptor enables microglia to gobble up and digest amyloid beta plaques

Researchers identify a potential biomarker for long COVID

Extracellular vesicles in study participants contain SARS-CoV-2 peptides

Insights into olfactory disorders in Alzheimer's disease

First Human Implantation of a Brain-Computer Interface made in Germany

CorTec Announces Neurotech Milestone: “This breakthrough opens the door to therapies that were once unimaginable”

Higher ultra processed food intake linked to increased lung cancer risk

“Industrial processing alters the food matrix, affecting nutrient availability and absorption, while also generating harmful contaminants”

Bayer Group: First-quarter performance as expected

“We’re consolidating roles, designing teams for more impact, and taking out layers”

Humify – superfood for the soil

Fighting climate change with green chemistry: The start-up Humify has developed a technology that can reactivate soil as a carbon sink

A Breakthrough in PFAS Destruction

Claros Successfully Demonstrates High-Throughput PFAS Destruction in Landmark Pilot

Unilever reaches new business arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel

Unilever announced it has reached a new arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel which will ensure the ice cream stays available to all consumers

Simple color-changing sensor quickly identifies poisonous gases

A durable, paper-based sensor array enables quick and accurate measurements within minutes

CO₂ as a raw material: Power2Polymers sets milestone for climate-friendly chemistry

New materials with real added value

MrBeast chocolate comes to Germany

Exclusively at EDEKA, Netto Marken-Discount and Marktkauf

How Molecules Break and Form Bonds

A crucial step toward truly understanding chemical processes

Magnetic cooling – using a frustrated desert mineral

Research team identifies atacamite as a magnetocaloric material

Pineapple juice is scarce and expensive due to a small harvest

European XFEL reveals quantum fluctuations in complex molecules

A milestone in molecular imaging

A more climate-friendly way to produce nitrogen fertilizer

Ammonia can be produced from water and nitrogen gas using electricity from solar and wind

Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure in older people by changing oral microbiome

"Encouraging older adults to consume more nitrate-rich vegetables could have significant long term health benefits"

Breakthrough in catalysis research: splitting CO2 with nickel

Ancient mechanism in bacteria elucidated - important findings for climate protection

Breakthrough smart plastic: Self-healing, shape-shifting, and stronger than steel

Metsä Tissue scores its sixth consecutive Platinum-level recognition in the EcoVadis assessment

With super acids against perpetual chemicals

TU Berlin produces silicon-based "Lewis acids" that can attack the problem chemical PFAS

Allergy-Triggering Proteins in Barley Measured Precisely for the First Time

New Basis for More Tolerable Foods

Getting sticky: The highest-performing underwater adhesive hydrogel polymer

Inspired by biology, the technology has been developed using data mining and machine learning

Nighttime pistachio snacking may reshape gut microbiome in prediabetic adults

Eating pistachios every night for 12 weeks altered bacteria in the gut, according to new study

An intelligent catalyst for sustainable chemistry

A breakthrough in the field of single-atom catalysts

Study shows: positive mood after morning coffee

Researchers from Bielefeld and Warwick collect data over four weeks

Hydrogen transport with salt

Around 1 million euros in funding for Wismar University of Applied Sciences in the project for innovative hydrogen storage based on formate salts:

Did you know how long water lasts?

Researchers at European XFEL create a novel gold compound

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