Hope through immunotherapy
KR2 is a member of a very large family of microbial rhodopsins — light-sensitive proteins present in the cell membrane of archaea, bacteria, viruses, and…
Enzymes: they are the central drivers for biochemical metabolic processes in every living cell, enabling reactions to take place efficiently. It is this very…
In many regions of the world, people now spend over 90 percent of their life in indoor environments. In our homes and offices, we are exposed to many…
As an alternative propulsion technology in the transport sector, hydrogen is playing an important role in the energy transition. However, it is not yet…
Various diseases in humans and animals – such as tumors, strokes or chronic kidney disease – damage the blood vessels. Capillaries, the smallest blood vessels…
You may like them or not, but almost everyone knows them: brown algae such as Fucus vesiculosus, commonly known as bladderwrack, grow along the entire German…
In medicine and biology, there is great interest in efficient and inexpensive methods for identifying and separating different cell types, for example for…
A newly developed video technique has allowed scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt at the Bee Research Institute of the Polytechnical Society to record…
All flowering plants pass through a flowering period at the transition from the growth to the reproductive phase. Its beginning is determined by complex plant…
A team of scientists from the University of Bristol, McMaster University, and Universidad de Las Américas Quito, sought to establish the ecological importance…
Ultrathin materials are extremely interesting as building blocks for next generation nano electronic devices, as it is much easier to make circuits and other…
The plant component cellulose is an extremely resistant, water-insoluble polymer that is difficult to break down. This makes the efficient and sustainable use…
In a new study published in the journal Nature Food, an international team of researchers has now assessed and categorised key innovations with a potential to…
Biotechnological production of natural products and drugs
In a new paper published in PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, the University of Oxford, and Sorbonne…