Renal cell carcinoma is one of the most frequent and deadly urogenital cancers. Even if the tumors are treated, they ultimately end in metastasis in about half…
International researchers working in collaboration with Professor Wolfgang R. Hess and Dr. Jens Georg, both from the University of Freiburg’s Faculty of…
For alpine plant species, climate change presents a special challenge: To escape increased greenhouse warming, the species have to move to a higher-altitude…
Dr. Florian Weinberg, from Prof. Dr. Tilman Brummer’s research group at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research (IMMZ) of the University of…
Larvaceans play a significant role in moving carbon from the upper part of the ocean down into the deep sea. They build balloon-like mucus structures called…
The function and distribution of adipose tissue in the body change during the course of life. Beige fat cells, a special type of adipocytes, have the…
And yet, this compound has long been a bit of an enigma because of missing information on its properties. Now, chemists at the National Institute of Standards…
3D printing by direct laser writing produces micrometer-sized structures with precisely defined properties. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology…
A tiny robot that gets into the human body through the simple medical injection and, passing healthy organs, finds and treats directly the goal – a…
A team including Dr. Karen Alim, head of the Max Planck Research Group on Biological Physics and Morphogenesis at the Göttingen Max Planck Institute for…
The ide (Leuciscus idus) is a fish that inhabits the lower stretches of slow-flowing rivers. Like most fishes, it can perceive the current using its lateral…
Consider a snow globe. When shaken, the tiny flakes and particles are set into motion and “it snows”. What lights up kid’s eyes has been a long standing puzzle…
However, since CO2 is a fully oxidized, thermodynamically stable and chemically inert molecule, the activation of CO2 and its hydrogenation to hydrocarbons or…
Each year, close to five million Germans spent their holidays at the North Sea, relaxing on the beach or enjoying the beautiful nature of the Wadden Sea….
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter – nowadays, good social networking and communication is more important than ever. The immune system also resembles a large social…
In experiments on transport tissues in plants, researchers from Heidelberg University were able to identify factors of crucial importance for the formation of…
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