Insects have a spatial orientation memory that helps them remember the location of their destination if they are briefly deflected from their route….
A plant or an animal cell uses numerous processes to sort and assemble tiny building blocks into larger molecules, to rebuild molecules or to dissolve them….
Cruising range is one of the greatest challenges for the rapid implementation of electromobility in Europe. Ten partners from industry and research…
For the first time ever, researchers at TU Graz and the Medical University of Graz have managed to functionally characterise the three-dimensional interaction…
In the world of fungi, Aspergillus is an industrial superstar. Aspergillus niger, for example, has been used for decades to produce citric acid–a compound…
In the current issue of the “Science” magazine, chemists at Münster University present a new approach which for the first time enables three – and not, as…
A recently started new project intends to monitor the variety and the risks of extinction of insects living at the margins of the Andean glaciers. The…
Using 3D electron microscopy, structural biologists from the University of Zurich succeeded in elucidating the architecture of the lamina of the cell nucleus…
An international team of researchers has identified a core set of genes involved in the responses of honey bees to multiple diseases caused by viruses and…
Enzymes behave differently in a test tube compared with the molecular scrum of a living cell. Chemists from the University of Basel have now been able to…
Prof. Dr. Paul Scherer, Dr. Sandra Off and Master Sci. Biot. Katarina Wegner of the Faculty of Life Sciences made a successful job as “microbe hunters“. They…
In the modern society, energy generation heavily relies on fossil fuels, which, however, lead to environmental pollution and depletion of non-renewable…
Manufacturing small proteins known as peptides is usually very time-consuming, which has slowed development of new peptide drugs for diseases such as cancer,…
Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new tool to identify interactions between RNA and DNA molecules. The tool, called MARGI…
Every cell in our body contains the complete DNA library. So-called methyl groups regulate that in body tissues only the genetic information is expressed that…
Although stingless bees do not have a sting to fend off enemies, they are nonetheless able to defend their hives against attacks. Only four years ago it was…
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