About 25 years ago, Prof. Michael Hall discovered the protein “Target of Rapamycin” (TOR) at the Biozentrum. It is one of the most studied proteins of the…
Animals that live in groups face a variety of challenging social situations. The competition for food and mating partners as well as the establishment of the…
Certain wasp species behave similar to cuckoos: They intrude into other nests, destroy the offspring, deposit their own eggs and leave their larvae to feed on…
A human is a human: we are all 99.9% genetically identical. However, the remaining 0.1% accounts for the unique characteristics of each individual, whether he…
The growing market for wearable devices requires a high number of small, light-weight and high capacity sensors for different applications in sport, medicine…
Females of the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster show an especially strong response to the odor of their most dangerous enemies, parasitic wasps of the genus…
To understand how an organism’s nervous system functions, a circuit map of all its neuronal connections, known as the connectome, can be generated. A…
Researchers have found that fish oil transforms fat-storage cells into fat-burning cells, which may reduce weight gain in middle age.
The brain still harbours many unknowns. Basically, it is assumed that it stores experiences by altering the connections between brain cells.
How the brain functions is still a black box: scientists aren't even sure how many kinds of nerve cells exist in the brain. To know how the brain works, they…
The study is one of the first to show that species interactions, meaning the way species interact with each other in an ecosystem, like in a predator-prey…
A method of fabricating polymer membranes with nanometer-scale holes that overcomes some practical challenges has been demonstrated by researchers at King…
Serotonin affects emotions, sleep, anxiety, depression, appetite, pulse and breathing. It also plays a role in serious psychiatric conditions like…
Whether it is in catalytic processes in the chemical industry, environmental catalysis, new types of solar cells or new electronic components, nanoparticles…
The project involved scientists from Berlin, Cambridge, and San Francisco. For their study, this research team examined a protein known as MYC. MYC is a…
They say we can't escape our past–no matter how much we change, we still have the memory of what came before; the same can be said of our cells.
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