Want to have a say in who’s going to win INDEX: Award 2011? And want to catch a glimpse of the Danish Crown Prince and Crown Princess at the grand Award Show…
Funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) the MoMo – project (Integrated Water Resource Management in Central Asia: Model region Mongolia…
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that DNA “linker” strands coax nano-sized rods to line up in way…
Protons, as positively charged hydrogen ions, move very rapidly in water from one water molecule to the next, which is why the conductivity of water is…
The Leipzig Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research has gained new insights on the influence of tobacco smoke in utero. For the first time, it could be…
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a general approach for combining different types of nanoparticles…
In order to assess the global impacts of land use on the environment and help provide appropriate countermeasures, a group of researchers under the leadership…
This is the result of studies carried out by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Leipzig and the Haukeland University…
Kessler Foundation scientists collaborated with colleagues in Spain to study memory and learning in patients with Parkinson Disease (PD). They found that the…
In recent years, it has become clear that the genetic code is far more complex than previously assumed. In addition to the well-known building blocks adenine,…
Looking at the question of how social behavior has developed over the course of evolution, scientists from the universities in Mainz and Basel have gained new…
The innate immune system recognizes infectious agents such as viruses and bacteria. A group of lymphocytes known as “innate lymphoid cells” or ILCs plays a…
Substantial improvements in freshwater quality by 2015 have been a declared objective of the EU member states, manifesting itself by the requirements of the…
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have discovered that molybdenum trioxide nanoparticles oxidize sulfite to sulfate in liver…
Physicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Graduate School of Excellence “Materials Science in Mainz” (MAINZ) have been able with the aid…
Education and behavior have a greater impact on the development of nearsightedness than do genetic factors: With each school year completed, a person becomes…
Around 75 per cent of the supposed functionless DNA in the human genome is transcribed into so-called non-coding RNAs (ribonucleic acid). To date, little is…
Both have become popular and eminently respectable fields of study in emerging economic regions as well as in developing countries. But what do you do if you…
Tiny vesicles containing protective substances which they transmit to nerve cells apparently play an important role in the functioning of neurons. As cell…
Researchers at Leipzig University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research have now discovered that blue and red light sensing photoreceptors…
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