On the 27th of August the winner of the Nobel Prize Stanley B. Prusiner, Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of…
Many neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s disease, are triggered by the clumping of certain protein molecules.
Together with…
Caffeine consumption has been associated with lower risks for multiple diseases, including type II diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, but the…
When plants first went on shore about 510 million years ago, this was a tremendous challenge for their survival. Researchers at Dalhousie University…
Dr. Eva Nowack, evolutionary biologist and head of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Microbial Symbiosis and Organelle Evolution” is one of the…
Physicists from Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have proved that systems of…
On 1 March 2018, Professor Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, Vice-President for International Relations of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), signed a…
Together with Japanese colleagues, biophysicists at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and Jülich Research Centre have examined the folding of…
In collaboration with British colleagues, chemists at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have discovered that simple organic carbonyls are…
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