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From Wound Healing to Regeneration
Scientists demonstrate how injuries are converted to regeneration signals at the molecular level
07-Sep-2022
The phenomenon of regeneration was discovered over 200 years ago in the freshwater polyp Hydra. Until now, however, it was largely unclear how the orderly regeneration of lost tissues or organs is activated after injury. In its investigations of Hydra, an interdisciplinary research team at ...
Porous Crystals Bind Fluorine-containing Greenhouse Gases
26-Jul-2022
Emissions of greenhouse gases contribute significantly to global warming. Not only carbon dioxide (CO2) but also fluorine-containing gases – including so-called per- or polyfluorinated hydrocarbons, or PFCs – have a significant share in this development. Researchers at the Institute of Organic ...
Rear-end Collision on the “Ribosome Highway”
Researchers identify bacterial protein that senses and rescues “stalled” ribosomes
14-Mar-2022
As a molecular machine found in the cells of all organisms, the ribosome is responsible for making new proteins. It reads the blueprint for a certain protein on a messenger molecule – known as messenger RNA (mRNA) – and then converts this information into new proteins. For a number of reasons, ...
Silicon with a Two-Dimensional Structure
Chemists succeed in producing synthesis and complete characterisation for the first time
26-Jul-2021
Silicon, a semi-metal, bonds in its natural form with four other elements and its three-dimensional structure takes the form of a tetrahedron. For a long time, it seemed impossible to achieve the synthesis and characterisation of a two-dimensional equivalent – geometrically speaking, a square. ...
Optically Active Defects Improve Carbon Nanotubes
Scientists achieve defect control with a new reaction pathway
13-Apr-2021
The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of certain structural “imperfections” or defects. The challenge, however, is to control the number and type of these defects. In the case of carbon nanotubes – microscopically small ...
New Class of Highly Effective Inhibitors Protects against Neurodegeneration
Neurobiologists decode central mechanism of degenerative processes in the brains of mouse models and develop new principle for therapeutic agents
12-Oct-2020
Neurobiologists at Heidelberg University have discovered how a special receptor at neuronal junctions that normally activates a protective genetic programme can lead to nerve cell death when located outside synapses. Their fundamental findings on neurodegenerative processes simultaneously led the ...
How Cells Assemble Their Skeleton
Researchers study the formation of microtubules
20-Jan-2020
Microtubules, filamentous structures within the cell, are required for many important processes, including cell division and intracellular transport. A research team led by scientists from Heidelberg University recently discovered how the spiral-shaped, modular microtubules are formed and how ...
Mapping the Energetic Landscape of Solar Cells
New spectroscopic method
19-Aug-2019
A new spectroscopic method now makes it possible to measure and visualise the energetic landscape inside solar cells based on organic materials. It was developed by a research team led by Prof. Dr Yana Vaynzof, a physicist at Heidelberg University. This novel visualisation technique enables ...
New Measurement Device: Carbon Dioxide As Geothermometer
Researchers quantify rare CO2 variants using laser spectroscopy
22-May-2019
For the first time it is possible to measure, simultaneously and with extreme precision, four rare molecular variants of carbon dioxide (CO2) using a novel laser instrument. It is thus able to measure the temperature during the formation of CO2-binding carbonates and carbonaceous fossils ...
Bifacial Stem Cells Produce Wood and Bast
One of the most important growth processes on Earth studied
24-Jan-2019
So-called bifacial stem cells are responsible for one of the most critical growth processes on Earth – the formation of wood. By alternately developing into wood and bast cells, these stem cells are thus starting points for forming wood as well as generating plant bast fibres. A team of ...
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