Chemistry meets molecular biology
01/30/2018Claudia Höbartner holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry I at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany. She studies DNA and RNA, the blueprints of life.
moreClaudia Höbartner holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry I at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Bavaria, Germany. She studies DNA and RNA, the blueprints of life.
moreThere is a lot of exchange going on in the 3D printing community: About half of the designs on the open platform Thingiverse are variations or combinations of existing ideas.
moreThis year, one of the world's most powerful electron microscopes will start operation at the University of Würzburg, providing images of biological molecules of unparalleled quality.
moreCircadian clocks regulate the behaviour of all living things. Scientists from the University of Würzburg have now taken a closer look at the clock's anatomical structures and molecular processes in the honeybee.
moreThe German foundation Else‐Kröner‐Fresenius‐Stiftung has again granted the support of the Excellence
Scholarship Program BEBUC for the next three years – it is already the fifth grant in a row. The aim of the
project is to recognize brilliant talents in the Congo and to promote them on their way to a professorship.
moreA cooperation between the Fraunhofer Society and the University of Würzburg will promote medical research: A centre for stem cell process engineering will be established at the former eye hospital.
moreThe association "Hilfe im Kampf gegen Krebs e.V." (help in the fight against cancer) has set up a foundation to promote cancer research at the University of Würzburg.
moreSince June 2017, Georg Gasteiger has been holding the Chair of Systems Immunology II at the University of Würzburg. The newly established professorship is part of the Max Planck Research Group for Systems Immunology that is being set up at the university.
moreThis prestigious distinction has been awarded to five scientists from the University of Würzburg this year. The five faculty members and one researcher honoured as "Citation Laureate" are among the most frequently cited and hence most influential authors in their fields of research.
moreHer career path took her from Würzburg via California to Berlin where Dorothea Fiedler heads the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology. She considers her children to be a great contrast to the world of science.
moreThe University of Würzburg is awarded a new Collaborative Research Centre and is the partner in a second CRC which will focus on the fundamentals of biofabrication and the immune response after stem cell therapy, respectively.
morePsychologists from the University of Würzburg want to study direct eye contact in more detail. Professor Anne Böckler-Raettig has set up an Emmy Noether Research Group for this purpose.
moreAstonishing evolution: Because digger wasps switched prey, the chemical protective layer of their skin changed, too.
moreA Würzburg research team describes a hitherto unknown pathogenic mechanism of motor neuron disorders. This should lead to a rethinking in drug development.
moreUsing a revolutionary live-cell microscopy technique, an international team of scientist has observed for the first time individual receptors for hormones and widely used drugs at work in intact cells.
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