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Recently identified protein group plays major role in nature -
Pressemitteilung, 15.02.2022
Proteins are the “workhorses” in every living cell and constitute the chemical basis of life. These little ma-chines are required to turn food into energy, to manage motion and brain activitie…
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Making hospital staff fit to fight cyber-attacks -
Pressemitteilung, 11.02.2022
Cyber-attacks to hospitals pose an increasing threat to data security and healthcare in German hospitals. Simple human error is often the way that hackers trick their way into the system. The …
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Sacred remains: ancestors return home -
Pressemitteilung, 10.02.2022
When the anatomist Georg Thilenius excavated a number of skulls and skeletons on the island of Maui in 1897, he violated the prevailing Hawaiian laws that prohibited the removal of human remai…
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Impact of Covid-19 social isolation measures on early development -
Pressemitteilung, 07.02.2022
An international consortium with researchers from 13 countries has investigated the impact of Covid-19 re-lated social isolation measures on 2,200 young infants and toddlers between 8 and 36 m…
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Virtual tours make pig farming more transparent -
Pressemitteilung, 02.02.2022
Many people would like to see better animal welfare and transparency in livestock farming. In recent years, agriculture has increasingly tried to be more open, for example through farm tours. …
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Genome Atlas to support the rescue of biodiversity in Europe -
Pressemitteilung, 26.01.2022
To provide important genomic data to inform research about Europe’s biodiversity, scientists from 48 different countries initiated the "European Reference Genome Atlas" (ERGA) in 2021. Along w…
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Branching worm discovered in Japan named after Godzilla’s nemesis -
Pressemitteilung, 20.01.2022
Branching marine worms are bizarre creatures with one head but a body that branches over and over again into multiple posterior ends. Until now, only two species of these curious beasts, thoug…
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Balanced diet can mitigate negative impact of pests for bumblebees -
Pressemitteilung, 19.01.2022
Bumblebees are important pollinators because they pollinate many different plant species and are extremely resilient. They can still manage to fly at temperatures that are too cold for other p…
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How we understand causality -
Pressemitteilung, 18.01.2022
How people acquire and use knowledge about causal relationships is the focus of a new project at the Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology at the University of Göttingen. The Reinhart Kos…
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Form follows function -
Pressemitteilung, 11.01.2022
The computational neuroscientist Professor Alexander Ecker from Göttingen University and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization has received a Starting Grant from the Euro…
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Daring to leave gaps in the genome -
Pressemitteilung, 23.12.2021
Genetic information is now indispensable for modern plant breeding. Genome sequencing is now much cheaper than it was, but still accounts for a large part of the costs in animal and plant bree…
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Switching in the brain: a fresh perspective -
Pressemitteilung, 22.12.2021
The human brain is extremely dynamic. The connections between nerve cells change when we learn or forget. But our brain’s computations change even faster than its structure: in a heartbeat, we…
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Innovative X-ray imaging shows Covid-19 can cause vascular damage to the heart -
Pressemitteilung, 21.12.2021
An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen and Hannover Medical School (MHH) has detected significant changes in the heart muscle tissue of people who died from Covid-…
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Der zerstreute Professor: Was Eremiten und Gelehrte verbindet -
Pressemitteilung, 21.12.2021
Während Einsamkeit heute überwiegend als Problem wahrgenommen wird, war der Rückzug aus der Gesellschaft über viele Jahrhunderte ein beliebter Trend. Vor allem im Mittelalter standen Eremiten …
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Strategies of the forest during extreme drought -
Pressemitteilung, 17.12.2021
How do tropical rainforests and their plants react to extreme drought? Understanding these processes is crucial to making forests more resilient to the increasing risk of drought due to climat…
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