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Research in Germany

Germany is a top destination for PhD students, postdocs, and senior scientists. The website "Research in Germany" helps you to find your way to Germany, to seek for PhD positions, research jobs or funding opportunities. It describes the German research landscape and helps you plan your career and life in Germany. Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas!

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Why Germany

There are many good reasons for doing research in Germany. It is one of the most innovative, stable and well endowed research nations and its universities and research institutions are among the best in the world. Values like freedom and diversity as well as social and ecological responsibility are considered important to ensure knowledge gain and societal progress.

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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

Key protein for the biosynthesis of defense steroids in solanaceous plants discovered

In the journal Science, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology present the crucial protein for controlling the biosynthesis of steroidal glycoalkaloids and saponins in plants of the genus Solanum and for the first time demonstrate the ecological role of steroidal saponins in insect defense.

Oct 17, 2024, 10:00:00 PM

A colloidal suspension directly after being added to a suspension medium and 5 seconds later, after crystallization has occurred. A spherical polycrystalline ball forms that exhibits a vivid play of color on its surface but otherwise remains opaque.

The expansion of turbid drops in water

It is usually not possible to look inside cloudy liquids, but researchers at the universities of Mainz and Düsseldorf have now managed to do so for the first time

Oct 17, 2024, 6:02:14 PM

Female zebra finches play a far more active and crucial role in shaping their sons' singing abilities than previously thought: They call in response to their son's vocal exercises, which activates a neuronal circuit in the male brain.

Underestimated female tutors: zebra finch mothers coach their sons to sing better

In the world of zebra finches, males sing, and females were thought to just listen. But a new study by Daniela Vallentin at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence has overturned this assumption. It turns out that female zebra finches play a far more active and crucial role in shaping their sons' singing abilities than previously thought: They call in response to their son's vocal exercises, which activates a neuronal circuit in the male brain. In this way, the female feedback directly promotes the accuracy of the learned song and highlights the often-overlooked importance of females shaping complex behaviors.

Oct 17, 2024, 5:37:09 PM

Drug Discovery within the Patient

Genetic analysis of bacteria from humans and animals paves the way for new active ingredients

Oct 17, 2024, 4:03:29 PM

A specimen of the seaweed Fucus serratus and the oxygen concentrations on its surface.

New Method for Measuring Luminescence Lifetime Offers Breakthrough in Scientific Imaging

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research and University of Copenhagen introduce an innovative approach to image luminescence lifetimes. This simple approach uses readily-available cost-effective equipment, paving the way for advanced studies of chemical dynamics in environmental and biological systems. For example, it allows to record oxygen dynamics with much higher temporal and spatial precision.

Oct 17, 2024, 2:22:57 PM

In a study with rhesus monkeys, neuroscientists at the German Primates Center have investigated how the functionality of brain-computer interfaces and thus also the fine motor skills of neuroprostheses can be improved.

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