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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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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 identified for understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at the University of Cologne have identified a specific form of the tau protein that is responsible for mediating the toxicity of harmful protein clumps in human neurons and thus represents a new target for future treatments / publication in ‘Alzheimer’s & Dementia’
Feb 28, 2025, 3:19:31 PM

Milestone in Neurosurgery: New Method Enables Personalized Precision Surgery for Brain Tumors
A team of researchers at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Kiel Campus, the Kiel University, and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, have developed an innovative method for real-time molecular genetic classification of brain tumors during surgery. This groundbreaking approach combines DNA methylation analysis with advanced machine learning technologies to provide detailed information about the tumor type during surgery.
Feb 28, 2025, 1:19:05 PM

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Researchers at the University of Jena publish a dictionary of fragrances
People all over the world largely agree on what the colour blue looks like or what the shape of a ball feels like. But when it comes to describing odours, opinions often differ. This is because, unlike the processing of wavelengths of light in the brain, which makes it possible to determine colours relatively clearly, it is still not easy to deduce the smell of substances in our environment from their chemical composition. To help solve this so-called stimulus-percept problem, scientists at Friedrich Schiller University Jena have now presented data sets in which they compile how thousands of test subjects perceive, describe, and classify odours.
Feb 28, 2025, 1:00:00 PM

J. Soldevilla

7000 year old grinding stone depositions offer insights into Neolithic beliefs and perception of time
Grinding stones are between the most important tools of the early farmers who settled Central Europe starting from 5500 BC. In recent years, depositions of such tools have been documented for the first time in Central Germany. These finds have now been examined within a cooperation project between the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. An article recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports examines the levels of meaning of the grinding stone depositions, which have connections to Neolithic ideas of time and life cycles.
Feb 28, 2025, 12:30:48 PM

Illustration: Margot Riggi

Scientists discover the function of a mysterious HIV component
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have discovered the mechanism behind an important step in the life cycle of HIV. Working together with teams at Heidelberg and Yale Universities, they found that the enigmatic “spacer peptide 2”, one of the virus components, plays a key role in converting immature HIV-1 particles into infectious particles. The results of the study were published in the journal Nature.
Feb 27, 2025, 9:15:56 PM

Thomas Koziel

How did life develop on early Earth? New source of nitrogen discovered

Researchers involving RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Southwestern Germany, are unraveling mysteries of a bygone era: As part of current studies, they are investigating how life could have developed on the early Earth. Contrary to previous assumptions, it appears that biologically available nitrogen was not a limiting factor.
Feb 27, 2025, 5:41:03 PM

Key protein identified for understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at the University of Cologne have identified a specific form of the tau protein that is responsible for mediating the toxicity of harmful protein clumps in human neurons and thus represents a new target for future treatments / publication in ‘Alzheimer’s & Dementia’
Feb 28, 2025, 3:19:31 PM

Milestone in Neurosurgery: New Method Enables Personalized Precision Surgery for Brain Tumors
A team of researchers at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Kiel Campus, the Kiel University, and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, have developed an innovative method for real-time molecular genetic classification of brain tumors during surgery. This groundbreaking approach combines DNA methylation analysis with advanced machine learning technologies to provide detailed information about the tumor type during surgery.
Feb 28, 2025, 1:19:05 PM

(Photo: Jens Meyer)

Researchers at the University of Jena publish a dictionary of fragrances
People all over the world largely agree on what the colour blue looks like or what the shape of a ball feels like. But when it comes to describing odours, opinions often differ. This is because, unlike the processing of wavelengths of light in the brain, which makes it possible to determine colours relatively clearly, it is still not easy to deduce the smell of substances in our environment from their chemical composition. To help solve this so-called stimulus-percept problem, scientists at Friedrich Schiller University Jena have now presented data sets in which they compile how thousands of test subjects perceive, describe, and classify odours.
Feb 28, 2025, 1:00:00 PM

J. Soldevilla

7000 year old grinding stone depositions offer insights into Neolithic beliefs and perception of time
Grinding stones are between the most important tools of the early farmers who settled Central Europe starting from 5500 BC. In recent years, depositions of such tools have been documented for the first time in Central Germany. These finds have now been examined within a cooperation project between the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. An article recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports examines the levels of meaning of the grinding stone depositions, which have connections to Neolithic ideas of time and life cycles.
Feb 28, 2025, 12:30:48 PM

Illustration: Margot Riggi

Scientists discover the function of a mysterious HIV component
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have discovered the mechanism behind an important step in the life cycle of HIV. Working together with teams at Heidelberg and Yale Universities, they found that the enigmatic “spacer peptide 2”, one of the virus components, plays a key role in converting immature HIV-1 particles into infectious particles. The results of the study were published in the journal Nature.
Feb 27, 2025, 9:15:56 PM

Thomas Koziel

How did life develop on early Earth? New source of nitrogen discovered

Researchers involving RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Southwestern Germany, are unraveling mysteries of a bygone era: As part of current studies, they are investigating how life could have developed on the early Earth. Contrary to previous assumptions, it appears that biologically available nitrogen was not a limiting factor.
Feb 27, 2025, 5:41:03 PM
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