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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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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.

Superglue Made from the Body’s Own Mucus
An international team of engineers from MIT and the Collaborative Research Center “Dynamic Hydrogels at Biointerfaces,” located at Freie Universität Berlin, has developed a new type of glue that combines the waterproof stickiness of the mussels’ plaques with the germ-proof properties of another natural material: mucus.
Feb 21, 2025, 7:52:39 PM

LLM-based web application scanner recognizes tasks and workflows

A new automated web application scanner autonomously understands and executes tasks and workflows on web applications. The tool named YuraScanner harnesses the world knowledge stored in Large Language Models (LLMs) to navigate through web applications in the same way a human user would. It is capable of working through tasks in a coherent fashion, performing the correct sequence of steps as required by, for example, an online shop. YuraScanner was tested against 20 web applications, unearthing 12 zero-day cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. The technique behind YuraScanner as well as the tool itself have been developed at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security.
Feb 21, 2025, 2:11:44 PM

Rare side effect of cancer immunotherapy

Researchers have discovered and analysed a rare but serious side effect of an innovative form of blood cancer therapy. The scientists from the University of Leipzig Medical Center, the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI) and the University Hospital of Cologne have published their findings in the high-impact journal Nature Medicine.
Feb 21, 2025, 1:51:02 PM

Blood proteins during development from childhood to adolescence
Large-scale study maps how genetics and development shape children's blood proteins. Data can be accessed on the new web portal proteomevariation.org. Blood proteins serve as crucial indicators of health and disease risk throughout development. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry revealed how these proteins are regulated during childhood and adolescence, providing a vital foundation for understanding disease mechanisms and developing better diagnostic tools.
Feb 21, 2025, 1:06:50 PM

New sauropod species from Romania transform our understanding of dinosaur island life in Europe
The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils from North America. However, a recent study led by Verónica Díez Díaz from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, identifying two new dinosaur species from Romania, highlights the crucial role of European fossil discoveries in providing a more comprehensive picture of this extinction episode.
Feb 21, 2025, 11:09:24 AM

Invisibility Cloak for Magnetic Obstacles
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method that makes objects on a magnetic field invisible within a particle stream. Until now, this so-called cloaking had only been studied for waves such as light or sound. They report their results in Nature Communications.
Feb 21, 2025, 11:03:51 AM

Superglue Made from the Body’s Own Mucus
An international team of engineers from MIT and the Collaborative Research Center “Dynamic Hydrogels at Biointerfaces,” located at Freie Universität Berlin, has developed a new type of glue that combines the waterproof stickiness of the mussels’ plaques with the germ-proof properties of another natural material: mucus.
Feb 21, 2025, 7:52:39 PM

LLM-based web application scanner recognizes tasks and workflows

A new automated web application scanner autonomously understands and executes tasks and workflows on web applications. The tool named YuraScanner harnesses the world knowledge stored in Large Language Models (LLMs) to navigate through web applications in the same way a human user would. It is capable of working through tasks in a coherent fashion, performing the correct sequence of steps as required by, for example, an online shop. YuraScanner was tested against 20 web applications, unearthing 12 zero-day cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. The technique behind YuraScanner as well as the tool itself have been developed at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security.
Feb 21, 2025, 2:11:44 PM

Rare side effect of cancer immunotherapy

Researchers have discovered and analysed a rare but serious side effect of an innovative form of blood cancer therapy. The scientists from the University of Leipzig Medical Center, the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI) and the University Hospital of Cologne have published their findings in the high-impact journal Nature Medicine.
Feb 21, 2025, 1:51:02 PM

Blood proteins during development from childhood to adolescence
Large-scale study maps how genetics and development shape children's blood proteins. Data can be accessed on the new web portal proteomevariation.org. Blood proteins serve as crucial indicators of health and disease risk throughout development. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry revealed how these proteins are regulated during childhood and adolescence, providing a vital foundation for understanding disease mechanisms and developing better diagnostic tools.
Feb 21, 2025, 1:06:50 PM

New sauropod species from Romania transform our understanding of dinosaur island life in Europe
The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils from North America. However, a recent study led by Verónica Díez Díaz from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, identifying two new dinosaur species from Romania, highlights the crucial role of European fossil discoveries in providing a more comprehensive picture of this extinction episode.
Feb 21, 2025, 11:09:24 AM

Invisibility Cloak for Magnetic Obstacles
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method that makes objects on a magnetic field invisible within a particle stream. Until now, this so-called cloaking had only been studied for waves such as light or sound. They report their results in Nature Communications.
Feb 21, 2025, 11:03:51 AM
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