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.

Fragment of a leaf point from Barleben-Adamsee.

„Living tins“ of the Stone Age. Finds of Ice Age turtle shell fragments from Barleben-Adamsee, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

The numerous gravel pits in the middle Elbe valley near Magdeburg (Germany) have already yielded many outstanding archaeological finds from the period between the Middle Upper Pleistocene (Weichselian Glacial) and modern times. Particularly for the Pleistocene, the deep soundings into otherwise thickly covered layers constantly offer surprising insights and findings. In the Barleben-Adamsee gravel pit, in addition to flint tools, it was now possible to recover five turtle shell fragments that were around 42,000 to 50,000 years old. The turtles could have been easy-to-transport food reserves of early humans.

Apr 25, 2024, 11:02:53 PM

Traffic noise, a novel risk factor for cardiovascular diseases

An international group of noise experts from the Copenhagen Cancer Institute (Denmark), the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Philadelphia (USA) and the Department of Cardiology at the Mainz University Medical Center have analyzed recent epidemiological data and found strong evidence that transportation noise is closely linked to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. As a result, the researchers call for traffic noise to be recognized as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The results of their analyses were published today in the renowned journal of the American Heart Association, Circulation Research.

Apr 25, 2024, 10:38:32 PM

The mitochondria in the liver change their shape as soon as food is perceived. The image shows an electron micrograph of the mitochondria in liver cells.

Food in sight? The liver is ready!

Adapting sugar metabolism starts in the brain What happens in the body when we are hungry and see and smell food? A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research has now been able to show in mice that adaptations in the liver mitochondria take place after only a few minutes. Stimulated by the activation of a group of nerve cells in the brain, the mitochondria of the liver cells change and prepare the liver for the adaptation of the sugar metabolism. The findings, published in the journal Science, could open up new avenues for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Apr 25, 2024, 10:00:00 PM

Elevated TRMT10C protein levels in Alzheimer’s disease result in methylation of mitochondrial mRNA and subsequently in the suppression of the synthesis of a subunit protein of complex I of the respiratory chain; the outcome is mitochondrial dysfunction.

RNA modification is responsible for the disruption of mitochondrial protein synthesis in Alzheimer's disease

Methylation of mRNA disturbs the production of ND5, a subunit of complex I of the respiratory chain / Impairment of the brain's energy supply

Apr 25, 2024, 8:11:29 PM

Bonn researchers provide insight into the choreography of immune cells during the fight against viruses: (from left) Prof. Niels Lemmermann; Prof. Natalio Garbi, Dr. Maria Belen Rodrigo and Prof. Christian Kurts

How immune cells communicate to fight viruses

Chemokines are signalling proteins that orchestrate the interaction of immune cells against pathogens and tumours. To understand this complex network, various techniques have been developed to identify chemokine-producing cells. However, it has not yet been possible to determine which cells react to these chemokines. Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn have developed a new class of genetically modified mice that enables the simultaneous identification of chemokine producers and sensors.

Apr 25, 2024, 6:02:58 PM