Health Research and Medical Technology
Water contaminated with arsenic threatens millions of people around the world. German researchers have developed a biosensor test for arsenic that can quickly, safely and cheaply determine if water is safe to drink.
It is still not clear exactly what the role of synthetic biology will be in the future, but potential certainly exists, and research is well underway.
Neurodegenerative diseases have so far proved hard to beat, but scientists at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich are among those working towards curing the incurable.
There are currently believed to be some 35 million people suffering from Alzheimer’s all over the world. It’s a staggering figure that experts say could double or even triple by the year 2050.
As resources on Earth dwindle away, some researchers turn to the moon, Mars and space for new mining opportunities.
Professor Heike Walles and her team are trailblazers in the manufacture of skin. Their work not only promises help for burns and cancer patients but could spare animals from laboratory testing.
On this Graduate School: From medical robotics to transcranial sonography, from macromolecular crystallography to virus evolution, interdisciplinary research is the key.
On this Cluster of Excellence: What makes us people with distinctive characteristics? This involves our brains facilitating a number of complex functions, such perception, memory, communication or action.
Brian Buijsse of the Netherlands is a researcher at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIFE). Buijsse is examining the role that diet plays as a risk factor for developing diabetes and obesity.
Dr. Florin Popescu comes from the USA. As an engineer and brain researcher, he is working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST in Berlin.
Dr. Krishnaraj Rajalingam was born in India. He studied Biology and is now working at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin.
Mirka Uhlirova heads her own research group at the University of Cologne's Institute for Genetics.
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