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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.

Lin Yang

Accelerating Drug Development for Lung Diseases: New Insights from Single-Cell Genomics

To mechanistically understand the root causes of lung disease, and identify drugs that target specific pathways, the scientists around Prof. Herbert Schiller and Dr. Gerald Burgstaller from Helmholtz Munich are collecting deep molecular insights from patient samples and combining these with experimental interventions in the laboratory. A new combination of methods now enabled them to study mechanisms directly in human lung tissue, thereby accelerating drug development for novel therapies. This groundbreaking work is now published in Science Translational Medicine.
Dec 6, 2023, 9:10:00 PM

Groundbreaking study unveils secrets of galactic outflows
Under certain circumstances galaxies release huge quantities of matter into their environment, triggered by a large number of explosions of massive stars. The MUSE instrument of the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has now demonstrated for the first time that such “galactic winds” are by no means rare, but actually occur frequently.
Dec 6, 2023, 7:17:03 PM

Eugenio Vázquez

A novel microscope operates on the quantum state of single electrons
Physicists at the University of Regensburg have found a way to manipulate the quantum state of individual electrons using a microscope with atomic resolution. The results of the study have now been published in the renowned journal Nature.
Dec 6, 2023, 6:00:00 PM

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Possible treatment for anaemia in myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS)
In patients affected by myelodysplastic neoplasms, the body does not produce enough functional blood cells. Patients suffer from anaemia – a lack of red blood cells and haemoglobin – which can progress to acute leukaemia. Imetelstat, a new agent beyond the current standard of care, may help to avoid blood transfusions, which can be a burden for MDS patients, especially over a long period of time. This effect was demonstrated in a clinical trial at 118 sites in 17 countries led by Professor Uwe Platzbecker from Leipzig University and the University of Leipzig Medical Center, in collaboration with an international research team. The results have been published in the journal “The Lancet”.
Dec 6, 2023, 3:53:51 PM

Karl Kübler

Deciphering nature’s climate shield: Plant diversity stabilises soil temperature
A new study has revealed a natural solution to mitigate the effects of climate change, such as extreme weather events. Researchers from Leipzig University, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig (iDiv) and other research institutions have discovered that high plant diversity acts as a buffer against fluctuations in soil temperature. This buffer can then be of vital importance to ecosystem processes. They have just published their new findings in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Dec 6, 2023, 1:45:14 PM

Climate change could trigger methane release from the deep ocean
06.12.2023/Newcastle upon Tyne/Kiel. An international team of researchers involving experts from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel found that methane, a potent greenhouse gas, released as methane hydrates break down, moves from the deepest parts of the continental slope to the edge of the underwater shelf, and even further inland beyond where methane hydrates are typically found. This means that a substantial amount of methane could potentially be vulnerable and released into the atmosphere as a result of climate warming.
Dec 6, 2023, 12:16:49 PM

Lin Yang

Accelerating Drug Development for Lung Diseases: New Insights from Single-Cell Genomics

To mechanistically understand the root causes of lung disease, and identify drugs that target specific pathways, the scientists around Prof. Herbert Schiller and Dr. Gerald Burgstaller from Helmholtz Munich are collecting deep molecular insights from patient samples and combining these with experimental interventions in the laboratory. A new combination of methods now enabled them to study mechanisms directly in human lung tissue, thereby accelerating drug development for novel therapies. This groundbreaking work is now published in Science Translational Medicine.
Dec 6, 2023, 9:10:00 PM

Groundbreaking study unveils secrets of galactic outflows
Under certain circumstances galaxies release huge quantities of matter into their environment, triggered by a large number of explosions of massive stars. The MUSE instrument of the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has now demonstrated for the first time that such “galactic winds” are by no means rare, but actually occur frequently.
Dec 6, 2023, 7:17:03 PM

Eugenio Vázquez

A novel microscope operates on the quantum state of single electrons
Physicists at the University of Regensburg have found a way to manipulate the quantum state of individual electrons using a microscope with atomic resolution. The results of the study have now been published in the renowned journal Nature.
Dec 6, 2023, 6:00:00 PM

Colourbox

Possible treatment for anaemia in myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS)
In patients affected by myelodysplastic neoplasms, the body does not produce enough functional blood cells. Patients suffer from anaemia – a lack of red blood cells and haemoglobin – which can progress to acute leukaemia. Imetelstat, a new agent beyond the current standard of care, may help to avoid blood transfusions, which can be a burden for MDS patients, especially over a long period of time. This effect was demonstrated in a clinical trial at 118 sites in 17 countries led by Professor Uwe Platzbecker from Leipzig University and the University of Leipzig Medical Center, in collaboration with an international research team. The results have been published in the journal “The Lancet”.
Dec 6, 2023, 3:53:51 PM

Karl Kübler

Deciphering nature’s climate shield: Plant diversity stabilises soil temperature
A new study has revealed a natural solution to mitigate the effects of climate change, such as extreme weather events. Researchers from Leipzig University, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig (iDiv) and other research institutions have discovered that high plant diversity acts as a buffer against fluctuations in soil temperature. This buffer can then be of vital importance to ecosystem processes. They have just published their new findings in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Dec 6, 2023, 1:45:14 PM

Climate change could trigger methane release from the deep ocean
06.12.2023/Newcastle upon Tyne/Kiel. An international team of researchers involving experts from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel found that methane, a potent greenhouse gas, released as methane hydrates break down, moves from the deepest parts of the continental slope to the edge of the underwater shelf, and even further inland beyond where methane hydrates are typically found. This means that a substantial amount of methane could potentially be vulnerable and released into the atmosphere as a result of climate warming.
Dec 6, 2023, 12:16:49 PM
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