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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.

A blue light pulse triggers a calcium signal (red) in guard cells, which is followed by an anion current (black). The influx of calcium into the cell promotes the release of further calcium. This activates anion channels and modulates stomatal dynamics.

Plant Guard Cells can Count Environmental Stimuli

Plants adapt their water consumption to environmental conditions by counting and calculating environmental stimuli with their guard cells. Plant researchers from Würzburg report this in ‘Current Biology’.

Oct 21, 2024, 7:18:00 PM

The data from fluorescence experiments are processed with the help of “dictionaries” and made available together with integrative structure models in a database.

3D structures of biomolecules – “dictionaries” make fluorescence-based data accessible

Physical Chemistry: Publication in Nature Methods A research team from Germany and the USA led by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has developed a data description that can provide results from fluorescence measurements for structural and dynamic modelling of large biomolecules. The authors explain in the scientific journal Nature Methods that, for the first time, other researchers can access fluorescence-based integrative structural models and their dynamics through databases. This provides experiment-based training data for the next generation of AI tools for dynamic structure modelling.

Oct 21, 2024, 5:28:54 PM

Electron micrograph of Escherichia coli.

Chemical trick activates antibiotic directly at the pathogen

Click-to-release technique avoids the severely nephrotoxic effect of colistin

Oct 21, 2024, 4:02:37 PM

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Ovulation filmed from start to finish for the first time

Approximately 400 times in a woman's life, a mature egg makes the “leap.” It is released into the fallopian tube, ready for fertilization by the sperm. Researchers led by Melina Schuh, Christopher Thomas, and Tabea Lilian Marx from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences have now succeeded in visualizing the entire process of ovulation in mouse follicles in real-time. The new live imaging method developed by the team allows for the process to be studied with high spatial and temporal resolution, contributing to new insights in fertility research.

Oct 21, 2024, 3:50:24 PM

New Fast and Sustainable Method for Hydrogen Production

Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Francesco Ciucci from the University of Bayreuth, a German-Chinese research team has developed a new method for the electrochemical splitting of water. This not only accelerates the production of hydrogen for technology and industry but also makes it more sustainable. The researchers report on their findings in Nature Nanotechnology.

Oct 21, 2024, 3:37:39 PM

Developed the PREFUL method for regional lung imaging in MRI: Dr. Andreas Voskrebenzev, physicist (left) and Professor Dr. Jens Vogel-Claussen (right), Senior Consultant at the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the MHH.

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