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LMU researchers put a spotlight on the smallest blood cells known as platelets

PRESS RELEASE -- 29, December 2017

MUNICH, 29-Dec-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — A new study by medical researchers at LMU extends the list of tasks performed by the smallest blood cells known as platelets: At sites of infection, actively migrating platelets sweep bacteria into aggregates for disposal by … Read the full press release

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to establish 11 new Research Training Groups; €134 million for initial funding period

PRESS RELEASE -- 26, December 2017

Topics range from cyber-physical production systems to interactions between trees / €134 million for initial funding period BONN, 26-Dec-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is establishing 11 new Research Training Groups to further support early … Read the full press release

Jena Experiment: loss of biodiversity has negative consequences for many individual components and processes in ecosystems

PRESS RELEASE -- 7, December 2017

FREIBURG, 07-Dec-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — How severe is global species extinction? Are material cycles altered in an ecosystem with just a few species? In order to address these issues, the “Jena Experiment”, one of the world’s largest biodiversity experiments, was … Read the full press release

Freie Universität Berlin: Nine research projects in Berlin can enter the decisive round in the competition for the German government’s Excellence Strategy

PRESS RELEASE -- 2, October 2017

Joint press release of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Nine research projects asked to submit full proposals as part of the German government’s Excellence Strategy.  BERLIN, 02-Oct-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Freie Universität … Read the full press release

Technical University Munich (TUM) developed supramolecular materials that disintegrate at a predetermined time

PRESS RELEASE -- 24, July 2017

Self-disposing supramolecular materials with a tunable lifetime MUNICH, 24-Jul-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Materials that assemble themselves and then simply disappear at the end of their lifetime are quite common in nature. Researchers at the Technical University Munich (TUM) have now successfully … Read the full press release