Tag: Biology research
Better climate, less hunger – the photosynthesis revolution
Improvement in photosynthesis An international research project relies on genetic methods to improve photosynthesis in plants. (Photo: Imago [M]) Dusseldorf Plants are small power plants. From sunlight, water and carbon…
Start of the World Conservation Conference in Montréal: That’s what it’s all about
Berlin Negotiations for a global agreement to protect species and biodiversity begin this Wednesday at the World Conservation Conference in Montreal, Canada. While the climate crisis is now a global…
Medicine Nobel Prize winner Südhof on the question of how the brain works
Dusseldorf The German-American scientist Südhof has uncovered how brain cells communicate with each other. “All functions in the brain – from sight, smell and decision-making to feelings – operate through…
Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to Svante Pääbo
prizewinner Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. (Photo: dpa) This year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to the Swede Svante Pääbo, who researches in…
Medicine Nobel laureate at The Spark on the brain
Thomas Südhof (left) in an interview with Handelsblatt Editor-in-Chief Sebastian Matthes “In science, if you assume you’re going to win a Nobel Prize, you’re in the wrong profession.” (Photo: Marc-Steffen…
Losing weight with brain jogging – is that possible?
The author Tillmann Prüfer is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”. I’ve read that the food we eat can affect the brain. The organ that you have in your…
Key find leads to the origin of the coronavirus
test lab in China The corona virus first appeared in the metropolis of Wuhan. (Photo: imago images/Xinhua) Berlin The current pandemic is not a natural disaster. It didn’t just come…
5 ways corona infection can harm the brain
Section of a cell in the olfactory mucosa A large number of intact SARS-CoV-2 particles (red) are found both inside the cell and on the cell processes, the cilia are…