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How do muscle and tendon connections last a lifetime?
Tipping the scales
Traffic Jam in the Cell: How Are Proteins Assigned to Specific Transporters?
"Don’t worry! We have the viruses under control": Series: ’Under wraps at the University of Münster’
A cellular protein as a "Gas Pump Attendant" of Cancer Development
Mount Kilimanjaro: Ecosystems in Global Change
The pharmacological ’fingerprint’ of the fourth opioid receptor
Looking into the fly’s brain
Duckweed: The low-down on a tiny plant
Hearing like a dinosaur
Discovery of a new heart muscle component
Protein BRCA1 as a Stress Coach
Purple bacteria visualize ’big eaters’
Revealing the secret of the vacuum for the first time
From dandelion to car tyre
One term - three different interpretations
Cool adaptations to the cold
Life Sciences
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Life Sciences - Pharmacology - 04.04.2019

Muscles are connected to tendons to power animal movements such as running, swimming or flying. Forces are produced by contractile chains of the proteins actin and myosin, which are pulling on muscle-tendon connections called attachments. During animal development, these muscle-tendon attachments must be established such that they resist high mechanical forces for the entire life of the animal.
Life Sciences - Chemistry - 03.04.2019

Human cells have a sophisticated regulatory system at their disposal: labeling proteins with the small molecule ubiquitin. In a first, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has succeeded in marking proteins with ubiquitin in a targeted manner, in test tubes as well as in living cells.
Health - Life Sciences - 03.04.2019
Unit approved
A new international research group aims to develop new approaches to prevent and treat cytomegalovirus infection. Lars Dölken, a virology expert from Würzburg, is the research unit's spokesman. "Cytomegalovirus, beware of this new research group!" This could be the motto of a new research unit recently approved by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Life Sciences - Transport - 01.04.2019

Heidelberg researchers comprehensively identify the composition of transport vesicles for the first time A fundamental cellular mechanism ensures that proteins are transported to the places they are needed in the cells. So-called vesicles are responsible for that transport. Determining their composition has been difficult up to now, not least because of their short life span.
Life Sciences - Health - 01.04.2019

Stephan Ludwig puzzles over a host of questions. There is nothing unusual about that when someone has a passion for science. As a molecular biologist, however, Professor Ludwig is particularly interested in one specific question which is of paramount importance: How do viruses - 'these tiny little mites', as he calls them - succeed in remodelling a somatic cell in such a way that they can reproduce inside it, making the host organism sick or even killing it? "We still know very little about the interaction between the pathogen, the cell, and the host organism.
Life Sciences - Health - 29.03.2019

03/29/2019 Scientists at the University of Würzburg have discovered a new mechanism of gene transcription in tumor cells. Their study identifies novel strategies to develop innovative anti-Cancer drugs. The cells which make up our body vary significantly. A liver cell does not look like a muscle cell and each has a unique function.
Environment - Life Sciences - 28.03.2019

03/28/2019 Land use in tropical mountain regions leads to considerable changes of biodiversity and ecological functions. The intensity of such changes is greatly affected by the climate. 2019 marks the 250 th anniversary of Alexander von Humboldt. He was one of the first naturalists to document the distribution and adaptation of species on tropical mountains in the 19 th century.
Life Sciences - 27.03.2019

Zoology research team from the Universities of Jena and Massachusetts (USA) discovers potentially primeval chewing behaviour in salamandrids Dr Egon Heiss with an Italian Crested Newt (Triturus carnifex), whose chewing behaviour was examined. Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena) The Italian Crested Newt - ' Triturus carnifex ' - eats anything and everything it can overpower.
Life Sciences - 26.03.2019

They take up little space and are easy to breed; because they are easy to look after, fruit flies or Drosophila melanogaster are used as laboratory animals in research institutes all over the world. However, that is not the only reason why they are one of the most important model organisms that are studied by geneticists.
Life Sciences - 26.03.2019

Duckweeds - for many aquatic animals like ducks and snails, a treat, but for pond owners, sometimes a thorn in the side. The tiny and fast-growing plants are of great interest to researchers, and not at least because of their industrial applications - for example, to purify wastewater or generate energy.
Life Sciences - 25.03.2019

Alligators use neural maps to localize the source of a sound the same way birds do. The results of a new study strongly suggest that dinosaurs also used this strategy, offering an additional insight into evolutionary mechanisms. The ability to identify the direction to a source of sound is a matter of survival for most animals.
Life Sciences - Health - 21.03.2019
Memory like a Sieve - Or Not
Study by Research Team at Freie Universität Led by Biology Professor Stephan Sigrist on Conditions for Improving Memory Formation in Aging Humans No 063/2019 from Mar 21, 2019 Humans are not only capable of forming memories but also recalling these memories years later. However, with advancing age many of us face difficulties with forming new memories, a process usually referred to as age-induced memory impairment.
Life Sciences - Chemistry - 20.03.2019

In order for the heart to work properly, it must exert muscular force. This involves the coordinated contraction of numerous sarcomeres, the smallest contractile units of heart muscle. Muscle contraction is brought about by the activity of conventional motor proteins, which pull on thin filaments to shorten sarcomeres.
Life Sciences - Health - 20.03.2019

03/20/2019 Two proteins work hand in hand to ensure that the tumour cells of neuroblastoma can grow at full speed. In "Nature", a Würzburg research team shows how the proteins can do this. Anyone who has ever studied the molecular basis of breast cancer will probably have heard of the abbreviation BRCA1 - this is a protein that protects the cells of breast tissue against cancer.
Health - Life Sciences - 15.03.2019

Tumors are very different at cellular and molecular level making them difficult to diagnose and treat. A team from Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Helmholtz Zentrum München has now shown that harmless purple bacteria are capable of visualizing aspects of this heterogeneity in the tumors.
Environment - Life Sciences - 15.03.2019

Wild tobacco plants gain an advantage by the timely sending of hungry caterpillars to the competition Life Plants cannot run away from animals which eat them, but many species have their own ways of defending themselves; they produce chemicals which dont do hungry creepy-crawlies any good. In this way, wild tobacco plants strike back at the caterpillars of the tobacco hawk moth.
Life Sciences - 12.03.2019

In the recently published final report of the nationwide initiative "Plant Biotechnology of the Future", a project by scientists of the University of Münster has been selected as one of six research highlights of the programme. Between 2011 and 2018, plant researchers from all over Germany worked on 27 projects with 125 subprojects - funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Mathematics - Life Sciences - 11.03.2019

As different as the term "dynamic" is used and understood in science, so diverse are the research areas of the University of Münster, in which dynamic even plays a central role in the title. Prof. Christopher Deninger and Prof. Mario Ohlberger from the Cluster of Excellence "Mathematics Münster", the lawyer Prof. Nils Jansen from the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" and the biochemist Prof. Lydia Sorokin from Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence explain what they understand by the term in their research.
Life Sciences - Environment - 25.02.2019

02/25/2019 Icefish live in an environment that should be deadly for them. Scientists have now investigated how they still manage to exist there and what evolutionary adaptations they have had to undergo in order to do so. You really don't want to have to live there: In the Arctic Ocean around the South Pole, the water temperature is just below minus two degrees.
Life Sciences - Health - 18.02.2019
Using Light to Fight Dangerous Microorganisms on Eggshells
Research project at Freie Universität Berlin to reduce microorganisms on eggshells receives grant from German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food No 040/2019 from Feb 18, 2019 The German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) is supporting the work of a research group at Freie Universität Berlin aiming to reduce the number of microorganisms on eggshells.
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