A research team from the Universities of Tübingen and Göttingen as well as from the German Center for Infection Research has investigated the mode of action of a new class of antibiotics tha... Read more
Chemists and microbiologists at Tübingen University discover sugar molecule that inhibits the growth of plants and microorganisms and is harmless to human cells ? An alternative to controver... Read more
Tübingen Neuroscientists reprogram brain cells to investigate how place memories are formed Long-term memory of specific places is stored in the brain in so-called place cells. A team of neu... Read more
Tübingen University physicists are the first to link atoms and superconductors in key step towards new hardware for quantum computers and Networks. Today’s quantum technologies are set to re... Read more
Tübingen neuroscientists develop inexpensive, self-manufactured lab equipment Laboratory equipment is one of the largest cost factors in neuroscience. However, many experiments can be perfor... Read more
Research on the effect of nerve cell stiffness on sensitivity to touch could lead to new painkillers
For many patients with chronic pain, any light touch – even just their clothes touching their skin – can be agony. Scientists at EMBL and the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neurosci... Read more
An unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway, primarily in developing countries and emerging economies. While this is expected to double the global electricity production... Read more
Wetlands are responsible for fifteen to forty per cent of the global methane flux into the atmosphere. Researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Tubingen describe a process that supp... Read more
What happens to our cognitive abilities as we age? If your think our brains go into a steady decline, research reported this week in the Journal Topics in Cognitive Science may make you thin... Read more
Researchers at the University of Arizona and University of Tübingen have made a breakthrough in retinal implant technology that could help people who have lost their sight see more than just... Read more
Tübingen researchers ask: do herbicides alter ecosystems around the world? Scant research makes it hard to prove. The number of humans on the planet has almost doubled in the past 50 years ?... Read more
A pioneering mobile device using cutting-edge nanotechnology to rapidly detect malaria infection and drug resistance could revolutionise how the disease is diagnosed and treated. Around 800,... Read more
