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.

Felix Lehmkühler at the instrument MID (Materials Imaging & Dynamics) of European XFEL where the experiments were done.

European XFEL elicits secrets from an important nanogel

An international team at the world’s largest X-ray laser European XFEL at Schenefeld near Hamburg has scrutinised the properties of an important nanogel that is often used in medicine to release drugs in a targeted and controlled manner at the desired location in a patient's body. The team now published the results in the journal Science Advances.

Apr 19, 2024, 10:00:00 PM

dried blessed thistle (Cnicus benedictus)

New compound from blessed thistle promotes functional nerve regeneration

Researchers from the University of Cologne have found a new use for Cnicin, a substance produced in blessed thistle. Clinical studies are being planned / publication in ‘Phytomedicine’

Apr 19, 2024, 7:15:32 PM

Mycorrhizal network using the example of Monotropa uniflora, here associated with tree root fungi. Original illustration from the publication modified and supplemented.

Mycoheterotrophic plants as a key to the "Wood Wide Web"

Bayreuth researchers shed light on the natural evidence for the occurrence and function of networks of fungi and plants - so-called mycorrhizal networks. Through this "Wood Wide Web", plants can exchange resources and even information with each other. The researchers have now reported on this in the journal "NATURE Plants".

Apr 19, 2024, 2:53:37 PM

In South Korea, research by ZALF and BTU Cottbus shows how adapting planting times and using the CO2 fertilization effect can increase yields of spring potatoes by up to 60 percent.

Climate change affects potato cultivation in South Korea

A new study published in the journal "Potato Research" presents results on the response of spring and summer potatoes to climate change in South Korea. The study, conducted by scientists from the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, investigates the effects of global warming on the potato crop and presents adaptation strategies.

Apr 19, 2024, 1:39:17 PM

Fig. b: Collagen matrix after treatment with UVA light and riboflavin. Structure with cavities and pores of 1 - 20 µm supports cellular processes. Reaction to freeze-drying (Fig. d) indicates high resistance to mechanical stress.

Collagen: Researchers at the NMI unravel how it works in medical treatment

Scientists at the NMI have unraveled the mode of action of collagen crosslinking in the treatment of corneal defects and the results open up new opportunities for the use of collagen in medicine.

Apr 19, 2024, 1:07:15 PM

Dr Nils Lehnen, Senior Physician at the Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology and Paediatric Neuroradiology at the UKB

ChatGPT extracts data for ischaemic stroke almost perfectly - Useful for thrombectomy data transfer

In an ischaemic stroke, an artery in the brain is blocked by blood clots and the brain cells can no longer be supplied with blood as a result. Doctors must therefore act quickly and unblock the artery with the help of catheters. During the so-called mechanical thrombectomy, a lot of data has to be recorded and then transferred to various registers. Dr Nils Lehnen, senior physician at the Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology and Paediatric Neuroradiology at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), has now discovered in a study that ChatGPT could be a great help in this data transfer. The results have now been published in the specialist journal "RADIOLOGY".

Apr 19, 2024, 12:24:05 PM