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22MAY 2013
Department of Biology
Full throttle with malfunctioning brakes
FAU researchers find cause and possible treatment method for particularly aggressive leukaemia in children Cancers in children are always dramatic – especially when the tumours are particularly hard to treat. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now found a possible key to treating a very aggressive type of leukaemia known as MLL leukaemia. The researchers […]FAU researchers find cause and possible treatment method for particularly aggressive leukaemia in children Cancers in children are always dramatic – especially when the tumours are particularly hard to treat. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now found a possible key to treating a very aggressive type of leukaemia known as MLL leukaemia. The researchers […]
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07MAY 2013
Department of Biology
An aquarium in space – FAU researchers investigate ecosystem in zero gravity
Its size and weight is similar to a crate of beer but this metal container is packed with sophisticated technology for small plants and animals: researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the University of Hohenheim are sending an artificial ecosystem into space on 19 April 2013 to discover how cells and organs react to zero […]
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07JAN 2013
Department of Biology
A bug’s life: more than 15,000 species of arthropods on one hectare of rain forest
FAU researchers discover unexpected diversity of arthropod species Approximately 25,000 species of arthropods live on 6000 hectares of rain forest – more than 60 percent of these can actually be found on only one hectare. This is one of the results of the international project ‘Investigating Biodiversity of Soil and Canopy Arthropods – IBISCA’, in […]
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21MAY 2012
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Research on Parkinson’s disease and leukaemia
New Bavarian research network finances FAU projects Two projects of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will be funded by the recently established Bavarian Research Network for Molecular Biosystems (BioSysNet): Dr. Beate Winner from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research (IZKF) is investigating disrupted connections between nerve cells in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Prof. Dr. Robert […]New Bavarian research network finances FAU projects Two projects of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will be funded by the recently established Bavarian Research Network for Molecular Biosystems (BioSysNet): Dr. Beate Winner from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research (IZKF) is investigating disrupted connections between nerve cells in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Prof. Dr. Robert […]
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04APR 2012
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Plants defend themselves against salmonella
Research scientists develop new approach to researching infections Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have transferred elements of salmonella known as effectors into tobacco plants. In doing so, they hope to explore how diseases and infections are spreading in both humans and animals. As strange as this may sound; there is good reason for doing so: […]
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29FEB 2012
Department of Biology
How antibodies work
Immune defence and autoaggression are controlled by the same mechanism For humans, antibodies are essential to life: they destroy pathogens and can therefore be used in medicine, for example for therapies to fight cancer. However, sometimes their destructive mechanisms also turn against the very body they inhabit. This results in autoimmune diseases such as multiple […]
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