Research

Hydrogen sulphide regulates vital biological processes Scientists from Bioinorganic Chemistry at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have broken new ground by researching the role and function of hydrogen sulphide in the human body. The findings presented by the researchers from...

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 Rese...

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 ...

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 bo...

Geologists demonstrate that volcanic arcs are fed by rapid fluid pulses In the depths of the earth, it is anything but peaceful: Large quantities of liquids carve their way through the rock as fluids, causing magma to form. A research team which the geologist Prof. Dr. Reiner Klemd from Friedrich-A...

FAU astrophysicists get involved in the Helmholtz Alliance Over the next five years the Helmholz Association is to provide around ten million euros in funding for a new Helmholz Alliance in the field of astroparticle physics. Scientists belonging to the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (EC...

Brownian movement under close observation The slightest trembling can tell us something. Tiny particles, dissolved in liquid, register what is going on in their surroundings, and react as a result. Without sophisticated measuring techniques and high precision instruments it is impossible to decode ...

International research alliance supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The research alliance comprising researchers from the Department for Genetics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), led by Prof. Dr. Falk Nimmerjahn, and Harvard University, Oxford University an...

An oak in the Botanic Gardens of FAU brings together science, technology and nature A 150-year-old oak tree in Erlangen has been given a “voice”. It has been equipped with cutting-edge measuring equipment to report on its existence – whilst supplying data for the “Bäume in Klimawandel” research pr...

FAU researchers seek to improve drug design The effects of millions of natural biological compounds are now known to modern health and pharmaceutical research. If, for instance, the body’s levels of protein A are too low or too high, reaction B or C can occur. Pharmacists use this knowledge to prod...