Press Releases

Drugs that Prevent Liver Failure ¹

Physicist Jens Timmer Aims to Develop Drugs that Protect the Organ as a Project Partner in a Consortium

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Moss detects Air Pollution²

EU-Project develops peat moss as novel biological indicator

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Freiburg Researchers Unravel Insulin Action on a Metabolic Master Regulator³

Systems Biology Opens Up New Possibilities for Targeted Interventions in Insulin Metabolism Signaling Networks

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Hearing Light⁴

Scientists Want to Use Micro-Light-Emitting Diodes to Improve Implants for People with Hearing Impairments

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Excellent Young Researcher⁵

Freiburg Junior Professor Dr. Pieter Samyn to Receive Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2012

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Trinational Research and Teaching Program⁶

Freiburg Professor to Participate in Upper Rhine Network for Synthetic Biology

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The origin of photosynthesis revealed by a "living fossil"⁷

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Finnish Doctoral Candidate to Receive Barbara Hobom Prize⁸

Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Awards Elina Kiss from the Spemann Graduate School

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The “Round Table” of Top Scientists⁹

Nikolaus Pfanner Has Been Granted a Research Award and Fellowship by the Hector Foundation II

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Better Image Contrast for Microscopes¹⁰

Researchers Achieve Better Illumination of Biological Samples – Publication in Nature Communications

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Charges going astray¹¹

Scientists in Freiburg have discovered new transfer paths for electrons

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Moss well invested¹²

Contract between Freiburg Biobank of Plant Biotechnology and Greenovation Biotech GmbH

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Genetics and Sociality ¹³

Researchers show in the journal “PNAS” how friends can relieve stress

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Divide and compute¹⁴

Scientists find explanation for special wiring structure between two brain regions

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Biological Model for Industrial Fertilizer¹⁵

Team of researchers identifies the core of the FeMo Cofactor

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Harvard Goes Freiburg¹⁶

Harvard University Launches Pilot Project at University of Freiburg – First Partnership of its Kind

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Crippling rhythms of the brain ¹⁷

Network model reveals new insights into causes and possible treatments of Parkinson’s disease

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BIOSS Accepting Applications for Award for the Promotion of Women¹⁸

Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Helps Launch Careers with Barbara Hobom Prize

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Design Award for High-Tech Helmet¹⁹

Freiburg Research Team Receives Internationally Recognized “red dot award”

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Adjusting to high temperatures ²⁰

Researchers at the University of Freiburg have discovered a multifunctional enzyme in the metabolism

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