Press Releases
When sugar damages kidneys
New hope for diabetes patients with kidney disease. By researchers from BIOSS and the University Medical Center Freiburg
Climate Change and Marine Mammals: Winners and Losers
Study on the Effects of Global Warming on the Diversity and Distribution of Whales, Dolphins and Pinnipeds
University of Freiburg Successful in Quality Pact for Instruction
Approval of Six Million Euro Proposal for Further Development of Instruction and Course Offerings
Thinking outside the column
New insights into brain structure reveal new facets of information processing in the nervous system
Plaster Replicas and Originals of Ancient Art
Invitation to Special Exhibition: Reopening of the Archaeological Collection of the University of Freiburg
Masked fears
Simulations of fear processes can explain their origin in the brain – and why it is so difficult to overcome them
How clear is our view of brain activity?
Scientists reveal a large influence of filtering algorithms on results in brain imaging
Great Honor for Researchers of the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS
Journal Science Signaling Ranks Publication Among “Signaling Breakthroughs of the Year 2010”
The Nervous System as a Three-Dimensional Map
Freiburg Research Team Creates First Complete Map of Special Connections of Nerve Cells in Zebrafish – Publication in „Nature Communications“
The Salt in the Soup of Evolution
Biologists Study New Metabolic Pathways and their Origin in Microorganisms
New evidence for climate impacts on ancient societies
Annual-resolved European summer climate has, for the first time ever, been reconstructed over the past 2,500 years. Tree rings reveal possible links between past climate variability and changes in human history. Climate change coincided with periods of socioeconomic, cultural and political turmoil associated with the Barbarian Migrations, the Black Death and Thirty Years’ War.