News
| Ernst Bamberg receives Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
February 2019. Recognition for contribution to the discovery and development of optogenetics |
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| Protective role of an lncRNA against atherosclerosis |
January 2019. Deficiency of the long non-coding RNA MALAT1 promotes atherosclerosis and plaque inflammation |
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| BoTox toxin turned into a precision research tool |
January 2019. Photoactivatable botulinum toxin for inducible control of neurotransmission |
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| Plant-specific ribosome biogenesis factors |
January 2019. Discovery of plant-specific ribosome biogenesis factors with essential function in rRNA processing |
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| What fuels memory? |
January 2019. Mitochondria are essential for local protein synthesis and synaptic plasticity in neurons |
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| Development of a synthetic TAP inhibitor that can be cleaved by light |
December 2018. Light-controlled TAP inhibitor expands the repertoire of chemical intervention tools for the study of immunological processes |
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| High quality photoswitchable regulatory RNA tool developed |
December 2018. New riboswitch aptamer with selective and isomer-specific binding to a novel photoswitchable ligand suitable for biological applications |
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| New insights into the dynamics of riboswitch activation |
December 2018. Structure-guided fluorescence labelling reveals a two-step binding mechanism of neomycin to its RNA aptamer |
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| DFG approves CRC 1361 on DNA repair and genome stability |
December 2018. Scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University, IMB, TU Darmstadt, LMU and Goethe University have joined forces to establish a new research hub in this biomedically highly relevant field |
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| Four CEF members are among the most highly cited researchers worldwide |
November 2018. Ivan Dikic, Stefanie Dimmeler, Stefan Knapp and Ernst Stelzer belong to the top 1% scientists cited |
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