Research

FAU researchers identify inactive genes that could help treat cancer.

FAU researchers create the world's first white LEDs based on fluorescent proteins.

FAU researchers have discovered that natural heavy metal poisoning led to an increase in deformities in plankton, causing a catastrophe.

FAU researchers have launched www.emobilisten.de to provide information about electromobility to the general public. By working together to develop new solutions they aim to convince people of the benefits of this form of mobility.

The Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) presented the eighth SAOT Young Researcher Award in Optical Technologies (YRA). The winner was Dr. Alexander Jesacher from the Division of Biomedical Physics at the Medical University of Innsbruck.

If the hearts of zebrafish or amphibians become damaged and cardiac muscle cells die, their remaining cardiac muscle cells can reproduce, allowing the heart to regenerate. Researchers at FAU have now found a possible explanation as to why this does not happen in humans.

The protein collagen is the main component of human skin. FAU researchers have established which mechanisms are responsible for collagen's mechanical stiffness adapting automatically to external stress.

FAU biologists' analysis of 5300 beetle genes leads to surprising findings.

In the journal 'Nature', researchers from FAU and the University of Bayreuth report on nanofibres which make energy transfer over several micrometres possible at room temperature for the first time.

Did dinosaurs suffer from worms? An international team led by researchers at FAU has recently examined the relationship between fossilised flatworms and the evolution of their hosts.