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An Europe-wide initiative of the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) and the Dutch Heart Foundation (DHF) is funding four projects with a cardiovascular research focus in order to achieve new approaches in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The “Shift-DCM” project led by

New special exhibition at the Forum Wissen opens on 18 April 2024   How does a “patch” for the heart work? Can we hear with light? And how can insights from basic research be used to help diagnose and treat diseases? The “Heart & Brain – understanding together” exhibition examines

Falko Mohrs, Minister of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, visited the researchers of the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging: From Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells” (MBExC) on Friday, 22 March 2024. The occasion was the continuation application to be submitted by MBExC in August to apply

Unique in the world: laboratory-grown heart tissue has been implanted in patients with heart failure as part of a study conducted by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH). The so-called heart patch is intended to strengthen the heart permanently and has the potential for

Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (EKFS) supports new research center for optogenetic therapies with 37.4 million euros over ten years at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG). The state of Lower Saxony is strongly supporting the establishment of the center and, together with the UMG, is holding out the prospect of up to

Researchers measure heat flow: from active metabolic forces inside cell to flickering cell membrane   Entropy is often associated with disorder and chaos, but in biology it is related to energy efficiency and is closely linked to metabolism, the set of chemical reactions that sustain life. An international research team

For life on Earth, it is essential that plants carry out photosynthesis and ultimately produce oxygen and chemical energy with the help of sunlight. Researchers from Göttingen and Hannover have now succeeded for the first time in visualizing the copying machine of chloroplasts, the RNA polymerase PEP, in high-resolution 3D.

Lipids play an important role in the development of Alzheimer’s dementia. However, more details about this process were previously unknown. A team of scientists from Göttingen, Jülich, and Düsseldorf has now determined the atomic structures of lipid-fibril complexes for the first time.   Link to the press release article (in

„Herz und Hirn gemeinsam im Fokus“ (Heart and Brain in focus together) is the title of the public lecture series of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen in the winter semester 2023/2024. In the series, MBExC scientists gave comprehensive insights into

To date, hearing impairment can only be treated with medical devices such as hearing aids or cochlear implants. Gene therapy could offer an alternative in certain cases in the future. Building on pioneering work by researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), children suffering from a hearing impairment due