A misfolded protein facilitates reliable diagnosis even in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease in body fluids. Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that is usually diagnosed in its ...

Projects are funded in electrical engineering and information technology, chemistry and psychology. Receiving a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) is one of the most prestigious awards in ...

Unlike hitherto assumed, the cause is not to be found in the brain. It is not the brain that determines if people are right or left-handed, but the spinal cord. This has been inferred from the ...

We all know what it’s like when the penny suddenly drops. Animals too experience such moments of insight. They could prove useful for research, according to Ekrem Dere. For generations, researchers ...

Searching for clues and leads is still something investigators have to do themselves. But if they find creepy-crawlies at the crime scene, these creatures can be of great help. First come the ...

Clara Saraceno will use an ERC Consolidator Grant to develop new methods for adjusting air plasma composition using ultrafast lasers. This revolutionizes light generation, but also other areas.

Formaldehyde can inhibit enzymes that produce hydrogen particularly efficiently. Researchers from Bochum have discovered how this can be prevented. Formaldehyde is known as a preservative, among other ...

Using ammonia is regarded as a promising method of transporting hydrogen. However, an efficient process is also needed to convert it back into hydrogen and nitrogen. An international research team has ...

People with ataxia often experience stress-induced motor incoordination. Researchers have now discovered which receptor is responsible for this. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, ...

Newly detected [FeFe]-hydrogenase from a thermophilic bacterium is not degraded by oxygen. In the absence of air, microorganisms produce hydrogen using an enzyme called [FeFe]-hydrogenase, one of the ...

Drones shouldn’t be able to fly over airports and should have a unique serial number. In theory. Researchers from Bochum and Saarbrücken have detected security vulnerabilities, some of them serious, ...

Researchers have created a miniature biocatalyst for hydrogen production. It works efficiently with electrons from photosynthesis. Natural hydrogen-producing enzymes are large and extremely sensitive ...