FAU researchers make antibodies more effective
Together with research groups from Sweden and Croatia, a team of researchers at FAU led by biologist Prof. Dr. Falk Nimmerjahn has discovered how to create particularly effective antibodies using sugar. Their findings have been published in the journal...
How does the sugar get into the beet? This question has been investigated by researchers at FAU’s Division of Molecular Plant Physiology in collaboration with colleagues from the universities of Kaiserslautern, Cologne and Würzburg, and the companies Südzucker AG and KWS Saat AG. They have discovere...
Scientists at FAU, Germany, awarded $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the crop yield of the cassava plant
Cassava, also known as manioc, provides the basic diet for more than half a billion people. It is the most important food source throughout much of the tropica...
FAU researchers have discovered that tumour cells can hide from antibody therapy in bone marrow. Scientists from the Division of Genetics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in collaboration with Universitätsklinikum Erlangen have made a breakthrough discovery in cancer resear...
Junior researchers explore the properties of cell membranes
A great success for FAU: the German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new Research Training Group (‘Dynamic Interactions at Biological Membranes – from Single Molecules to Tissue’ – RTG1962) at FAU in which junior researchers take a...
The IPEX syndrome is a rare and cruel disease that affects newborns and infants in particular. The young patients suffer from severe diarrhoea, diabetes, dermatitis, anaemia, pneumonia, and hepatitis, often simultaneously. A defect in the immune system is the cause of this syndrome. A team led by Pr...
Defence cells direct bone resorption
Joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis are among the autoimmune diseases which affect a steadily growing segment of society. They involve painful inflammation and can in the worst case even lead to the destruction of the joints. Researchers led by Prof. Dr....
FAU researchers find cause and possible treatment method for particularly aggressive leukaemia in children
Cancers in children are always dramatic – especially when the tumours are particularly hard to treat. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now found a po...
Its size and weight is similar to a crate of beer but this metal container is packed with sophisticated technology for small plants and animals: researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the University of Hohenheim are sending an artificial ecosystem into space on 19...
FAU researchers discover unexpected diversity of arthropod species
Approximately 25,000 species of arthropods live on 6000 hectares of rain forest – more than 60 percent of these can actually be found on only one hectare. This is one of the results of the international project ‘Investigating Biodiv...
