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How does the immune system manage to fight invasive pathogens without damaging the body? And why does it sometimes turn against the body after all? A team from the Chair of Genetics at FAU has been exploring these questions together with the university hospitals in Erlangen and Regensburg. Certai...

After 182 days, the x-ray telescope eROSITA on board the Spectrum-X-Gamma space probe has completed its first complete survey of the sky. This new map of the hot, energetic universe includes more than one million objects, effectively doubling the number of known x-ray sources discovered in the 60 ye...

The International Office of the Faculty of Sciences invites all interested young researchers to the next Brown Bag Break on Nov. 13th, 2018, 5-7 pm. The event will take place at lecture hall H2 at the Faculty of Sciences, Egerlandstraße 3, 91058 Erlangen. Get to know researchers of different disc...

Many of the problems associated with climate change could be solved if we could make it possible for vehicles to run on fuel made from water and carbon dioxide. Prof. Dr Karsten Meyer of the Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry at FAU has won the 2017 Ludwig Mond Award of the British Royal Socie...