https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/thema/chemistry/ Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität | Neues aus Forschung, Lehre, Studium Tue, 05 May 2026 13:41:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cropped-fav_guo-blau-32x32.jpg https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/thema/chemistry/ 32 32 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/how-life-could-arise-from-molecules/ Tue, 05 May 2026 13:41:19 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=88274 Many properties of molecules cannot be predicted from the properties of the atoms they consist of these properties only emerge when they are combined – a phenomenon known in science […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/three-rmu-early-career-researchers-from-frankfurt-and-mainz-are-finalists-for-the-boehringer-ingelheim-prize/ Mon, 04 May 2026 19:55:07 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=88265 Dr Taniya Chakraborty from the Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University, and Dr Julian Wagner from the Excellence Cluster Cardiopulmonary Institute, Goethe University, as well as Josef Shin, MD PhD, from […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/science-council-endorses-hbs-i-neutron-source/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:20:28 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87826 The German Science and Humanities Council has highlighted the scientific and strategic importance of the planned High Brilliance Neutron Source, in the development of which Goethe University is involved. In […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/contraception-without-hormones-goethe-university-researches-alternatives-to-the-pill/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:54:07 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87632 German Federal Ministry of Research funds PREVENT project in Frankfurt, Bonn and Munich with €3 million The “pill” was once hailed as medical revolution, later it became the most widely […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/from-palm-oil-to-designer-enzymes-frankfurt-researchers-reprogram-yeast-cells/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:36:26 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=87041 Protein Engineering Enables Sustainable Production of Industrially Important Fatty Acids Fatty acids derived from palm oil and coconut oil are found in countless everyday products, but their extraction drives deforestation. […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/rna-researchers-from-frankfurt-and-grenoble-receive-franco-german-science-award/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:59:02 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84586 RNA researchers Prof. Stefanie Kaiser from Goethe University Frankfurt and Dr. Eva Kowalinski from EMBL in Grenoble, France, have been awarded the Franco-German science prize “Prix Forcheurs Jean-Marie Lehn”. The […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/pfas-a-novel-path-to-breaking-down-forever-chemicals/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:01:03 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=84380 New Catalyst Developed at Goethe University Frankfurt Capable of Cleaving Strong Carbon-Fluorine Bonds – Potential Use in Pharmaceutical Production Chemists at Goethe University Frankfurt have developed a catalyst capable of […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/setting-sail-on-the-main-river-in-the-spring-sun-boat-trip-for-early-career-researchers-of-the-rmu-alliance/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:21:49 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=83716 On the afternoon of April 25, 2025, twenty doctoral candidates and postdocs from the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) gathered at Frankfurt’s historic Eiserner Steg bridge – just as the cloud started […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/how-will-we-store-energy-from-the-sun-in-the-future-a-completely-new-technology-is-being-researched-at-goethe-university/ Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:04:03 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=81665 In the future, our economy will use more and more renewable energy and therefore effective, high-capacity energy storage technologies will be essential – for example a completely new technology like […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/symbiosis-in-ancient-corals/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:17:03 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=81353 Analysis of nitrogen isotope reveals the earliest known evidence of photosymbiosis in corals A research team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and Goethe […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/erc-starting-grant-for-natural-substance-researcher-eric-helfrich-from-goethe-university-and-loewe-centre-tbg/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:54:28 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=80854 Artificial intelligence aids the discovery of new active substances in bacteria Chemical biologist Eric Helfrich, Professor of Natural Substance Genomics at Goethe University Frankfurt and co-spokesperson of the LOEWE Centre […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/visiting-fellowship-lecture-series-investigating-proteins-and-their-environment/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:10:42 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=79739 Carol Robinson, who works as a professor at Oxford University / UK, has revolutionized mass spectrometry. It is thanks to her work that proteins now can be studied in their […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/novel-electrochemical-sensor-detects-dangerous-bacteria/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:20:02 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=79446 Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt and Kiel University have developed a novel sensor for the detection of bacteria. It is based on a chip with an innovative surface coating. This […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/meet-the-scientists-researching-at-goethe-university-pharmacist-maike-windbergs/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:04:21 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=78440 We wanted to know: Why did our scientists want to become scientists in the first place? What are they working on, and what do they still want to discover? You […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/dont-be-scared-of-technology-or-data-based-research/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 09:54:07 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=78693 Prof. Ingrid Fleming, Director of Goethe University Frankfurt’s “Institute for Vascular Signalling” and a member of the Cardio-Pulmonary Institute’s (CPI) faculty, is researching the way the cardiovascular system functions and […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/industry-collaboration-funds-goethe-universitys-development-of-rna-drugs-against-dengue-fever-virus/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:41:56 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=78684 Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt, together with partners from the life science and pharmaceutical industries, are launching a project to develop a new class of drugs against flaviviruses, the cause […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/ultra-high-field-spectrometer-newly-developed-device-for-cutting-edge-research-inaugurated-at-goethe-university-frankfurt/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 15:25:28 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=77279 One of the world’s largest nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers was inaugurated at Goethe University Frankfurt on October 30, 2023. The ceremony was attended by Goethe University President Enrico Schleiff, Federal […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/meet-the-scientists-researching-at-goethe-university-chemist-martin-grininger/ Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:01:06 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=76769 We wanted to know: Why did our scientists want to become scientists in the first place? What are they working on, and what do they still want to discover? You […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/four-early-career-researchers-honored-with-2023-frankfurt-prize-for-environment-and-sustainability/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:13:07 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=73313 Award recognizes work in the field of environmental and socio-ecological sustainability research at Goethe University Frankfurt. This year’s „Frankfurter Preis für Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit 2023” [Frankfurt Prize for Environment and […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/a-new-biosynthesis-method-has-been-developed-to-produce-antibiotics-from-natural-substances/ Wed, 03 Aug 2022 09:17:24 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=60865 The use of the element fluorine to modify active substances is an important tool in modern drug development. A team at Goethe University Frankfurt has now achieved an important “first” […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/new-substance-classes-for-nanomaterials-nano-spheres-and-diamond-slivers-made-of-silicon-and-germanium/ Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:08:34 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=52470 Chemists at Goethe University Frankfurt have developed two new classes of materials in the field of nanomaterials and investigated them together with their cooperation partners at the University of Bonn: […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/sars-cov-2-achilles-heel-of-viral-rna/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:55:25 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=52026 Certain regions of the SARS-CoV-2 genome might be a suitable target for future drugs. This is what researchers at Goethe University, together with their collaborators in the international COVID-19-NMR consortium, […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/funding-decision-on-four-collaborative-research-centres-at-goethe-university-new-crc-for-basic-research-in-mathematics/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:30:03 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=51337 Researching intricate geometric and arithmetic objects is the goal of the new Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 326 (TRR 326), coordinated by Goethe University. On 25th May, the German Research Foundation […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/sars-cov-2-research-accelerator-worldwide-network-headed-by-goethe-university-develops-protocols-for-laboratories/ Tue, 11 May 2021 06:38:15 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=50834 For the development of drugs or vaccines against COVID-19, research needs virus proteins of high purity. For most of the SARS-CoV-2 proteins, scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt and a total […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/sars-cov-2-research-second-possible-effective-mechanism-of-remdesivir-discovered/ Mon, 10 May 2021 13:03:35 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=50830 When a cell is infected, SARS-CoV-2 not only causes the host cell to produce new virus particles. The virus also suppresses host cell defence mechanisms. The virus protein nsP3 plays […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/how-the-3-d-structure-of-eye-lens-proteins-is-formed/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:32:41 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=49090 Chemical bonds within the eye-lens protein gamma-B crystallin hold the protein together and are therefore important for the function of the protein within the lens. Contrary to previous assumptions, some […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/trna-fragments-are-involved-in-poststroke-immune-reactions/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:27:02 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=48190 An ischemic stroke is an extreme disturbance of the homeostasis of brain and body. Among other things, the immune system triggers an inflammatory reaction that can either overshoot or turn […]]]> https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/en/english/chemistry-how-nitrogen-is-transferred-by-a-catalyst/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 10:15:55 +0000 https://aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/?p=47655 Catalysts with a metal-nitrogen bond can transfer nitrogen to organic molecules. In this process short-lived molecular species are formed, whose properties critically determine the course of the reaction and product […]]]>