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Archaeologists from Goethe University will be returning to the Urals for further research work. In collaboration with researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Russian colleagues, they want to find…
Insulators that are conducting at their edges hold promise for interesting technological applications. However, until now their characteristics have not been fully understood. Physicists at Goethe University have now modelled…
Diamonds are messengers from Earth’s interior. A portion of the rare gem, which is very small but important for researchers, contains inclusions from the earth’s lower mantle. One of the…
To eat what grows locally – today’s dietary trend was every day’s practice for prehistoric humans. Studying fossil tooth enamel, German researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt and the Senckenberg research…
Goethe University has joined ranks with universities in Milan, Lyon and Birmingham to form an alliance of European universities for more intensive cooperation in the future. In February they will…
The African Studies Rhine-Main initiative of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Goethe University Frankfurt launches its first joint research project on „Africans in the Rhine-Main region: an African linguistic…
Economist Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln awarded € 1.6 million ERC Consolidator Grant. Why do some groups behave differently in the labour market than others? What determines labour market success? And which effect…
Along with a warming climate and intensified human activities, recent water storage in global landlocked basins has undergone a widespread decline. A new study reveals this decline has aggravated local…
Every year, a list is published of the top one percent of researchers worldwide, based on the frequency with which their work is cited by other scientists according to data…
A team of scientists, led by Dr Sietske Batenburg at the University of Oxford’s Department of Earth Sciences, in close collaboration with Goethe University and other German and UK institutions,…
For decades it was assumed that protein channels and protein pumps fulfilled completely different functions and worked independently of each other. Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt and University Groningen have…
How predictive are animal models for the human body? Which human organs can be recreated in vitro? How can personalized medicine benefit from patient-specific organ systems in the future? These…
“Wasps are important ecological regulators,” states biologist Bruno Streit, senior professor for Ecology and Evolution at Goethe University, “but who thinks of that when they are crawling over your plum…
The observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii is world-famous. Less well-known is the fact that the Hawaiian Islands are home to one of the leading institutes for cosmochemistry, the Institute for…
In order to simulate double neutron star systems, the Frankfurt physicist Professor Luciano Rezzolla will be allotted 102 million CPU hours on the supercomputer “superMUC” at the Leibniz computing centre…
Whether defective cells in the body will live or die is determined by a sophisticated control system. Death receptors play important roles in this system and translate information from outside…
How does our nervous system motivate us to get off the sofa and walk to the fridge, or even to the supermarket, to get food? A research team led by…
Once an SPD voter, always an SPD voter? This kind of consistency in voting behaviour is long gone. But what does the decreasing alignment of voters with political parties mean…
Patients with rare diseases often go through a long history of suffering before finally receiving an accurate diagnosis. One reason for this is that the patient information necessary for research…
FRANKFURT. Robert Tampé, Director of the Institute of Biochemistry at Goethe University, has received € 1.5 million from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a Reinhart Koselleck project. Through this…
One of the outstanding mysteries of the cerebral cortex is how individual neurons develop the proper synaptic connections to form large-scale, distributed networks. Now, an international team of scientists including…
3D structure of an NRPS docking domain pair. The docking domains of NRPS B (green) connects to the fitting docking domain of NRPS C (magenta) via a β-leaflet. Microorganisms often…
Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, will hold the Visiting Professorship of Financial History at Goethe University Frankfurt’s House of Finance next year. The professorship is endowed by Metzler Bank…
With their joint application for an excellence cluster, Goethe University Frankfurt and Justus-Liebig-University Giessen asserted themselves successfully against strong competition. The German Research Foundation announced on 27th September, that the…
Following ten years at the renowned University of California San Diego (UCSD), cardiovascular researcher Dr. Nuno Guimarães Camboa is coming to Goethe University. He was lured by the DZHK (German…
A new supercomputer, on course to set new standards in the field of green IT, is currently being developed at Goethe University under the leadership of Professor Volker Lindenstruth (professorship…
The geoscientist Frank Brenker and his team will be among the first scientists to examine material from the asteroid Ryugu. It is currently being orbited by the Japanese aerospace agency…
Systemic inflammatory diseases, such as lupus, often cause cardiac damage that goes undetected. An international research team headed by the Institute for Experimental and Translational Cardiovascular Imaging at the University…
Körber Foundation’s German Thesis Award for comparison of poverty trends in Germany and the United Kingdom. In Germany, the risk of poverty has increased since the 1990s while in Great…
The University of Jos will offer a master’s degree in film archiving and film culture modelled on Goethe University programme. A Frankfurt master programme serves as an international prototype: With…
Function and homeostasis of the brain relies on communication between the complex network of cells, which compose this organ. Consequently, development of the different groups of cells in the brain…
Are people with more money and education dominating and less warm? A social-psychological study at Goethe University scrutinizes stereotypes. How is our behavior influenced by our social class? Sociology has…
Once again, researchers at Goethe University were successful in the competition for the prestigious starting grants from the European Research Council (ERC): Dr Christian Münch from the Institute of Biochemistry…
Climate researcher Joachim Curtius from the Goethe University on the effects of this record-breaking summer, their human influence, and the outlook for the future In view of the extreme drought…
Hereditary angioedema is a chronic disorder that can sometimes be life-threatening. Now, a new drug therapy has been successfully tested in an international study headed by the University Hospital Frankfurt.…
Range of applications for silicones on the increase thanks to modular, combinable building blocks. Silicones are synthetic materials used in a broad range of applications. Thanks to the stability of…
National and regional governments pledge total of around € 97 million for LOEWE Centre “Frankfurt Cancer Institute”. Goethe University has a new LOEWE Centre under its belt – together with…
Comparison of billions of theoretical models with gravitational waves results in the answer to an old riddle How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen…
It is quite obvious that inflation may affect individuals differently. However, the extent to which the rate of inflation in the EU’s Member States disadvantages poorer individuals has now been…
Even in adult brains, new neurons are generated throughout a lifetime. In a publication in the scientific journal PNAS, a research group led by Goethe University describes plastic changes of…
The theoretical physicist Hannah Petersen has been awarded the Zimanyi Medal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The award is in honor of her work on relativistic heavy ion collisions.…
Even after the direct measurement of their gravitational waves, there are still mysteries surrounding black holes. What happens when two black holes merge, or when stars collide with a black…
The successful master scholarship “Goethe Goes Global“ is expanding its scope this year: whereas previously applications were only possible for 20 programs, now almost 80 programs are eligible – in…
Frankfurt scientists reveal atomic details for one of Legionella’s enzymatic weapons and develop first inhibitor. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major medical problem worldwide, impacting both human health and economic…
Not everyone person who has a “cancer gene” will inevitably develop this disease in their lifetime. Thanks to a new area of research called epigenetics, we now know that many…
Due to global trade and tourism, mosquitoes – transmitters of dangerous infectious diseases – have spread to almost every part of the world. Moreover, climate change promotes the spread of…
Following the Paris Climate Agreement, Germany and France created the program “Make Our Planet Great Again,“ to promote climate change research. One of 13 researchers selected by an expert jury…
Since first being awarded in 1901, most Nobel Prizes for science have gone to the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany and France. An empirical study by Professor Claudius Gros from…
How new blood vessels form in mammals, for example during development or after injury, was so far not known exactly. Scientists at the Goethe University have now been able to…
What difference does it make to the Earth’s water resources if we can limit global warming to 1.5°C instead of 2°C? A research group led by Goethe University Frankfurt has…
Harold James, Princeton University, will hold the Visiting Professorship of Financial History at Goethe University Frankfurt’s House of Finance this year. The professorship is endowed by Metzler Bank and Friedrich…
One of the most significant impairments of the quality of life after a chemotherapy is infertility. Researchers of the Goethe University and the University Tor Vergata in Rome have now…
Astrophysicists at Goethe University Frankfurt answer this question by computing images of feeding non-Einsteinian black holes: At present it is hard to tell them apart from standard black holes. One…
Two Advanced Grants of the European Research Council (ERC) have been awarded to researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt. The sociologist Professor Thomas Lemke is researching the social impacts of cryobiology,…
In the pre-industrial age, twilight was a dangerous time for humans since they were at risk of encountering nocturnal predators. Anyone still able to recognise things despite the weak light…
For the first time, scientists of the German Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Goethe University and the University of Lund in Sweden have deciphered the complete genome of the…
Transgenic organisms, e.g. animals or plants into which a foreign gene has been introduced, are powerful tools that can be used to analyse biological processes or to mimic human diseases.…
Fat cells, or adipocytes, regulate body temperature and energy consumption but they can also cause illness. The prizewinner is studying how different fat cells develop, how they work, and how…
Anthony Cerami and David Wallach have – in their own individual way and independently of one other – decoded the significance of TNF, helping make the neutralization of TNF one…
From 1964 to 1968, the General Students’ Committee (AStA) of the Frankfurt Goethe University ran a gallery in the student building on the Bockenheim campus. Called the “Studiogalerie”, this establishment…
Cases of multi-resistant bacteria in hospitals have increased dramatically in recent years and the health system faces tremendous problems as a result. Alongside “old acquaintances”, such as Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)…
Goethe University Frankfurt can boast another EU-funded research project: With the appointment of Yee Lee Shing as Chair of Developmental Psychology her PIVOTAL research project has accompanied her to Frankfurt.…
More and more applications (apps) for smartphones are available that are able to access personal data without the user’s knowledge. Researchers at the Goethe University Frankfurt have now developed an…
January 2018 saw the launch at Goethe University Frankfurt of a further Koselleck project funded by the German Research Foundation. The project, headed by professor and linguist Thomas Ede Zimmermann,…
Mutations in the p63 protein lead to a number of disorders, but none is as severe as the AEC syndrome. Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt in collaboration with a research…
On average, mammals move only half to one third of the distance in human-modified landscapes than they do in the wild. These findings have been published today by an international…
Since their discovery in the 1960s, scientists have sought to answer an important question: How massive can neutron stars actually become? By contrast to black holes, these stars cannot gain…
Goethe University Frankfurt can continue its study of the Nok Culture. The German Research Foundation has recently approved the funding application submitted by Professor Peter Breunig, Professor of African Archaeology,…
The initiators behind two projects at Goethe University Frankfurt have every reason to be pleased: Their new research groups will benefit from German Research Foundation funds totalling € 1.9 million.…
Economist with a broad range of interests Economist Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Professor of Macroeconomics and Development at Goethe University Frankfurt, has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2018 worth €…
Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt unveil the secret of the Blue Hole stalactite In 1970, a team led by French ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau recovered an unusual stalactite from the…
Microorganisms often produce natural products in a step-by-step manner similar to an assembly line. Examples of such enzymes are non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS). Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt have now…
Our environment is composed according to certain rules and characteristics which are so obvious to us that we are scarcely aware of them. Professor Melissa Lê-Hoa Võ, psychologist at Goethe…
By no means are only elderly people at risk from heart diseases. Physically active individuals can also be affected, for example if a seemingly harmless flu bug spreads to the…
Differences in intelligence have so far mostly been attributed to differences in specific brain regions. However, are smart people’s brains also wired differently to those of less intelligent persons? A…
With a miniaturised space probe capable of being accelerated to a quarter of the speed of light we could reach Alpha Centauri, our nearest star, in about 20 or up…
Misfolded proteins cause many diseases including neurodegenerative conditions and cancer. To protect themselves from protein misfolding, cells have developed sophisticated quality control mechanisms. How these function in the case of…
Social media have become an indispensable part of our everyday life. We use them constantly to screen the latest news and share pre-selected information. The cells in our body do…
A team of Frankfurt-based archaeologists has returned from the Iraqi-Kurdish province of Sulaymaniyah with new findings. The discovery of a loom from the 5th to 6th century AD in particular…
The surface of every cell contains receptors that react to external signals similar to a “gate”. In this way, the cells of the innate immune system can differentiate between friend…
Science publication describes quality control of antigens. The immune system monitors the health status of the cells in our bodies by examining a kind of molecular passport. Sometimes cells present…
Goethe University’s Museum Giersch shows pictures of a nearly forgotten artist couple. The visual artist Eric Isenburger (1902–1994) and his wife and muse, expressionist dancer Jula Isenburger, née Elenbogen (1908–2000),…
Research unit validates upgraded models in second funding period. Gravity waves form in the atmosphere as a result of destabilizing processes, for example at weather fronts, during storms or when…
Artificial transporter enzyme complexes improve sugar utilization in baker’s yeast. Making valuable products, such as fuels, synthetic materials or pharmaceuticals, from renewable raw materials is to date not efficient enough…
Konstantinos Stellos awarded ERC Starting Grant. Atherosclerosis, the most frequent cause of death in the western world, usually starts with an inflammation of arterial endothelial cells, a process that affects…
The role of faulty RNA molecules will be analyzed by Goethe University’s Prof. Rolf Marschalek / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) will fund the project with 1.25 million Euro. According to the…
SMART study reveals changes in brain metabolism. Numerous studies have shown that physical exercise seems beneficial in the prevention of cognitive impairment and dementia in old age. Now researchers at…
A group of scientists has put together the puzzle pieces of a riboswitch-based regulatory process in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis The survival of the cell is – apart from other…
Machos are only welcome when female mosquitofish are in a group In evolution, a high sex drive does not always pay off. Female mosquitofish swim away from over-impetuous lovers because…
The European Union is funding three new projects – Innovative Training Networks (ITN) within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Programme – for structured doctoral training at Goethe University Frankfurt. Such projects are…
New Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group at the Faculty of Law examines EU solidarity conflicts A new Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group has started work at the Faculty…
Anesthetics cause certain areas of the brain to generate less information. To date, researchers assumed that anesthetics interrupt signal transmission between different areas of the brain and that is why…
German Research Foundation approves Collaborative Research Centre on the topic of matter under extreme conditions in cooperation with the universities in Darmstadt and Bielefeld / CRC in medicine extended The…
Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt have successfully combined two very advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques Is it possible to watch at the level of single cells how fish embryos become trout,…
State of Hesse grants funds of about € 525,000 for research against forgetting. Boris Rhein, Minister for Science and the Arts, today introduced the holder of Germany’s first chair for…
A team around Ivan Dikic and Mike Heilemann discovers an inflammatory signaling platform which may lead to novel antibiotic therapies With drug resistance being on the rise worldwide, bacterial infections…
Light-inducible microRNA inhibitors used for the first time as local therapeutic agents. MicroRNAs are interesting target structures for new therapeutic agents. They can be blocked through synthetic antimiRs. However, to…
Screening process for lead structures with optimized efficiencies Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are promising candidates for flexible flat displays. By means of a screening process developed by chemists at Goethe…
Proposal by young geoscientists and physicists shortlisted. Their own experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) is the dream of many young early career researchers. For some geosciences and physics…
Goethe University Frankfurt secures two ERC Advanced Investigator Grants / € 2.5 million each for five years Two ERC Advanced Investigator Grants of the European Research Council to the amount…
Event Horizon Telescope: Goethe University is participating via the ERC-project Black Hole Cam. As part of the collaboration „BlackHoleCam“ the research group of Prof. Luciano Rezzolla of Goethe University Frankfurt…
Ubiquitin is a small protein that can be linked to other cellular proteins, thereby controlling and modulating their functions. The attachment occurs in many different forms, either as single molecule…
The young researcher has been awarded for his contribution to a gene therapy approach to treat retinitis pigmentosa and for the development of artificial neuronal circuits. Retinitis pigmentosa is an…
Scientists looking for new tumor viruses have to keep an eye out for the virus genes rather than the viral particles. This year’s winners of the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig…
Short-chain fatty acids are high-value constituents of cosmetics, active pharmaceutical ingredients, antimicrobial substances, aromas or soap. To date, it has only been possible to extract them from crude oil by…
Walking or jogging helps patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer to cope better with the side effects of chemotherapy. This has now been shown by a study conducted by Katrin Stücher…
Researchers often observe inadequate parenting, a negative emotional climate and household chaos in families of children with ADHD. A research group at Goethe University Frankfurt and the universities of Bremen,…
The 1950s represented an era of new beginnings. Abstraction dominated the art of the young Federal Republic of Germany. Featuring 74 works by 20 artists, Giersch Museum’s new exhibition is…
Proteins are the building blocks of all cells. They are made from messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules, which are copied from DNA in the nuclei of cells. All cells, including brain…
The Archive Centre of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library has been able to expand its collection of material on critical theory thanks to the bequest of philosopher Hermann Schweppenhäuser…
Because it is impossible to predict which acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients will benefit, all patients are routinely treated with chemotherapy although only some will respond to the treatment. Researchers…
Boris Rhein, Hessen’s Minister for Science and the Arts, announced on the 16th of December that historian Professor Dr. Sybille Steinbacher had been called to the first chair for Holocaust…
Whether water freezes to ice, iron is demagnetized or a material becomes superconducting – for physicists there is always a phase transition behind it. They endeavour to understand these different…
Nature often produces a whole weaponry of active ingredients to ensure it is well prepared for any scenario that might occur. Pharmacists and medical experts have meanwhile learnt from this,…
Helium atoms are loners. Only if they are cooled down to an extremely low temperature do they form a very weakly bound molecule. In so doing, they can keep a…
The attachment of ubiquitin was long considered as giving the „kiss of death“, labelling superfluous proteins for disposal within a cell. However, by now it has been well established that…
Study by PwC and Goethe University Frankfurt reveals: In Dax and MDax-listed companies, bonuses are decoupled from corporate success after payout. To date, the bonuses paid out to executive board…
The first Research Training Group ever with a focus on film studies will be established in the course of the coming year at Goethe University Frankfurt. This was announced by…
Translation of the genetic code in proteins is a central process in life and takes place in the ribosome, a giant molecule consisting of two subunits. This is where long…
Regulatory authorities around the world can in future instruct manufacturers of chemicals and drugs to check their products for harmful effects on reproduction by means of a new test with…
Invention by Professor Horst Schmidt-Böcking (Goethe University Frankfurt) and his colleague Dr. Gerhard Luther (Saarland University) is the basis for a novel marine pumped storage system developed by the Fraunhofer…
When new particles develop in the atmosphere, this influences cloud formation and with that the climate too. Since a few years, these complex processes have been reproduced in a large…
Microbes are already used on a wide scale for the production of fuels and base chemicals, but for this most of them have to be “fed” with sugar. However, since…
Professor Maria Roser Valenti has been elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in the „Division of Computational Physics“. She was awarded this high distinction for her…
Hydrogen (H2) is an extremely simple molecule and yet a valuable raw material which as a result of the development of sophisticated catalysts is becoming more and more important. In…
Ultimately, a video conference is no substitute for meeting in person: For a Vice President of Internationalisation, visiting current or future partner universities is basically part of the job description.…
Riedberg Campus continues to grow. Hessian Minister of Higher Education, Research and the Arts Boris Rhein and Professor Birgitta Wolff, Goethe University President, together presented the winner of the architect…
The Institute for England and America Studies at Goethe University is hosting an international conference with the title „The Return of the Aesthetic in American Studies“. Speakers will examine the…
The “Haus der Stille“ (House of Silence) opened on 5th October 2010 on the Westend Campus, creating a multi-faith prayer room for meditation and reflection for students, employees and others…
Can doctors’ theses be interesting, topical and generally understandable? In colourful, playfully designed rooms, fourteen doctoral students and two postdocs from the fields of archeology and cultural anthropology – all…
27 individuals distinguished: in cooperation with the graduate school HGS-HIRe, Stiftung Giersch presented the Giersch Excellence Awards and Giersch Excellence Grants to early career researchers from the universities in Darmstadt…
The General Assembly of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) has elected Professor Birgitta Wolff as new member to the HRK Executive Board. Wolff will be in charge of “Research and…
“Germany the way I see it: Different and beautiful“ – this was the motto of the photography competition organised by the Goethe Welcome Centre for international doctoral candidates for the…
The year 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of the famous Marburg new Kantian thinker Hermann Cohen. In 2019, 100 years will have passed since the posthumous publication…
For the second time since 2017, the RMU Initiative Funding for Teaching will fund initiatives by teachers at the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) to promote the qualitative development of studying and…
This winter semester’s lecture series by the Excellence Cluster “The Formation of Normative Orders“ is entitled: “The End of Pacification? The Transformation of Political Violence in the 21st Century”. The…
The research group “Foundations of Law and Finance”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) with approx. 3.1m euro, will formally begin with a kick-off event on 1st November. Two keynote…
The new building on the Westend Campus will house the Faculty of Linguistics, Culture and Arts, the last of the social science and humanistic disciplines yet to be relocated from…
