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From Genetic Variations to Binding Proteins and the Regulation of Genes: Proteomics helps to understand the influence of genetic variations
How does type 2 diabetes develop? A team of researchers headed by the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich has come closer to finding an answer to this problem. The team examined the functional effects...[more]
Molecular mechanism responsible for blooming in spring identified: Outwitting climate change with a plant 'dimmer'?Molecular mechanism responsible for blooming in spring identified: Outwitting climate change with a plant 'dimmer'?
Plants possess molecular mechanisms that prevent them from blooming in winter. Once the cold of win-ter has passed, they are deactivated. However, if it is still too cold in spring, plants adapt their blooming behavior...[more]
Domino Effect in the Amazon Rainforest: Increased Periods of Drought Set off Downward Spiral in the Amazon
Reduced rainfall in the Amazon rainforest is increasing forest mortality. Fewer trees exacerbate regional periods of drought, leading to a self-amplified forest loss. A study conducted by an international team of researchers...[more]
A study of 3,000 PET scans yields new data on the proportion of brown fat: Humans have three times more brown body fat
Compared to white fat, brown body fat burns energy at an extraordinary rate. However, until now the proportion of brown fat in humans was thought to be quite small. Now a study conducted by researchers at the Technical University...[more]
Milestone for the analysis of human proteomes
Researchers led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) report on the synthesis of a library of more than 330,000 reference peptides representing essentially all canonical proteins of the human proteome. It is a major...[more]
Antibodies as ‘messengers’ in the nervous system
Antibodies are able to activate human nerve cells within milliseconds and hence modify their function — that is the surprising conclusion of a study carried out at Human Biology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). This...[more]