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There are many enzymes that are promising in the breaking down of plastics. But what works in laboratory experiments often fails on an industrial scale. Now a new study by Dr. Gert Weber, Helmholtz Center Berlin (HZB), Prof. Dr. Uwe Bornscheuer, University of Greifswald, and Prof. Dr. Alain Marty,…

As biocatalysts, enzymes can make many chemical processes "greener" and open up promising opportunities for various industries from pharmaceuticals to environmental technology. New analytical methods, the enormous increase in data volumes and machine learning have helped boost the development of…

A patient with a severe thrombotic autoimmune disease caused by anti-PF4 antibodies was successfully treated in the first ever application of the drug Ibrutinib in this context. The doctors involved in the treatment at the CardioAngiologisches Centrum Bethanien (CCB) Frankfurt/M. and University…

How large bats grow is closely linked to the temperature they experience when they are young. A team of re-searchers from the University of Greifswald, Germany, used a several-year field experiment on wild Bechstein's to show that body growth is directly determined by the roost temperature a bat…

Simple methods can be used to determine the various species living together in a certain biotope. Using sterile swabs similar to those used in test centres during the COVID-19 pandemic, samples can be taken from leaves to detect the DNA left there by animals. A study from an international team of…

Major volcanic eruptions change the temperature of the atmosphere. This effect was observed in a previous eruption up to an altitude of 100 km. Researchers at the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg have now used model simulations to try to explain the…

The supermarket chain PENNY is supporting scientists from the University of Greifswald and the Nuremberg Institute of Technology in their research on the true costs of food. 2150 supermarkets belonging to the chain formed the data pool for one week at the beginning of August. The stores demanded its…

An international research team has succeeded in deciphering the disease mechanisms of a genetically caused neurodevelopmental disorder. The results were published in the renowned journal “Science Translational Medicine”. The translational research project is led by scientists from University…

Irritator challengeri was a two-legged, meat-eating dinosaur, more precisely: a spinosaurid. The knowledge of the species is based on the most complete fossil skull known from this group. With the aid of X-ray computed tomographs used in the context of medicine or material science, paleontologists…

Growing peat moss on rewetted raised bogs instead of draining them and using them as grassland can save up to 85 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. This was discovered by a research team from the Universities of Rostock and Greifswald, which has compiled the first carbon footprint for the entire…