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Researchers bring 60-year-old dormant algae cells to life

16.04.2024

Groundbreaking research has managed to circumvent previous challenges in finding out how microalgae adapt to global warming by studying up to 60-year-old microalgae cells from the Archipelago Sea. Some microalgae form resting cells that sink to the seabed after blooming is over. Researchers have now managed to awaken these dormant cells from sediment cores with different chronological layers that can be dated by geological methods.

CRISPR workshop 2024

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18.3.2024 at 9.00 - 22.3.2024 at 16.00
Introduction to CRISPR/Cas9 system gRNA and homology-directed repair template design in vitro ribonucleoprotein delivery Experimental efficiency analysis

New Research Data on the Regulation of Hormone-dependent Breast Cancer

22.04.2021

Notch proteins are key regulators of growth and differentiation of both normal and cancer cells. Researchers in Turku, Finland, have now demonstrated that the activities of distinct Notch family members are modified differently by phosphorylation. These results can be used in the development of new cancer treatments, especially for hormone-dependent breast cancer. 

Syphilis May Have Spread through Europe before Columbus

14.08.2020

Columbus brought syphilis to Europe – or did he? A recent study conducted at the University of Zurich now indicates that Europeans could already have been infected with this sexually transmitted disease before the 15th century. In addition, researchers have discovered a hitherto unknown pathogen causing a related disease. The predecessor of syphilis and its related diseases could be over 2,500 years old.