An international research team headed by the rheumatologist Dr Andreas Ramming at FAU was able to identify an immune system cell type that can be used in a targeted attempt to control the inflammatory response of arthritis patients.
From now on, international alumni and students can network more closely and enhance the university´s worldwide appeal. For this reason, FAU´s Alumni-Management will initiate international alumni groups and establish FAU Scouts.
In the middle of the large Chilean Atacama desert, a team of Polish astronomers are patiently monitoring millions of celestial bodies night after night with the help of a modern robotic telescope.
Physicists in Kaiserslautern and Erlangen have for the first time observed the fundamental steps of diffusion by individual atoms in a gas and have provided a theoretical description of this mechanism.
Muchao Qu is pursuing his PhD at FAU´s Institute of Polymer Materials (LSP) where he carries out research on Conductive Polymer Composites (CPC). In this interview he gives a very personal insight into his stay in Germany and at FAU.
Researchers from FAU, together with colleagues from other universities and partners in industry, have discovered how the sugar gets into the phloem of sugar beet.
It has been determined by a team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Ana‐Sunčana Smith working in collaboration with German and French colleagues that physical effects play an important role in cell-cell adhesion and its maintenance.
The aim of chemotherapy is the selective destruction of cancer cells in the body of the patient. Researchers at FAU have now managed to gain more detailed insights into the effects of chemotherapeutic agents on healthy neurons.
The loss of heart muscle cells is the main cause of impaired cardiac function. While investigating factors involved in human cardiomyocyte proliferation, researchers at FAU discovered a molecule which activates a specific receptor in the cell nucleus.
