Research

There is currently no cure for patients with HIV or the T-cell leukaemia virus. Possible approaches to finding cures for these viruses is one of the topics of an international basic research conference on retrovirology in Erlangen.

An international team of researchers has developed a new opioid pain reliever with a characteristic of special significance: the new analgesic appears to have virtually no serious side effects.

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Physicists at FAU and the Vienna University of Technology have successfully created one-dimensional magnetic atom chains for the first time. Their break-through provides a model system for basic research.