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Artist's impression of the molecule Darobactin 22, its docking site in the cell membrane and the target bacteria. (Credit: © HIPS/HZI)

Biotech & Pharma, Research, Academia & Universities

Scientists engineer new potent antibiotic

In the constant arms race with bacteria, scientists at the Centre for Structural Systems Biology CSSB together with colleagues from the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland HIPS …
The iSenseDNA team at the kick-off meeting in October at the University of Padua (Italy). (Photo: © Univ. Uppsala)

Biotech & Pharma, Research, Academia & Universities

Large-scale project iSenseDNA launched

Understanding how a specific molecule behaves during complex biological processes is a challenge facing biomedical research, despite major biotechnological progress made in recent years. A major new …

Research, Academia & Universities

Molecular water research for life

Water is key to life on our planet and plays a central role in human cells, clouds in the atmosphere, water-based catalysts in industry, and many other important systems.
Group photo from left to right: Manuel Izquierdo (SXP, EuXFEL), Massimo Altarelli (former managing director EuXFEL), Reinhard Brinkmann and Wim Leemans (both DESY), Nicole Elleuche and Robert Feidenhans

Research, Academia & Universities

European XFEL celebrates 5 years of user operation

European XFEL has celebrated its fifth anniversary of user operation and began the commissioning of a new instrument in the presence of State Secretary Judith Pirscher from the Federal Ministry of …

Forschung & Hochschulen 

Fighting Chronic Diseases and Cancer

For the study, which has now been published in the journal Antioxidants, the team led by experimental physicist Florian Grüner of the University of Hamburg examined Q10 molecules which they had …
The paper

Biotech & Pharma, Research, Academia & Universities

Natural substances show promise against coronavirus

Three natural compounds present in foods like green tea, olive oil and red wine are promising candidates for the development of drugs against the coronavirus. In a comprehensive screening of a large …
(Picture: ©denisismagilov - adobe.stock.com)

Biotech & Pharma, Digitalisation

Quantum Physics in Proteins

A new analytical technique is able to provide hitherto unattainable insights into the extremely rapid dynamics of biomolecules. The team of developers, led by Abbas Ourmazd from the University of …
From left to right: Robert Feidenhans'l, Nicole Elleuche, Friederike Kampschulte, Katharina Fegebank. (Picture: ©European XFEL / Axel Heimken)

Forschung & Hochschulen 

New accommodation for XFEL's global researchers

Katharina Fegebank, Senator for Research, Science and Equality in Hamburg, and Friederike Kampschulte, Head of the Science Department at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in …
In a massive X-ray screening, scientists identified promising candidates for drugs against SARS-CoV-2 (artist's impression). Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab

Research, Academia & Universities

DESY X-ray lightsource identifies candidates for COVID

A team of researchers has identified several candidates for drugs against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 at DESY´s high-brilliance X-ray lightsource PETRA III. They bind to an important protein of the …
Fotomontage: DESY/R. Schaaf, Atelier Disko

Funding & Competition, Research, Academia & Universities

€ 105. M for DESY Innovation Factory

Science as a driver for innovation: DESY is building a technology and start-up centre in the heart of the future Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld site. This major project – the first federal facility …