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2025

Transgene parentage modulates amyloid-β load in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers around Klaus-Armin Nave have now shown that, in addition to age and sex, the parental source of the 5xFAD transgene determines the severity of Aβ plaque deposition in the offspring. more

2024

[Fe]-hydrogenase catalysis visualized using para-hydrogen-enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
A team from three Max Planck Institutes, the Center for Biostructural Imaging of Neurodegeneration at the University Medical Center Göttingen, the University of Kiel, and the FAccTs GmbH used a chemical peculiarity of hydrogen to amplify the signals of magnetic resonance spectroscopy. In this way, the scientists were able to visualize previously unknown intermediate steps in the conversion of hydrogen. more
Enhancing NMR signals in liquids
Researchers led by Marina Bennati have developed a new instrumental design that enables enhancing NMR signals for liquid-state NMR. more
Tracking molecular movements with nanometer precision using MINSTED
Stefan Hell and his research teams in Göttingen and Heidelberg have extended the MINSTED method to the high-resolution tracking of molecular movements. This enabled them to track the movements of the motor protein kinesin with unprecedented precision.
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World’s fastest electron microscope films light oscillations using quantum interference
A research team from Göttingen and Barcelona (Spain) has used the quantum mechanical interference of electrons to visualize light field oscillations in a nanostructure. more
Heating and cooling are fundamentally asymmetric
If you take a coin out of an ice bath, it warms up over time. Likewise, a hot coin that you have just taken out of a sauna cools down. The fact that systems, here the coin, thermally adapt to their environment is due to the heat flow that results from temperature differences. more

2023

Laser pulse creates exotic order in quantum material
Researchers from the MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, in collaboration with colleagues from Kiel University, have now successfully created a state in a crystalline material that – similar to the structure of liquid crystals – can be described as neither clearly liquid nor clearly crystalline. more
Multiple sclerosis: Myelin may threaten nerve fiber survival
Studies provide new insights into the mechanisms of the disease (in German) more

2022

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