New Ribozyme for Exploring the World of RNA
09/04/2023
Important progress for RNA research: A team led by Würzburg chemistry professor Claudia Höbartner has discovered a new ribozyme that can label RNA molecules in living cells.
moreImportant progress for RNA research: A team led by Würzburg chemistry professor Claudia Höbartner has discovered a new ribozyme that can label RNA molecules in living cells.
moreProgress has been made on the path to sunlight-driven production of hydrogen. Chemists from Würzburg present a new enzyme-like molecular catalyst for water oxidation.
moreCompletely unexpectedly, the enzyme ceramidase emerges as a new target structure for the therapy of SARS-CoV-2 infections. This is reported by Würzburg researchers in "Cells".
moreSeveral layers of nanographenes stacked on top of each other: such functional elements could one day be used in solar cells. Würzburg chemists have paved the way for this.
moreChemists and virologists from the University of Würzburg are currently testing substances on a large scale to fight the new coronavirus. Some of them have been proven surprisingly effective.
moreThe use of antibiotics also leads to multidrug-resistant bacteria. A new Research Training Group at the University of Würzburg will provide 14 doctoral training positions to develop alternatives to antibiotic treatment.
moreAt the end of the European research project DIACAT a public symposium takes place at the University of Würzburg: "Carbon Materials for Sustainable Applications – Perspectives in PhotoElectroCatalysis".
moreJunior Professor Ann-Christin Pöppler and colleagues from Würzburg report why nanocontainers for drugs can have their pitfalls: If they are too heavily loaded, they will only dissolve poorly.
moreAgnieszka Nowak-Król received one of the coveted Emmy-Noether grants of the DFG for her outstanding research work in the field of functional boron compounds.
moreA fascinating Siegfried Hünig Lecture 2019, given by Prof. Makoto Fujita, showed that chemists are able to revert the principle "Form Follows Function", which is very common in architecture and was fundamental for the famous German art school "Bauhaus".
moreOn the occasion of its Anniversary Celebration 2019, the University of Würzburg has awarded Gerhard Bringmann the medal Bene Merenti in Gold, in recognition of his extraordinary merits to the University.
moreFrank Würthner, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg, receives a highly renowned prize: He is awarded the Adolf von Baeyer Medal.
moreThe graduate student from Würzburg was awarded for the presentation of her work in the field of liquid-crystalline porphyrins at the German Liquid Crystal Conference in 2019.
moreAt the Hasselt Diamond Workshop SBDD XXIV, one of the most important conferences in the field of diamond research with more than 230 participants and 120 posters, the PhD student from Würzburg was awarded one of the two Diamond Poster Awards for his excellently designed poster and the competent discussion with the jury.
moreMore than 200 participants met for the fifth edition of SupraChem in Würzburg in February 2019. Besides 27 short lectures and 111 poster contributions by German and European participants, three plenary lectures by internationally renowned scientists were given as true highlights, one of them from the 2016 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart.
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