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News from the University of Freiburg
3D-Printed Pneumatic Modules Replace Electric Controls in Soft Robots
Research team at the University of Freiburg develops 3D-printed pneumatic logic modules that control the movements of soft robots using only air pressure.
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News from the University of Freiburg
Prostate cancer: Newly-developed inhibitor shows massive potential
New epigenetic inhibitor is also effective in treatment-resistant prostate cancer cells.
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News from Campus OWL
HSBI and the University of Tübingen Are Developing an Alternative to Glyphosate
Glyphosate reliably destroys unwanted plants, is used worldwide – and has been hotly disputed for years because of its negative effects on the environment and health. A ban on the herbicide in Germany and possibly even in the whole EU has hung in the air for a long time. A better alternative is in sight: in a cooperation project with the University of Tübingen funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), doctoral candidates at Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI) are working on an environmentally friendly herbicide based on a natural sugar from cyanobacteria.
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News from the University of Cologne
ERC Synergy Grant for University of Cologne’s Professor Björn Schumacher: Bats as a Guide to Extend Healthspan
The European Research Council (ERC) is funding the project ‘BATPROTECT’ with 11.9 million euros over a period of six years.
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News from UA Ruhr
Regulating Emotions Under Stress
How do men and women regulate their emotions under stress? A new study in cognitive psychology that makes use of the socially evaluated cold-pressor test has answered this question.
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News from the University of Cologne
University of Cologne Researchers Discover a Key Mechanism That Controls Human Heart Development
Writing in ‘Science Advances’ researchers of the University of Cologne describe a key mechanism that controls the decision-making process that allows human embryonic stem cells to make the heart. These discoveries enable better insights into how the human heart forms in an embryo and what can go wrong during heart formation, causing cardiac disease or, in the worst case, embryo termination.
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News from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI)
Health economist Ariel Dora Stern joins HPI with Humboldt Professorship
International gain for the joint Digital Engineering Faculty of HPI and University of Potsdam: The renowned scientist Prof. Dr. Ariel Dora Stern, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, joins the Digital Health Cluster at the Hasso Plattner Institute with a Humboldt Professorship.
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