by Linda Faye Tidwell
A new generation of optogenetic tools for research and medicine
The European Research Council (ERC) is providing 10 million euros in funding for an interdisciplinary, collaborative project to structurally and biophysically analyze selected photo-receptors and develop them into “OptoGPCRs”, light-controlled molecular switches with a wide range of applications in biology and medicine.
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by Linda Faye Tidwell
Surprising insights into the role of autophagy in neurons
It appears that autophagy protects our neurons in the brain, but evidently for entirely different reasons than previously assumed, as researchers from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) and Charité in Berlin have now shown. These fundamentally new findings have now been published in the prestigious journal “Neuron”.
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Falling Walls Winner
We are Falling Walls Finalists! Watch our science breakthrough in the Science and Innovation Management Category here: Enable the next impact-driven generation of scientists
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by Linda Faye Tidwell
International Festival of Science in Berlin and Remote
Ten days of research, innovation and international exchange - Berlin Science Week and Falling Walls invite you to a Remote World Science Summit this year. With more than 200 virtual discussion events, workshops, exhibitions and performances, the organizers defy the pandemic and want to promote a deeper understanding of the world. Neuroscientists will discuss, for example, how to deal with dementia.
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