Career Week for doctoral researchers and early postdocs
The Graduate Academy Leipzig invites all doctoral researchers and early postdocs to the Career Week at the Villa Tillmanns from 10 to 14 June.
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Study: Low-intensity grazing is locally better for biodiversity but challenging for land users
A team of researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University (UL), and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has investigated the motivation and potential incentives for and challenges of low-intensity grazing among farmers and land…
New regulator of eating behaviour identified
The rapidly escalating prevalence of overweight and obesity poses a significant medical challenge worldwide. In addition to people’s changing lifestyles, genetic factors also play a key role in the development of obesity. Scientists at Leipzig University and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf have…
How do young people in the Middle East and North Africa see the future?
What do young people expect from the future? On behalf of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, researchers conducted individual interviews with more than 12,000 young people from twelve countries in the Middle East and North Africa in 2021 and 2022. The interviewees, aged between 16 and 30, offered an…
Leipzig physicists show that light can generate electricity even in translucent materials
Some materials are transparent to light of a certain frequency. When such light is shone on them, electrical currents can still be generated, contrary to previous assumptions. Scientists from Leipzig University and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have managed to prove this. “This opens…
Biomarkers identified for successful treatment of bone marrow tumours
CAR T cell therapy has proven effective in treating various haematological cancers. However, not all patients respond equally well to treatment. In a recent clinical study, researchers from the University of Leipzig Medical Center and the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology…
