A research group led by the physician Christian Dejaco is investigating circumstances under which patients may stop taking medication for rheumatoid arthritis without running the risk of the disease flaring up again. Continue reading “Ultrasound for better therapeutic effects in rheumatism”
At higher education institutions (HEIs), regional commitment that is not profit-oriented often suffers from neglect. At the same time, sustainable regional development is becoming an increasingly important factor. As current studies show, there is still a lot of work to be done if HEIs are to be more of a driving force at regional level. Continue reading “Regional is not banal”
In a 19-volume edition, a research team from Graz led by the German Studies scholar Klaus Kastberger presents a comprehensive and informative picture of Ödön von Horváth. The critical historical edition sheds a more ambivalent light on the writer than in the past. Continue reading “Ödön von Horváth: highly modern and quite ambivalent”
The Goffin cockatoos are an amazingly clever parrot species. Behaviorist Mark O’Hara wants to find out why. In order to better understand how the animals tick, the Schrödinger scholar has set off for Indonesia.
By redesigning its career development programmes, the Austrian Science Fund FWF intends to initiate trailblazing changes to promote equal opportunities and innovation. This would provide a huge modernization thrust to the academic system as a whole, as Edith Gößnitzer notes in this interview. Gößnitzer, a chemist and expert on gender equality, is convinced that the prerequisites are already in place.
Continue reading ““The excellent women researchers are right here””
Over the last 25 years, the microbiologist Michael Wagner has developed methods that make it possible to examine bacteria and archaea directly in medical or environmental samples without growing them. Today he watches them eat, sorts them by function, and in 2015 discovered “Comammox”, a new bacterial species that can help reduce the production of nitrous oxide in the global nitrogen cycle. Continue reading “Exploring the miracle of life”
