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Tag: Biochemistry

Projects

2 November 2021

Human milk supplies ideas for new cardiovascular drugs

In the context of her Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship in the USA, Ariane Pessentheiner investigated potential uses for the anti-inflammatory power of human breast milk in new treatments against atherosclerosis. Pessentheiner is now focusing on how better to communicate scientific findings on cardiovascular diseases to the general public. Continue reading “Human milk supplies ideas for new cardiovascular drugs”

On the road

16 August 2021

It’s live or let die for proteins – Stockholm in the pandemic

By Verena Kohler

Perfectly balanced processes in cells keep our organism healthy. With increasing age, this balance can be disturbed and there is a decline of communication within the cell. The biochemist and Schrödinger Fellow Verena Kohler seeks to understand what exactly happens during cell ageing. She has found the perfect research environment for this endeavour at Stockholm […] Continue reading “It’s live or let die for proteins – Stockholm in the pandemic”

Projects

30 July 2018

Proven biochemistry methods for new skin cancer therapy

Like all other cells in the body, skin cancer cells need a cholesterol metabolism. With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a Viennese research group discovered deviations and particularities of this process in malignant melanoma that could help improve prognosis and therapy. Continue reading “Proven biochemistry methods for new skin cancer therapy”

Portrait

11 April 2018

“Never stop, always keep thinking things over”

By Magdalena Meergraf

For almost three decades, Peter Holzer has been dealing with the question of how the bowels and the brain communicate with each other. The results are remarkable. Continue reading ““Never stop, always keep thinking things over””

Projects

14 August 2017

Many proteins must set to work so as to activate fat

What happens and where, when the body’s fat stores are activated? With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the biochemist Ruth Birner-Grünberger investigates the complex interaction of activation and regulation in fat breakdown, thus providing a basis for new therapeutic approaches for illnesses such as diabetes or arteriosclerosis. Continue reading “Many proteins must set to work so as to activate fat”

Projects

2 May 2017

The Archean ocean as an ideal breeding ground for life

In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the biochemist Markus Keller demonstrated successfully how important metabolic mechanisms were able to develop in cells four billion years ago. His research provides completely new insights into the origin of life. Continue reading “The Archean ocean as an ideal breeding ground for life”

Projects

3 October 2016

Biochar improves crop growth and climate

The use of biochar in agriculture improves soil fertility, especially in tropical regions, and mitigates greenhouse gas emissions. A project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF studied the positive impact of the “fertiliser of the future” on ecosystems and nutrient cycles. Continue reading “Biochar improves crop growth and climate”

Projects

11 April 2016

Messenger substance live on show

Scientists have succeeded in making real-time measurements of changes in the concentration of the important messenger substance nitric oxide (NO) in human cells for the first time. The breakthrough, which has been published in the journal “Nature Communications”, was achieved by fusing two special proteins which then acted as a measurement probe. Continue reading “Messenger substance live on show”

Martina Paumann-Page

On the road

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Kia Ora from Aotearoa – Land of the Long White Cloud

Martina Paumann-Page

The biochemist Martina Paumann-Page does research in Christchurch, New Zealand at the renowned Centre for Free Radical Research. The Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship offered the scientist a re-entry option into her scientific career. Continue reading “Kia Ora from Aotearoa – Land of the Long White Cloud”

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