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Proteins, also known as protein, are important players in the body: they control and regulate virtually all of its functions. Altered protein structures in cells lead to serious diseases,… [read more]

Providing food for 10 billion people despite advancing climate change and scarce production areas is the challenge agriculture is facing until 2050. As a new series of events at the… [read more]

To counter the climate crisis, fundamental societal change is just as indispensable as groundbreaking technological innovation. Universities, as places of research and transfer, have an… [read more]

In the THE Impact Rankings, TUM has again placed first worldwide in the category industry, innovation, and infrastructure. The rankings cover research output as well as patents, spin-offs… [read more]

Non-nutritivesweeteners are sweeteners that have very high sweetening power but contribute little or nothing to energy intake. They play a major role not only in the U.S. but also in Germany… [read more]

How can we open up new species for more climate-stable crop production? Wild plant species that have not yet been domesticated and so-called specialty crops are often neglected by research,… [read more]

The motto of the Farmvision Festival at the Technical University of Munich’s (TUM) Weihenstephan site was to make research and the future of agriculture a tangible experience. The Hans… [read more]

The world's population is growing - and so is the hunger for grain. More grain must be produced to feed the world's people, but climate change brings frequent weather extremes that make… [read more]

Ensuring the supply of food to the constantly growing world population and protecting the environment at the same time are often conflicting objectives. Now researchers at the Technical… [read more]

An agricultural research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has made it to the finals in the "project of the century" ("Jahrhundertprojekt") competition for 100 million Swiss… [read more]