Nature in city environs has a positive effect on people's well-being. At the same time biological diversity in urban areas continues to shrink, for example because of increasing building…
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The German Research Foundation (DFG) has extended its funding for the Microbiome Signatures collaborative research center (CRC 1371) which is led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM).…
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Animal-Aided Design reconciles housing and nature conservation. How can a common, urban habitat for humans and wildlife succeed? Wolfgang Weisser, Professor of Terrestrial Ecology at the…
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If you gain weight, the fat cells in the body get bigger. So in the extremely obese, those fat cells are greatly enlarged. Now, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) were…
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Twelve talented researchers at TUM have been awarded ERC Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC) - three of them from the TUM School of Life Sciences. The European Union…
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Fourteen TUM researchers belong to the world's most frequently cited scientists. Their names can be found in the latest Highly Cited Researchers rankings.
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In Alzheimer's disease, the degeneration of brain cells is linked to formation of toxic protein aggregates and deposits known as amyloid plaques. Similar processes play an important role…
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Sophie Arzberger is passionate about urban climate and ecology. Since May, the young natural scientist has been doing her doctorate at the Professorship of Forest and Agroforest Systems at…
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TUM has again moved upward in the THE World University Rankings by Subject and is now among the world’s 23 best universities for natural sciences. It ranks 35th in life sciences which…
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Petra Först received a new professorship in Food Process Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in October. In this short interview, she talks about what she is currently…
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