Scientists in Mainz and Aachen have discovered a new mechanism that controls egg cell fertility and that might have future therapeutic potential. It was revealed by Professor Dr. Walter Stöcker of the Institute ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 24, 2013 not rated yet 0

Scientists at Mainz University develop a novel screening procedure for accurately determining the amount of animal, plant, and microbial substances in foods

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 27, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany have created a new synthetic hybrid material with a mineral content of almost 90 percent, yet ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Mar 15, 2013 4.6 / 5 (5) 0 |

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have confirmed the original model of the molecular structure of water and have thus made it possible to resolve a long-standing scientific controversy about the structure ...

Chemistry - Materials Science

Feb 12, 2013 5 / 5 (8) 7 |

Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz have identified a protein essential for initiating the development of male sex organs. Loss of the gene Gadd45g results in complete sex reversal of male mice, ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 27, 2012 not rated yet 0

Among the most important techniques developed in atomic physics over the past few years are methods that enable the storage and cooling of atoms and ions at temperatures just above absolute zero. Scientists ...

Physics - General Physics

Nov 26, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

Atmospheric aerosol particles have a significant effect on climate. An international team of researchers has now discovered that a chemical process in the atmosphere called aging determines to a major extent ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Oct 05, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Ants that are held as slaves in nests of other ant species damage their oppressors through acts of sabotage.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 26, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0

In the vicinity of Hermeskeil, a small town some 30 kilometers southeast of the city of Trier in the Hunsrueck region in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, archaeologists from Johannes Gutenberg University ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 14, 2012 4.4 / 5 (8) 2

The Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archaeology division of the Faculty of Protestant Theology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) this year ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Sep 10, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 1

An international team that includes scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has published a reconstruction of the climate in northern Europe over the last 2,000 years based on the information ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jul 09, 2012 4.7 / 5 (10) 6

Biologists from Mainz University are the first to successfully crystallize the hemocyanin of the emperor scorpion to shed new light on the structure and active site of the giant oxygen transport protein.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jun 22, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Scientists at the University of Mainz have discovered a close correlation between over-indebtedness and obesity. According to the report published in the journal BMC Public Health, over-indebted Germans are more likely to be ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Aug 11, 2009 5 / 5 (2) 4

Atomic nuclei are normally compact structures defined by a sharp border. About twenty-five years ago, it was discovered at the University of California in Berkeley that there are exceptions to this picture: ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 20, 2009 4.8 / 5 (18) 3

In order to cope with their environment, animals must be able to remember the location of their destination in situations in which they temporarily lose sight of it. This ability, known as orientation memory, is found in ...

Biology -

Jul 10, 2008 4.3 / 5 (3) 0