Iron is a critical micronutrient for the survival of plants and humans, yet too much iron can also be toxic. An interdisciplinary research team from…
Modern eukaryotic cells contain numerous so-called organelles, which once used to be independent bacteria. In order to understand how these bacteria…
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) is celebrating a success in the acquisition of major joint projects: As the German Research Foundation…
After Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s is the world’s most common neurodegenerative disease. Up to 400,000 people in Germany alone suffer from it. In this…
The President of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Professor Dr Anja Steinbeck, appointed physicist Dr Stefan Ulmer as W3 Professor of…
From September 2019 to October 2020, the German research vessel Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute drifted across the Arctic Ocean frozen…
For the second time, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has been placed in the top fifth of the best international universities. In the “Times…
The winter semester at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has started for around 32,500 students. Roughly 3,750 of them are first-year…
Art and science meet at the Aichi Triennale in Japan. Chemist Dr. Bernd M. Schmidt from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has collaborated…
Researchers at Jülich Research Center (Forschungszentrum Jülich – FZJ) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) headed by Professor Dr Carsten…