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Space missions: Building blocks of life technically detectable on icy moons
Technically, it would be possible for future space missions to detect DNA, lipids and other bacterial components on icy moons with an ocean beneath the ice in our solar system – assuming these building blocks of life exist beyond Earth. This is the conclusion reached by an international team of…
Leipzig University involved in new major research centre
The Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC), in which Leipzig University is involved, will be expanded in the coming years into a major research centre based in Central Germany that will play a decisive role in shaping structural change in the region after the coal phase-out. This was…
Researchers study historical developments of the periodic system of chemical elements
In the 1860s, the chemists, Lothar Meyer and Dmitri Mendeleev, independently presented the first periodic system. Since then, the well-known tabular arrangement of the elements has been the guiding principle of chemistry. A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the…
Biosynthesis of cyanobacterin opens up new class of natural compounds
Researchers in the groups of Prof. Tobias Gulder from TU Dresden and Prof. Tanja Gulder from Leipzig University have succeeded in understanding the biosynthetic mechanisms for the production of the natural product cyanobacterin, which in Nature is produced in small quantities by the cyanobacteria…
Newly discovered enzyme breaks down PET plastic in record time
Plastic bottles, punnets, wrap – such lightweight packaging made of PET plastic becomes a problem if it is not recycled. Scientists at Leipzig University have now discovered a highly efficient enzyme that degrades PET in record time. The enzyme PHL7, which the researchers found in a compost heap in…
Chemist Dr. Jonas Warneke receives Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize
The chemist Dr. Jonas Warneke from Leipzig University (PI in the Research Training Group 2721: Hydrogen Isotopes, ¹²³H) receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis 2022. The prize, which is awarded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and the Federal Ministry of…
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