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Study shows how blue and red light affects concentration in adolescents.

Scientists at the Department of Medicine 3 research rheumatoid arthritis and its causes. The German Research Foundation is to fund the project in future within the framework of a DFG research group.

FAU research group develops procedure for monitoring treatment of neuroretinal degeneration.

A team of scientists, led by Dr. Haubensak, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, and Prof. Hess, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, have now identified a neuronal circuit in the brain that plays an important role in anxiety and demonstrated how common psychiatric medication acts on it.

On November 13th and 14th an exalted chinese delegation from Wuhan visited the FAU and Faculty of Medicine. The purpose of this visit was to manifest existing collaborations and to identify possibilities for new research cooperations, particularly in the medical area.

When we are infected by a virus, our body detects this attack and starts a series of defensive reactions. In collaboration with researchers at the University of Chicago, USA, a team of researchers led by Dr. F. Full and Prof. Dr. A. Ensser at the Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology have now discovered a new defensive reaction against herpes viruses.

When bones break more easily in old age, osteoporosis is often to blame. However, the cause of the disease and how it develops is not yet sufficiently understood. An interdisciplinary team is now developing a new imaging process with funding from an ERC Synergy Grant worth 12.3 million euros.

Researchers at the Institute of Biochemistry are investigating healthy ingredients in beer win the research grant from the European Foundation for Alcohol Research and the European Brewery Convention, worth 60,000 euros.

Researchers at FAU have discovered that proteins that were previously associated with longevity and anti-ageing also play an important role during the formation and positioning of synapses.

Combining two statistical methods that are fundamentally different. Dr. E. Waldmann from FAU has received the Freigeist Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation for her innovative and unusual research project.