Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
The Helmholtz Association contributes to solving major challenges facing society, science and industry with top scientific achievements in six research areas: Energy, Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, Transport and Space. With 30,000 employees in 16 research centres and an annual budget of approximately 3 billion euros, the Helmholtz Association is Germany’s largest scientific organisation. Its work follows in the tradition of the great natural scientist Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894).
| 26.08.10 | Helmholtz Head Office |
Scientists receive 2010 Erwin Schrödinger Prize for developing "arsenic detector"
Millions of people, in Southeast Asia in particular, suffer from chronic arsenic poisoning due to drinking water contaminated with the substance. Until recently, complex chemical analyses were required to determine arsenic levels, but now a new biological testing procedure can deliver reliable results inexpensively. The new method was developed by Professor Hauke Harms and Dr Mona C. Wells of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and Professor Jan-Roelof van der Meer of the University of Lausanne. For their work, the researchers have been awarded the 2010 Erwin Schrödinger Prize, which is endowed with €50,000. The President of the Helmholtz Association, Professor Jürgen Mlynek, will present the prize at the Helmholtz Association’s General Assembly on 16 September 2010.
Scientists receive 2010 Erwin Schrödinger Prize for developing "arsenic detector"
| 25.08.10 | Helmholtz Head Office |
Helmholtz backs open access publishing
The Helmholtz Association has signed up for open access membership with Springer scientific publishing. The agreement means that the research centres in the Helmholtz Association will pay the fees charged to authors for articles published in SpringerOpen and BioMed Central journals. The Helmholtz Open Access Project assisted in the proceedings.
| 19.08.10 | Helmholtz Zentrum München- German Research Center for Environmental Health |
Lipid Peroxides – More Sophisticated than Their Reputation
Accumulation of lipid peroxides in the cell are associated with diseases and cellular stress. In the current issue of PNAS researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet show that lipid peroxides also play an important, yet-unrecognized role in the regulation of receptor tyrosine kinases.
| 20.08.10 | Forschungszentrum Jülich |
Jülich Researchers Take a Look Inside Molecules
Looking at individual molecules through a microscope is part of nanotechnologists' everyday lives. However, it has so far been difficult to observe atomic structures inside organic molecules. In the renowned scientific journal Physical Review Letters, Jülich researchers explain their novel method, which enables them to take an “X- ray view” inside molecules.
