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On this special page, we report news from the Helmholtz offices in Brussels, Moscow and Beijing several times a year. Specific focus is on cooperation and partnership ventures of the Helmholtz Association in Russia, China and the EU as well as on selected international research policy news.more

A German-French team of geophysicists has discovered that fast changes in the Earth's magnetic field display close correlation with variations in the Earth's gravity. They used magnetic field data from the CHAMP satellite operated by the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and highly accurate measurements of the...more

The testing facility ELISE (Extraction from a Large Ion Source Experiment) now has been commissioned at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), associated within the Helmholtz Association. It is the world's largest facility of its kind. In the next two years, IPP researchers headed by Prof. Dr Ursel Fantz will use it to test whether a...more

For the first time ever, a team from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research was able to demonstrate that smoking influences the development of allergy-relevant stem cells. Stem cells are not specialised, can multiply without limits and can develop into the various types of cells and tissue comprising an organism. Various progenitor cells...more

Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center have discovered a molecular switch involved in lymphoma development. When the PP4R1 protein is missing, immune cells can divide uncontrolled, migrate through the body and cause tumours in the skin. The cause for this can be a defect in a specific signal pathway: if certain "off switches"...more