Press Releases

The presented list of press releases in English is only a selection of our German press texts. For the time being, these translated press releases focus primarily on science and research at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

10.09.2018: A study of ants provides information on the evolution of social insects

One gene in particular determines whether an ant becomes queen or worker   ...

30.08.2018: Gutenberg Teaching Award 2018 goes to Geoffrey Brennan

Mainz University honors Australian economist for the development of innovative study programs and his long-standing commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching   ...

21.08.2018: Air pollution leads to cardiovascular diseases

International team of experts from Mainz, London and Cleveland reports on mechanisms that cause vascular damage   ...

20.08.2018: Energy-efficient spin current can be controlled by magnetic field and temperature

SCMR effect simplifies the design of fundamental spintronic components  ...

17.08.2018: Magnetic antiparticles offer new horizons for information technologies

Computer simulations reveal new behavior of antiskyrmions in gradually increased electric currents   ...

06.08.2018: Distrust of power influences choice of medical procedures

Complementary and alternative medicine benefit from the credence given to conspiracy theories and the associated skepticism towards existing power structures   ...

25.07.2018: A human endogenous tumor blocker discovered

Scientists of the Mainz University Medical Center have discovered novel properties of a human protein which acts as an inhibitor of virus infections and cancer   ...

24.07.2018: Detecting damage in non-magnetic steel with the help of magnetism

Researchers at JGU and the University of Kaiserslautern publish results of study of materials testing   ...

24.07.2018: Graduate School of Excellence MAINZ awards visiting professorships 2018

MAINZ Visiting Professorships 2018 for Anna I. Krylov from the University of Southern California, USA, and Klaas-Jan Tielrooij from the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Spain   ...

20.07.2018: Targeting headaches and tumors with nano-submarines

New method of transporting drugs published in Nature Nanotechnology   ...

19.07.2018: IceCube researchers manage for the first time to identify the source of a neutrino from the depths of the cosmos

Elementary particle originated from a galaxy three billion light years from Earth / Black hole acts as particle accelerator   ...

18.07.2018: Lateral gene transfer enables chemical protection of beetles against antagonistic fungi

Jumping genes in symbionts explain how a beetle and a marine tunicate are protected by highly similar compounds   ...

10.07.2018: East German past and mental health

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research sponsors Mainz-based joint research project on risk and protective factors arising from life in the GDR to the sum of EUR 3.8 million  ...

05.07.2018: Scientists develop highly sensitive molecular optical pressure sensor

Optical pressure measurements possible in solid state and in solution / Molecular ruby for use in materials sciences or catalysis   ...

05.07.2018: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ranked number 1 in the natural sciences in Germany in the 2018 DFG Funding Atlas

Researchers of the Mainz University Medical Center publish new findings in the field of neuroregeneration in Nature Neuroscience   ...

02.07.2018: Neanderthals practiced close-range hunting 120,000 years ago

International team of researchers studied hunting lesions on fallow deer   ...

28.06.2018: Synthesis of opium alkaloids using electric current

A selective electrochemical reaction enables the synthesis of thebaine and offers a solution to a long-standing synthetic challenge   ...

27.06.2018: Laser spectroscopy measurements reveal size and shape of the nucleus of nobelium

Precise measurement of the optical excitation of atomic levels in the atomic shell of three isotopes of the heavy element 102   ...

25.06.2018: Antidiabetic action of natural fatty acid derivatives not confirmed

Team of researchers at Sanofi and Mainz University finds no positive action of isomers of the fatty acid derivatives 5- and 9-PAHSA in diabetes models  ...

25.06.2018: New research project on cultural historiography in Russia during the so-called Sattelzeit

Historians look at Russia in the late 18th and early 19th century to learn how a people does create the concept of its own history  ...