University of Bonn
The University of Bonn was established in 1818 in Bonn, Germany. Today, the university has more than 27,000 students. Among notable University of Bonn graduates are seven Nobel Laureates, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Schumpeter and more. The University of Bonn is noted for its medical genetics, mathematics, physics, chemical biology and neurosciences programs. The University of Bonn publishes its research highlights and abstracts on-line. The University of Bonn is respected world-wide for its research in the sciences.
Meinhard Heinze-Haus
Poppelsdorfer Allee 49, 53115 Bonn
Researchers decode a kind of trigger switch for the conversion of fat cells
For a long time, scientists have dreamed of converting undesirable white fat cells into brown fat cells and thus simply have excess pounds melt away. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now gotten ...
Medical research
Apr 23, 2013 |
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Success in patients with major depression: For the first time, physicians stimulated patients' medial forebrain bundles
Researchers from the Bonn University Hospital implanted pacemaker electrodes into the medial forebrain bundle in the brains of patients suffering from major depression with amazing results: In six out of ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 09, 2013 |
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Microbubbles improve myocardial remodelling after infarction
German scientists from the Bonn University Hospital successfully tested a method in mice allowing the morphological and functional sequelae of a myocardial infarction to be reduced. Tiny gas bubbles are made to oscillate ...
Medical research
Feb 21, 2013 |
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Viagra converts fat cells
Researchers from the University of Bonn treated mice with Viagra and made an amazing discovery: The drug converts undesirable white fat cells and could thus potentially melt the unwelcome "spare tire" around the midriff. ...
Medical research
Jan 17, 2013 |
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Link between inflammatory process and progression of Alzheimer's disease
An international team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the University of Bonn and the Center for Advanced European Studies and Research in Germany have shown that a well-known immune and ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Dec 19, 2012 |
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Researchers discover adverse effects of Bisphenol A on calcium channels
(Medical Xpress)—Bisphenol A, a substance found in many synthetic products, is considered to be harmful, particularly, for fetuses and babies. Researchers from the University of Bonn have now shown in experiments on cells ...
Medical research
Dec 06, 2012 |
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Risk aversity visible in the brain
Some people live their lives by the motto "no risk - no fun!" and avoid hardly any risks. Others are clearly more cautious and focus primarily on safety when investing and for other business activities. Scientists ...
Neuroscience
Nov 26, 2012 |
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Testosterone increases honesty: Study examines the biological background of lying
Testosterone is considered the male hormone, standing for aggression and posturing. Researchers around Prof. Dr. Armin Falk, an economist from the University of Bonn, have now been able to demonstrate that ...
Medical research
Oct 10, 2012 |
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Researchers discover how melanoma cells circumvent the immune system
Melanoma is so dangerous because it tends to metastasize early on. New treatment approaches utilize, among other things, the ability of the immune defense to search out and destroy malignant cells. Yet this strategy is often ...
Cancer
Oct 10, 2012 |
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Researchers decipher manic gene
Flying high, or down in the dumps—individuals suffering from bipolar disorder alternate between depressive and manic episodes. Researchers from the University of Bonn and the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 01, 2012 |
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Internet addiction—Causes at the molecular level
Everybody is talking about Internet addiction. Medically, this phenomenon has not yet been as clearly described as nicotine or alcohol dependency. But a study conducted by researchers from the University of Bonn and the Central ...
Addiction
Aug 29, 2012 |
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How 'beige' fat makes the pounds melt away
Researchers from the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried have decoded a signal path that could boost the burning of body fat. Mice that are missing a signal switch called VASP are ...
Medical research
Aug 28, 2012 |
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Researchers decode molecular mechanism that sheds light on how trauma can become engraved in the brain
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers decode a molecular mechanism that sheds light on how trauma can become engraved in the brain
Neuroscience
Jul 06, 2012 |
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Therapeutic approach for patients with severe depression
Brain pacemakers have a long-term effect in patients with the most severe depression. This has now been proven by scientists from the Bonn University Medical Center. Eleven patients took part in the study over a period of ...
Neuroscience
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Researchers decode a puzzling movement disorder
Neurodegenerative diseases represent one of the greatest challenges of our aging society. However, investigation into these diseases is made particularly difficult due to the limited availability of human brain tissue. Scientists ...
Medical research
Nov 25, 2011 |
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