Lescroart, Nogales-Ascarrunz, et al. demonstrate that the contentious tiger cat species complex consists of five cryptic species. Based on analyses of 38 whole genomes from the Neotropical cat genus L...

W2 Professorship

IPB Press Release, September 3, 2026 A great success for plant research at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) in Halle: The independent junior research group leader Mariana Schuster has been awarded a highly funded ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council for her FRONTERA project. Over a period of five years and with funding of 1.5 million euros, she and her team will investigate how the targeted cleavage of membrane proteins regulates the immune defense of plants.

The Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH) is seeking to fill a   Full Professorship (W3) for “Biochemistry” (f/m/d)     as soon as possib...

Inositol pyrophosphate messengers regulate arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis and phosphate uptake in Lotus japonicus.

Contrary to common belief, the acid sprays of carpenter ants contain lipids and antifungal peptides, aiding in disease protection.

Despite the significance of nicotine, a neuroactive alkaloid produced by tobacco, its biosynthesis has remained elusive. Here, the authors report the in vitro and in planta reconstruction of a fo...

KJ Muldoon is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

Scientists are testing whether GLP-1 drugs can help to cut cravings for cigarettes, alcohol and opioids — as well as food.

Microflora Danica—an atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes—reveals that although human-disturbed habitats have high alpha diversity, species reoccur, revealing hidden homogeneity.

Covering: 2000 to 2025 The Lamiaceae family, the sixth largest among angiosperms, is renowned for its rich diversity of terpenoids, many of which exhibit remarkable bioactivities, including…

The extraction of plant essential oils (EOs) and analysis by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) are standard methods when studying aromatic plants and the chemical composition of ...

Xanthanolide-type sesquiterpene lactones (STLs) are promising candidates for anti-cancer drug development. Since the middle of the last century, when the structure of the first xanthanolide-type STL ...

Sesquiterpene lactones (STLs) are bitter tasting plant specialized metabolites derived from farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) that contain a characteristic lactone ring. STLs can be found in many plant ...

Covering: 2000 to 2025The Lamiaceae family, the sixth largest among angiosperms, is renowned for its rich diversity of terpenoids, many of which exhibit remarkable bioactivities, including anti-inflam...

Covering: 2000 to 2025The Lamiaceae family, the sixth largest among angiosperms, is renowned for its rich diversity of terpenoids, many of which exhibit remarkable bioactivities, including anti-inflam...

The best results come when a human and the model work together.

On Friday 14 March 2025, Member States' representatives (Coreper) endorsed the Council's negotiating mandate on the regulation on plants obtained by new genomic techniques (NGTs) and their food and fe...

Nature Metabolism, Published online: 28 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s42255-025-01239-4Discovery of metabolites prevails amid in-source fragmentation

Lipids play crucial roles in plant–microbe interactions, functioning as structural components, signaling molecules, and microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs). However, the mechanisms underly...

Sesquiterpene lactones (STLs) are bitter tasting plant specialized metabolites derived from farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) that contain a characteristic lactone ring. STLs can be found in many plant ...

Stabsstelle Zentrale Kommunikation der Uni Halle. Impressum: https://uni-halle.de/impressum

Das Narrativ vom »gefährlichen Ausländer« gehört zum Markenkern der AfD. Sie hat es mit langem Atem strategisch in den Mainstream eingeschleust und die Union überlistet: mit gezielter Realitätsverzerr...

The extraction of plant essential oils (EOs) and analysis by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) are standard methods when studying aromatic plants and the chemical composition of ...

Chicory roots produce inulin, a dietary fiber, as well as large quantities of bitter sesquiterpene l