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» Published on 24. März 2014

Nanomedicine decodes heart disease mechanism

Result of scientific cooperation between Bielefeld and Bad Oeynhausen

Biophysicists at Bielefeld University have contributed decisively to an international study on the genetic disease ARVC. ARVC (arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy) is a dangerous form of a heart disease. It leads to sudden cardiac death and is more widespread than previously assumed. These findings were published yesterday (06.03.2014) by a research team from Canada, Denmark, Germany, and the United States in the online version of the renowned European Heart Journal. ‘This study is also an outcome of many years of productive cooperation with the medical scientists at the Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen’, stresses Professor Dr. Dario Anselmetti from Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Physics. He and his team of nano- and biophysicists have been using cell nanomechanics to study the genetic mutation.

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» Published on 15. März 2014

Would you believe your hand could turn into marble?

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» Published on 12. März 2014

All the threads come together at Bielefeld University

Erasmus Mundus doctoral programme in economics

Starting today, Bielefeld University is coordinating the ‘European Doctorate in Economics - Erasmus Mundus (EDEEM)’ – an international doctoral programme in economics. The following seven  partner universities are cooperating in this doctoral training programme financed by the  European Union: Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France), Bielefeld University (Germany), Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Italy), Universiteit van Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal). All EDEEM doctoral students will study for three years, attend at least two of the partner universities, and receive a joint doctoral degree.

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» Published on 28. Februar 2014

Species conservation poised to benefit from DNA advances

An international team including Dr Joseph Hoffman from Bielefeld University has shown that advanced DNA sequencing technologies can be used to accurately measure the levels of inbreeding in wild animal populations. The research led by Dr Joseph Hoffman of the Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Germany, and senior author Dr Kanchon Dasmahapatra of the Department of Biology at York, may help efforts to conserve rare species.

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» Published on 19. Februar 2014

The number one human–robot conference in the world comes to Bielefeld

International researchers to meet in the CITEC building on the North Campus

The most important conference in the world on human–robot interaction will be held at Bielefeld University from Monday 3 to Thursday 6 March. In previous years, the ‘ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction’ (HRI) has been hosted in Tokyo (Japan), Boston (USA), and Lausanne (Switzerland).

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