Most people recover quickly and fully from a SARS-CoV-2 infection. However, some patients continue to experience symptoms weeks or even months after the acute stage of infection. This phenomenon is known as “Long Covid”. In order ...
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The new issue of the Leopoldina Newsletter has been published. This time with a review of the statement “Brain Organoids – Model Systems of the Human Brain”, which was published in October. In addition, the winners of the first ...
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Physicist Kerstin Volz and physical chemist Jürgen Janek have reveived the 2022 Greve Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for their fundamental insights into rechargeable batteries. The newly established ...
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Antje Boetius, marine researcher and microbiologist from Bremerhaven, is awarded the Carl-Friedrich-von-Weizsäcker-Prize for her many years of dedication to exploring the deep sea and its influence on material cycles, biodiversity ...
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The Friends of the Leopoldina (Leopoldina Akademie Freundeskreis e.V.) is once again issuing a call for applications for the Johann-Lorenz-Bausch Fellowship for 2023. The fellowship is aimed at junior scientists who are researching ...
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Brain organoids are tissue structures created in the lab, which imitate certain functions of the brain. As a simplified model system, they enable experimental access to questions surrounding the development and function of the human ...
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The US biochemist and Leopoldina member Carolyn R. Bertozzi is being honoured with this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Bertozzi receives the award together with Morten Meldal (Denmark) and K. Barry Sharpless (USA) for developments ...
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Austrian quantum physicist and Leopoldina member Anton Zeilinger is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022. Zeilinger receives this distinction together with quantum scientists Alain Aspect (France) and John F. Clauser (USA). The ...
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Evolutionary researcher and Leopoldina member Svante Pääbo receives this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Swedish molecular biologist and paleogeneticist is awarded for his findings on the genomes of extinct hominids ...
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Cooperation among many disciplines is required to improve the health situation and equity of all people worldwide. At its two-day Annual Assembly 2022, which will begin today in Halle (Saale)/Germany, the German National Academy of ...
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