Targeted pest control with RNA spray

Environmentally friendly crop protection: Protecting sugar beets from yellowing viruses

05-Jan-2024 - Protecting plants efficiently against pests without harming other organisms — this is the objective of the joint research project ViVe_Beet, which is coordinated by the Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). Scientists from the JKI ...

Caterpillars as a replacement for mammalian models in preclinical research

Research team developed an innovative and unique imaging platform

06-Dec-2022 - Inflammation research is becoming more ethical and economical: caterpillars help to understand gut inflammation and enable the faster and more efficient development of new therapies. Insects, like caterpillars, suffer from the same or related diseases as humans because 75 % of genes associated ...

Spider venom for therapeutics and bioinsecticides

New biomolecules from wasp spider venom

05-Jan-2022 - The venom of a single spider can contain up to 3000 components. These components, mostly peptides, can be used to develop promising drug leads for the treatment of diseases. Spider venom can also be used as a biological pesticide. A team of scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular ...

“Sustainable tires through dandelions – innovations from biology, technology and agriculture” joint research project shows that a new, alternative raw material supply is possible

Team of Continental, Fraunhofer IME and the University of Münster Nominated for Federal President's Award

16-Sep-2021 - Dr. Carla Recker (Continental), Prof. Dr. Dirk Prüfer (University of Münster) and Dr. Christian Schulze Gronover (Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME) have been nominated for the Federal President's Award for Technology and Innovation 2021 (“Deutscher Zukunftspreis ...

A health check based on epigenetics

AI helps determine human biological age

07-Aug-2019 - Chemical reactions and molecular modifications change the genome of each and every human over the course of their lifetime. These modifications can result in disease, but they also provide a basis for determining a person's biological age. Fraunhofer scientists participating in the project ...

Detecting pathogens using quantum technology

08-May-2019 - Safe diagnoses of diseases, identification of multidrug-resistant germs, detection of beginning epidemics at an early stage or detection of toxins and pathogens in drinking water and food in even the lowest concentrations – these are major challenges and goals of current research programs. One of ...

Jacobs University and Fraunhofer IME signed collaboration agreement

12-Jun-2018 - Jacobs University Bremen and the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, announce their intention to set up a new strategic collaboration to establish joint research projects in the area of antibiotic drug discovery and promote the exchange of students, researchers and ...

Risks in your food

Better treatment of food allergies

05-Sep-2016 - Food allergies have been on the increase for years. There is currently only one solution for patients: avoid allergy-triggering products. Fraunhofer researchers are making an important contribution to consumer protection by developing methods to specifically and reliably detect allergenic ...

Virus-resistant grapevines

06-Jul-2009 - A good wine needs to ripen. But it's a long way to the barrel. Even before the harvest, the grapevines have to overcome all kinds of obstacles. Extremely hot or rainy periods can destroy entire crops, not to mention the wide variety of pests that can appear on the scene. Bugs such as the vine ...

ProteoNic and Fraunhofer IME sign Research License and start collaboration on protein expression in plants

11-Feb-2009 - ProteoNic and Fraunhofer Institute of Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (Fraunhofer IME) announced their collaboration regarding protein expression in plant systems. Fraunhofer IME has obtained a Research License to use ProteoNic's UNic(tm) expression technology in a variety of its research ...