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In future, breast cancer cells will be made to break down the very substances they need to grow. As part of the TaNGo project, biologists and chemists at the UDE are developing molecules that specifically direct the protein Taspase1 into the cell’s own degradation system.

The social side of the climate crisis
Who contributes most to the climate crisis, who is hardest hit? These are some of the questions at the heart of the new doctoral research programme “The Political Economy of the Social-Ecological Transformation” at the UDE.

How does language shape and change democracy?
How do political parties communicate with their members – and what do they say about one another? Who has a voice in the digital public sphere? The new series of the ‘Politische Pausen’ podcast, on the theme of ‘The Language of Democracy’, explores these and other questions. It starts on 15 October.

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