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Taking the plunge © Frank Schinski

Taking the plunge

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Frank Schinski

Taking the plunge

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This photograph was awarded 1. place in the category "Fascination of Research".

Mice serve as laboratory animals, since their genetic information is similar to that of humans. At the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, they are used to research the significance of physical motion for the course of Alzheimer′s disease.

Award winners

Audience
prize

Wonderful world of music

Faces of Research

Former lignite strip mine in Zwenkau

Metal compound under scrutiny

Adlershof - Reconstructing Space

Fascination of Research

Taking the plunge

Aspergillus niger

Further nominations

Start-up difficulties at the "New Railway Technology" research initiative, Paderborn

Ariane rocket stage

ATV in the vacuum chamber

Making fizzing candy powder

Tracking down new shapes

Research at a high level

Crystallography

Laminar flow box

Organic light-emitting diodes

Lots of space for new files

Construction of a new cleanroom at AMD Saxony

Restorer with UV magnifying glass

Robotic chin scratch

Testing lab for washing machines

Zebra fish colony

Fighting anthrax

Chip production

A solid-state chemist on vacation

Lipid membranes

Magnetism of helium

Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle

Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle

Suicide for the greater good

Tesla transformer

Tri-block copolymers