Research competitionClear the way for 'Jugend forscht 2020'!
Under the motto "You can do it!", the 'Jugend forscht' competition is entering a new round: for the 55th time, young people are invited to present their innovative research projects - in the fields of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology.
'Prize of the Federal Minister of Education for the best interdisciplinary work 2019' for Max Asenow (18), Tina Munkewitz (18) and Milena Wiegand (18):
Using fluorescent dyes, vital proteins in cells can be marked and their metabolism made visible. Milena Wiegand, Max Asenow and Tina Munkewitz synthesized two new fluorescent dyes - matao blue I and matao blue II. They used these to stain bacteria, cancer cells and plant samples. Under the fluorescence microscope, they could see that different proteins were marked blue in the different cell types: In the bacteria, the dyes collected at the cell poles, in the cancer cells in the area around the nucleus. Evaluating the analysis data was more difficult than expected. The young researchers therefore developed software that allows the data to be processed more quickly and easily.