Tübingen

American  

[too-bing-uhn, ty-bing-uhn] / ˈtu bɪŋ ən, ˈtü bɪŋ ən /

noun

1. a city in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany, between the Neckar and Ammer rivers: known for a highly respected university.

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Tübingen British  

/ ˈtjuːbɪŋən /

noun

1. a town in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: university (1477). Pop: 83 137 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

"The lagerpetid's brain already showed features linked to improved vision, including an enlarged optic lobe, an adaptation that may have later helped their pterosaur relatives take to the skies," says corresponding author Mario Bronzati, a researcher at University of Tübingen, Germany.

From Science Daily

Benesch’s childhood in Tübingen, a German city southwest of Stuttgart, may have been tube-deficient, but it wasn’t movie-free, and she became fascinated with how films were made.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s an important line of inquiry, says Patrick Schmidt, an archaeologist at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen who was not involved with the study.

From Science Magazine

"Our experiments highlight the presence of an ion channel within the energy production machinery in breast cancer cells that promotes profound bioenergetic changes and ultimately triggers the growth of breast cancer cells in an oxygen-depleted environment, such as that found in a solid tumour," concludes senior author Robert Lukowski, Professor of Experimental Pharmacology at the University of Tübingen.

From Science Daily

Researchers at the Lukowski lab, University of Tübingen, Germany, together with inter-/national collaboration partners, have now demonstrated that these metabolic processes rely on ions such as potassium and calcium, and their dynamics are regulated by the 'large-conductance Ca2+ activated K+ channel' -- or BKCa.

From Science Daily