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News from Professor Antje Körner, Professor of Metabolic Research at Leipzig University's Faculty of Medicine and Head of the Metabolism Division at the Helmholtz Institute of Metabolic, Obesity and

Cancer is one of the most common causes of death in children worldwide. A research team in which the University of Würzburg is involved wants to change this - and has now received substantial funding for its work.

Most students in German schools rate their health as good. However, almost all'of them get too little physical activity and their health situation is heavily dependent on wealth, age and gender. These are some of the findings of the current HBSC study (Health Behavior in School-aged Children). This nationwide survey involved 6,500 students.

Working with a new Emmy Noether Group, Dr. Pascal Schlosser is investigating how machine learning can aid in understanding the complex relationships between genes, proteins, and diseases Proteins have a multitude of biological functions in the human body. Diseases may develop if there are disruptions in protein production, structure, or function.

Children with Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) develop premature aging symptoms. Karima Djabali, Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), wants to understand the biological m

Heidelberg scientists receive the BIAL Award in Biomedicine worth 300,000 euros Their ground-breaking discovery of how healthy nerve cells in the brain make contact with glioblastoma tumour cells and

Magical texts from Egypt in Coptic script and language are the focus of a research project at the University of Würzburg. They are now being presented for the first time in a 600-page book. A team of scholars spent five years studying them: "magical" texts from Egypt that were written on papyrus, parchment, paper and shards of clay - so-called ostraca - and date from the period between the fourth and twelfth centuries AD.

Scientists provide insights Did Charles Darwin invent the term "evolution" The clear answer is no. Charles Darwin didn't invent the concept of evolution, and he himself rarely used the word. Nevertheless, the British naturalist is seen - rightly - as the creator of the theory of evolution, which explains to us the 'tribal' development of biological species: phylogenesis.

How do immune cells move in infectious regions of the body? And how do newly developed agents reach places, for example, where they can fight tumors? X-ray fluorescence imaging, developed further at Universität Hamburg, provides new insight into these questions. Now a team at Universität Hamburg wants to improve access to this technology in cooperation with Siemens- Healthineers and TU Berlin.

News from When it comes to modern diseases, paediatrician Professor Antje Körner believes that there is too great a focus on adults and not enough on children and adolescents.

Around one million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, each year.

When people develop myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS), the healthy maturation of blood cells is impaired.

Johannes Karges develops anti-cancer agents that work in a targeted manner, rather than adversely affecting the entire body.

A team led by Würzburg hematologist Hermann Einsele has defined a new first-line therapy for bone marrow cancer.

Scientists from Heidelberg and Mainz are collaborating in a joint research project to improve the frequently difficult prognosis of disease progression and hence the treatment options for people with cardiac insufficiency.

In collaboration with 12 partners from 6 countries, Jena University Hospital is establishing the Antivirus Pandemic Preparedness EuropeAn pLatform (APPEAL), a European research initiative aimed at enhancing preparedness for future pandemics.

Researchers at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany have carried out the first comprehensive analysis of some 20 mummy fragments from collections in the University's archives and have presented their findings in "Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology".

Artificial transcription factor reprograms cells of human and different animal species with high efficiency After the discovery of the reprogramming of somatic cells using transcription factors in 2006, induced pluripotent stem cell lines have so far been produced for only a few animal species.

On the road with a physician team in Ghana Six physicians, one goal: A team from the university hospital TUM Klinikum rechts der Isar (MRI) wants to use modern surgical techniques to help improve women's health in the West-African nation of Ghana.

At the international trade fair "Ideas - Inventions - Innovations" iENA 2023 in Nuremberg, scientists from TU Ilmenau did extremely well in the awards for the best inventions: they received three gold, four silver and two bronze medals.

Growth mechanism in T cell lymphomas decoded A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has decoded the factor that makes T cell lymphomas grow comparatively rapidly: A missing "emergency s