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The director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden receives the award for the discovery of condensates - cell droplets without a membrane In 2009, Hyman and hi

Treatment of rare tumors: In addition to soft tissue tumors, the MHH is the only center in Lower Saxony to be certified for bone sarcomas.

EU supports multicentre project with a total of 6.75 million euros Hepatitis D is by far the most severe form of chronic viral hepatitis, often leading to liver failure, liver cancer and death.

If mechanoluminescent materials are subjected to external mechanical stress, they emit visible or invisible light. Such excitation can occur due to bending or gentle pressure, for example, but also completely contact-free through ultrasound. In this way, the effect can be triggered remotely and light can be brought to places that normally tend to be in the dark, for example in the human body.

Huda Zoghbi and Adrian Bird receive the International Prize for Translational Neuroscience 2022 of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation for their findings on the causes of Rett syndrome The brain is one of nature's most complex structures.

Two-thirds of the German population are concerned about new corona mutations; one-fifth of the population is very worried.

Since 1972, the number of children being born every year in Germany has been lower than the number of people dying. Demographic change is impacting on our society. A growing number of older and old people means, among other things, that there is an increasing demand for healthcare services. In this interview with Kathrin Nolte , Prof. Klaus Berger , Director of the Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, and his deputy, Prof. André Karch, talk about the challenges this will entail for research and healthcare.

Freiburg scientists at IMBIT conduct interdisciplinary research on human-machine interfaces With an opening ceremony on May 18, 2022, the State of Baden-Württemberg inaugurated the new research center "Institute for Machine-Brain Interfacing Technology" (IMBIT) at the University of Freiburg.

05/13/2022 Life-like organ replicas - so-called 3D organoids - are a good way to research disease processes.

With grants of as much as five million euros, Humboldt Professorships are the best-endowed research prize in Germany.

An interdisciplinary and pan-university team under the aegis of the Department of Informatics at Universität Hamburg will develop intelligent assistance systems designed to facilitate remote diagnosis.

German Heart Centre Munich and TUM Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence collaborate The objective of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) lighthouse project "Digitaler Herz-OP" ("Digital Heart Surgery") is to enable more precise and lower-impact treatment of heart disease.

Immune cells against previous Sars-CoV-2 variants also recognize Omicron well and can thus protect against severe disease / Vaccination can improve immune response even after infection / Study by Frei

Future process aims at preserving the advantages of PEGylation for the use in nanomedicine while avoiding recognition of the new PEG structures by the immune system Since the first PEGylated drug was

APIS Assay Technologies Ltd acquires startup Clickmer Systems, which is developing antibody alternative The British company APIS Assay Technologies Ltd has acquired the University of Bonn's spin-off project Clickmer Systems, which was further developed at the Life Science Inkubator (LSI), for a single-digit million euro sum.

Over the next three years, the participating partner institutes from Germany, Israel and Finland want to jointly develop intelligent electronic sensors that can detect and digitally transmit healthy and pathologically altered body odours.

Spindiag, a University of Freiburg and Hahn-Schickard spin-off, has been recognized for its research-based development Spindiag GmbH, together with the University of Freiburg and the Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für angewandte Forschung e.V.

Specialising as a physician while doing a second doctorate in the natural sciences, medical professional Nadine Heiden initially considered this idea an experiment as there are not yet many colleagues in her field who are going down this road. -I always wanted to do both - take care of patients and do research,- the 30-year-old says.

Study of the Universities of Yale, Harvard and Bonn shows that the disease is often caused by disrupted brain development Hydrocephalus in children often has completely different causes than previously assumed.

Joint project led by the University of Bonn to receive around 20 million euros over the next four years The North Rhine-Westphalian state government is supporting five outstanding research networks in pioneering research fields with a total of 81.2 million euros.

European Center for Allergy Research Foundation awards seal for apple varieties In a few years, apples that are officially deemed allergy-friendly will be avaiable supermarkets.

Health and logistics researchers at Göttingen University analyze attitudes in Germany and America The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the world.