Health & Medicine

Telemedicine: Distance in Healthcare

Information and communication technologies are increasingly finding their way into medical practice. (Image: adventtr / iStock) Remote diagnoses, digital health monitoring and networked experts:...

The body’s own “killer cleaning agent”

When salmonella (red) enter a cell, APOL3 (green) attaches to the surface of the bacterium and breaks it down. (Image: Video-Auschnit, Credit: R....

DNA constructs catch viruses

Virus traps made of DNA (white), lined with virus-binding molecules (blue). (Image: Elena-Marie Willner / DietzLab / TUM) So far, there are no effective...

Rejuvenation for the brain?

Microglia (green) and the perineural mesh (pink). (Image: IST Austria In early childhood, new connections form very easily in the brain. With increasing...

Bad room air 9000 years ago

The researchers recorded the emissions from the fireplaces using measuring devices (AQM) in a replica of a house by Çatalhöyük. (Image detail: Shillito...

Lifespan: 130 years are possible

The limit of life expectancy is shifting further back. (Image: ivanastar / iStock) Advances in medicine and technology enable us humans to live to...

Active ingredient from chestnut leaves against MRSA

Leaves and flowers of the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa). (Image: Quave Lab) The leaves of the European sweet chestnut are considered a traditional remedy...

Corona monitoring in wastewater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbczxvT8Cx4 German researchers are exploring the possibility of determining the degree of infection of the population with Sars-CoV-2 through genetic traces of the viruses in...

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