Health & Medicine

When medicine goes to genes

A questioning look at medical genetic engineering. (Image: Natali_Mis / iStock) Healing with “genetic scissors”, therapies with “tailor-made” cells and babies with “optimized” genes:...

Optimized vaccine production

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gly9AaytKXU A new process for inactivating “dead vaccines” enables vaccines to be produced faster, more environmentally friendly and more efficiently than before. Source: Fraunhofer

Oral flora gives insights into evolution

Tiny particles on fossil teeth can reveal insights into the history of human-microbial interactions. (Image: Werner Siemens Foundation, Felix Wey) The bacteria in our...

Model of stuttering finches

Researchers have experimentally made zebra finches stutter. (Image: thawats / iStock) Millions of people suffer from stuttering, but little is known about the causes...

How stickiness can betray bad guys

A T-cell (yellow) comes into contact with an antigen-presenting cell (blue). Tiny tensile forces occur on the surface, which the T cell can...

New data on sinus vein thrombosis

Vessels of the brain. (Image: Raycat / iStock) An evaluation by the German Society for Neurology confirms: Sinus vein thromboses are more common after...

Hope in the fight against lung cancer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qD90j6VqyA German researchers present promising starting points for the development of therapies in the fight against small cell lung cancer, which was previously difficult to...

Notes in the first business

A baby's first shedding after birth is different from anything that follows. (Image: Coral222 / iSock) A special and surprisingly informative substance: According to...

Recent Articles