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...

First cell atlas of the Covid-19 lung

The lungs are particularly affected by Covid-19. (Image: wildpixel / iStock) The Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus causes severe pneumonia that can lead to death. A...

Resistance also in wild chimpanzees

Chimpanzee in Gombe National Park. (Image: Thomas Gillespie) Great apes are susceptible to many infectious diseases in humans, but important weapons against bacterial pathogens...

Mapping the vertebrate genomes

The genome of all vertebrates is to be deciphered (Image: ELIKA, Peterschreibermedia / iStock) The Vertebrate Genome Project has set itself the goal of sequencing...

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