Health & Medicine

How the immune system uses Sars-CoV-2

Intestinal organoid after treatment with interferon gamma: cell nuclei (blue) collect at the edge and trigger an increased production of the ACE2 receptor. ...

Neanderthal mutation changes brain development

The DNA also shapes our brain. (Image: fruttipics / iStock) How does our brain differ from that of Neanderthals? To answer this question,...

BioNTech vaccine is also effective against E484K mutation

The antibodies produced by vaccination also attack mutated viruses. (Image: Christoph Burgstedt / iStock) Vaccines against the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus give hope to contain the...

How southern China became a coronavirus hotspot

Sars-CoV-2 was created in China. (Image: Naeblys / iStock) The Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus most likely originated in a bat in southern China and then jumped...

Faecal transmission could make cancer therapy more effective

In some patients, the skin cancer does not respond to immunotherapy. (Image: Nasekom / iStock) How well people respond to cancer drugs apparently also...

New starting point for diabetes treatment

Model of the insulin-inhibitory receptor "Inceptor" (black). (Image: Helmholtz Munich) A newly discovered receptor could in the future provide a starting point for treating...

Gut microbe makes mothers careless

Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a common intestinal bacterium in humans and animals. There are many different strains, some of which can be...

Corona vaccine: Effective despite mutations

BioNTech's mRNA vaccine is also effective against variants B.1.1.7. (Image: aprott / iStock) The further the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spreads, the more common mutations become....

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