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2022-12-01
Um neue Erkenntnisse zum Effekt der Corona-Pandemie und der stattgehabten Maßnahmen auf den Verlauf verschiedener respiratorischer Erkrankungen zu gewinnen, haben Wissenschaftler:innen mehrerer Forschungseinrichtungen nun das Verbundprojekt RESPINOW gestartet. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Modellierungsplattform, die zum Ziel hat, integrierte Modelle zur Simulation der…
2022-11-25
Prof Alice McHardy heads the department “Computational Biology of Infection Research” at BRICS (Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology), a joint facility of the HZI and the Technische Universität Braunschweig. With the help of computational methods, she examines biological and epidemiological data sets and develops new bioinformatics software. Prof Marc Stadler, head of…
2022-11-08
The Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), founded in Würzburg in 2017, pursues an innovative approach: It links research on ribonucleic acids (RNA) with infection biology. HIRI is a site of the Braunschweig Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in cooperation with the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) and is located on the Würzburg Medical…
2022-11-07
The Zayed Sustainability Prize promotes small and medium-sized enterprises as well as nonprofit organizations and schools for sustainable achievements in the categories of health, nutrition, energy, water and secondary schools. The SORMAS open-source digital platform for early detection of disease outbreaks and epidemic control management impressed the international jury of the…
2022-11-03
More than 4,500 species of bacteria colonize humans. Although their importance for well-being and health as well as for diseases is increasingly appreciated, the underlying molecular mechanisms are still largely unknown. This also applies to Fusobacteria: They are an abundant member of the oral microbiome, but can spread throughout the body and colonize secondary sites, especially…
