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2021-03-01
T cell precursors originate in the bone marrow and mature in the thymus. They then circulate through the bloodstream and secondary lymphoid tissues in search of foreign or altered proteins. Tissue-resident T cells are a subset of T lymphocytes that have left the bloodstream and settled in tissues. These immune cells can remain there for a long time. A new training network called…
2021-02-25
SORMAS (Abkürzung für „Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System“) wurde vom Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI) entwickelt und ist nach einer Analyse der Johns-Hopkins-Universität eines der international erfolgreichsten digitalen Systeme für das Fall- und Kontaktpersonenmanagement bei COVID-19. Ein speziell für Gesundheitsämter im Rahmen der…
2021-02-23
Around 71 million people worldwide are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). One reason why no vaccine against the virus has been found to date is that there are numerous virus variants, some of which differ by more than 30 percent from each other. Scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, TWINCORE and the Hannover Medical School (MHH) have now…
2021-02-18
Um die Performance des NMI-Antikörpertests (MULTICOV-AB) zu beurteilen, verglichen die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler um Dr. Nicole Schneiderhan-Marra, Leiterin des Bereichs Pharma und Biotech am NMI, die Testergebnisse mit denen kommerzieller Tests. Im Gegensatz zu den Antikörpertests von Roche, Siemens und Euroimmun konnte der MULTICOV-AB alle negativen Proben korrekt…
2021-01-28
The group behind the article includes Viola Priesemann from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Melanie Brinkmann from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Brunswick, and Andreas Peichl from the ifo Institute. “A determined and coordinated European response to the pandemic is also necessary from an economic point of view due to…
