At the end of December 2019, the first cases of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus were reported from the Chinese city of Wuhan. Since then, infections with the pathogen appeared on several continents. Strict...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria are one of the greatest threats to global health. In order to alleviate this problem, researchers explore new applications...
The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus can be part of the normal bacterial population inhabiting our body, but can also cause serious infections. This bacterium has often developed resistance to standard antibiotics or...
In the genetic blueprint for proteins, the information for each amino acid is encoded by codons. A codon consists of three consecutive building blocks of messenger RNA (mRNA), a base triplet that encodes exactly one...
Electron microscopy (EM) is not some monotonous assembly-line job, because each assignment poses new challenges. A diverse range of things is magnified and examined, such as immune cells, algae or phages – the work is...
New medicines for treating tuberculosis, malaria and other infectious diseases are still urgently needed, particularly in developing countries. The spread of antibiotic-resistant germs also results in a critical...
The Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Prof Dirk Heinz, the President of Saarland University, Prof Manfred Schmitt, the Managing Director of the Helmholtz Institute for...
Professor Rolf Müller ist mit der Ehrendoktorwürde der Shandong University in China ausgezeichnet worden. Die chinesische Partneruniversität würdigte damit die herausragenden Leistungen von Rolf Müller in der...
Their ideas fight complicated urinary tract infections, ensure sustainable natural resource exploration and supply, and answer previously unanswered questions concerning nephrology and gynecology: Three Helmholtz...
