Intestinal bacteria are suspected of causing cardiovascular disease, since they produce trimethylamine as a metabolic product that is hazardous to humans. They utilise food ingredients that are present mainly in meat...
In recent years, more and more pathogens have become resistant to previously time-proven antibiotics. This scenario gives scientists all over the world cause to find new anti-infective substances and to develop them for...
More and more pathogens are developing resistances to antibiotics. There is therefore an urgent need for new anti-infectives. In this regard, Eva Medina of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research is looking for...
Cells inside the human body contain a flexible polymer network called the cytoskeleton which consists of actin filaments - and other components - and undergoes constant assembly and disassembly. This turnover of actin...
Many bacteria move by rotating long, thin filaments called flagella. Flagella are made of several tens of thousands building blocks outside the bacterial cell and grow up to ten times longer than the bacterial cell...
There is a continuing need for effective vaccinations against viruses which specifically infect the liver. According to the World Health Organization WHO, approximately 400 million people around the world are infected...
Patients afflicted by myeloproliferative neoplasia – a group of chronic malignant bone marrow diseases – bear a mutation in their haematopoietic stem cells. The mutation leads to the bone marrow producing too many blood...
Die Grippewelle ist da. Deutschland schnieft und hustet. Zehntausende leiden auch 2017 wieder unter der Grippe. Die Bundesländer Baden-Württemberg, Thüringen und Sachsen waren zuletzt besonders von den Infekten...
In the last few years, previously unknown viruses or viruses, which were considered eliminated, have been unveiled: last year, the World Health Organization WHO declared “A Public Health Emergency of International...
