Oct 15, 20223 minNew approach to gene therapy for childhood bone and soft tissue cancerIn a preclinical study on mice, a team of researchers from the Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), the German Cancer...
Oct 15, 20222 minA specific inhibitor allows to study an enigmatic enzymeThe enzyme HDAC10 is involved in a variety of cellular processes associated with the development of a number of diseases. However, it is...
Oct 15, 20223 minA new class of light-controllable fluorescent dyes designed for super-resolution microscopySmall biocompatible photoactivatable fluorophores, called PaX dyes, enable nanoscale fluorescence imaging with several super-resolution...
Oct 15, 20222 minBiointelligent sensor for measuring viral activityToday, genome editing is almost as easy as programming software. However, the generation of viral vectors as initial material is still...
Oct 15, 20224 minLight-Seq: from images to sequences in contextResearchers have combined advanced light microscopy with next-generation sequencing to create a method to study cells directly in the...
Oct 15, 20223 minIron deficiency suppresses important arm of the innate immune systemTwo proteins ensure that cells can take up iron when needed. If both control proteins are switched off in mice, the animals develop...
Oct 15, 20223 minFirst successful trial for early detection of HPV-related cancer of the pharynxScreening trials for the early detection of rare diseases often fail due to insufficient predictive power of the results. For the rare...
Oct 15, 20225 minInnovative stem cell therapy for chronic woundsNon-healing, chronically inflamed wounds can be very painful and carry the risk of serious infections. The Heidelberg company RHEACELL...
Oct 15, 20224 minSeeing antibiotics in action inside a pathogenic bacteriumNew research by EMBL scientists shows at atomic detail how antibiotics affect the process of protein production inside bacteria Every...