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Bacteria engage in a hazardous hide-and-seek
Tonsillitis, scarlet fever or life-threatening infections such as necrotising fasciitis – skin and tissue necrosis of dramatic extent - are caused by the bacterium, Streptococcus pyogenes. This pathogen manages to penetrate into the wall lining of blood vessels. This…
Herpesviruses undercover
Pathogens entering our body only remain unnoticed for a short period. Within minutes our immune cells detect the invader and trigger an immune response. However, some viruses have developed strategies to avoid detection and elimination by our immune system. Researchers…
HZI to award young infection researchers
As in the previous years, the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and the Friends of the HZI are going to honour an excellent young researcher in the field of infection biology. The award was established in 2011 in memory of the former…
More insights from tissue samples
A new way of preparing patient tissue for analyses might soon become the new standard. This is what researchers of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the Research Center Borstel recommend in their current publication in the Journal of Proteome…
We have to get very ill in order to get well more quickly
Elderly people get the flu more often and suffer from the symptoms for longer than younger people. Why this is the case was unclear - until now. Researchers at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany, discovered a possible reason:…
Emmanuelle Charpentier receives prestigious award
Prof Emmanuelle Charpentier from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig is one of the winners of the most renowned award for scientists in Sweden — the Göran Gustafsson Prize. The award was presented at the Annual Ceremony of the Royal Swedish…
Sensitive balance in the immune system
As strange as it may seem, a process called "cellular suicide" is actually crucial for the survival of the entire body. The protein c-FLIPR plays a key role in controlling this process, which is called "apoptosis". Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection…
Wanted: Standards for metagenomics
Metagenomics looks at the entirety of the genomic information of a habitat. There are various methods that can be used in investigations of this type. In fact, so many of them that it is often difficult to find the best fit for a certain analysis. For this reason,…
Promoting ebola research
The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig contributes one project to the newly established German Ebola-Virus Consortium (Ebocon). Sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and established by the German Centre for…
Clostridium difficile – a perfidious germ
This year's lecture series titled "KrankheitsErregend" (PathoGenic) at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig takes a close look at hospital germs. On the heels of the first event on MRSA, the second event of the lecture series scheduled for 8…
