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Helmholtz gets three more start-ups off the ground
“Scientists at Helmholtz research many questions that are important to the well of our society. But in order to take their results to market respectively in an application, some start-up assistance is helpful,” says Otmar D. Wiestler, President of the Helmholtz…
Ein Besuch im Krankenhaus
Es gibt zurzeit wohl nur wenige Themen, die die medizinische Welt so beschäftigen wie Krankenhausinfektionen, vor allem, weil viele dieser Infektionen mit Antibiotikaresistenzen zusammenhängen. Aber warum sind diese Infektionen so ein Problem? Meist sind…
Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen Sie Ihre Türklinke
Wie bekämpfen Zimmerpflanzen Schimmelpilze und halten unsere Räume gesund? Wie schaffen es Katzen, ein Gen zu deaktivieren, das Asthmaerkrankungen befördert? Dank Mikroben. Die kleinsten Mitbewohner haben zwar oft einen schlechten Ruf, aber sie erledigen im Haushalt…
Jörg Vogel again honoured as “Highly Cited Researcher”
The basis for the annual evaluation of scientific citations is the database "Web of Science Core Collection", which lists scientific articles from around 21,100 scientific journals. For this year's evaluation, Clarivate Analytics considered the period from 2008 to 2018.…
New Helmholtz Institute at the Greifswald Science Location
The HZI welcomes the decision of the Bundestag to strengthen infection research and to incorporate the Greifswald site into the HZI. "This shows the great recognition of the HZI's scientific expertise in the research of infectious diseases and in the development of new…
A new tool to direct CRISPR to multiple targets
The researchers at the HIRI developed a powerful means to assemble CRISPR arrays, revealing properties to guide CRISPR array design and enabling highly multiplexed targeting. Employing this new approach revealed new insights into the biology of CRISPR-Cas systems, the…
How bacteria turn off an antibiotic
Pathogenic bacteria have developed various mechanisms protecting them from antibiotics. Some simply expel the substances that are toxic to them, whereas others alter their cell wall structure so that antibiotics never manage to get into the cell. Other pathogens change…
Jürgen Wehland Award goes to molecular biologist Katherine Beckham
Bacterial pathogens have an arsenal of molecular tools that they need in order to be able to efficiently infect a host organism. Researchers refer to these tools as virulence factors. This includes specific structures of the bacteria, but also protein molecules that…
2018 Technology Transfer Award goes to an HZI spin-off company
Before a newly detected agent, used to fight for example a bacterial or viral pathogen, can be approved for use as medication, it must pass various test studies: The first pre-clinical studies are done on cell cultures and animals, after which follow several clinical…
Staying a step ahead of the game
Unicellular parasites belonging to the genus Trypanosoma cause sleeping sickness in humans. Sleeping sickness is a debilitating and potentially lethal disease in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is transmitted by the tsetse fly. Prof Nicolai Siegel, who heads a research group…
