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From the mine to the petri dish
Alexander, you recently won the Saarland state competition Jugend forscht in the field of biology - congratulations! What was your project about? The project focuses on the search for interesting bacteria from copper mines that are capable of producing new useful…
Martin Korte: „Long COVID can become manifest even after a mild course of COVID-19“
Prof Korte, what exactly is long COVID? There is no exact definition of the term long COVID, neither in the professional literature nor in public perception. I understand it in the broadest sense to mean signs, symptoms and sequelae that persist or develop after an…
A herpes virus as a vaccination helper
Vector-based vaccines saw their public breakthrough with the development of several SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. With this technology, harmless helper viruses transport the genetic code for an antigen into host cells. The host cells produce the antigen and present it on their…
Future Day at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
The HZI has been supporting the ‘Future Day’ career guidance project since 2002 and, after a long break due to the Corona pandemic, the centre opened its doors again this year to encourage young people to take an interest in science. Initial practical experience is…
Unlocking the world of bacteria
Bacteria populate virtually every habitat on Earth, including within and on our own bodies. Understanding and engineering bacteria can lead to new methods for diagnosing, treating, and preventing infections. Additionally, it presents opportunities to protect crops from…
Innovative vaccine development with heavy ion beams
Most of the vaccines approved for human use either live attenuated or inactivated viruses (e.g. influenza); newer approaches are based on subcellular components of the infectious agents or on the genetic information encoding for these antigens, such as vector or mRNA…
Chemist Prof. Stephan A. Sieber receives Inhoffen Medal 2024
After the discovery of many antibiotics in the mid-20th century to combat multi-resistant bacteria, the number of new compounds has stagnated. Most antibiotics in use today are focused on a small number of cellular targets. This has allowed pathogenic bacteria to…
One Health expedition to the Central African Republic
A delegation of researchers recently traveled to the Central African Republic to strengthen cooperations with local stakeholders in the fields of public health and animal health management. Fabian Leendertz, Katharina Schaufler, Fee Zimmermann, Livia Patrono and…
How members of the microbiome specifically fight salmonella infections
Among other findings, they discovered that bacteria of the Klebsiella oxytoca species in particular exert pressure on salmonella in several ways. Eventually, these findings could one day be used to develop a therapy that takes a completely different approach to the…
State Secretary Judith Pirscher visits the HZI
The MICROSTAR project, with a volume of around 30 million euros, aims to find solutions to the increasing global challenges posed by infectious diseases. Over billions of years of evolution, all organisms have developed a variety of mechanisms to resist difficult…
