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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…
Helmholtz to Fund International Partnerships in Health and Matter Research
“I congratulate the three selected labs,” says Otmar D. Wiestler, President of the Helmholtz Association. “They proved themselves in a highly competitive contest and are now backed by considerable financial support and international partnerships to advance socially…
How bacteria imprint the intestinal immune system in newborns
The regulatory T cells (or "Tregs" for short) play a very important role in our immune system: They teach other immune cells which dangerous invaders to attack and which harmless to ignore. In doing so, the Tregs enable the immune cells to be tolerant to foreign…
