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Quick Test to Protect Children from Heart Disease
A streptococcal infection may initially cause nothing more than a relatively harmless sore throat. It can, however, also lead to potentially fatal disease or lifelong disability. The outcome of a primary streptococcal infection depends on the strain of bacteria involved…
Advanced Training for Young Scientists in Lower Saxony
The goal of the Helmholtz International Research School for Infection Biology is training top-notch young scientists for cutting-edge biomedical infection research. A PhD program open to young talented early stage researchers from all over the world is scheduled to…
Iron Rivets in Cellular Building Blocks
The fact that Ferroplasma acidiphilum, a single-celled organism lacking a protective cell wall, is capable of living in sulfuric acid is already extraordinary. But what really makes the microbe unique is its unusual relationship to iron. Researchers in Braunschweig and…
New antibiotic candidates from Braunschweig
A group of antibiotic natural products discovered at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig points out a new mode of action against pathogenic bacteria. Isolated from myxobacteria, the substances prevent an enzym of the pathogens from being…
Biofilms use chemical weapons
Bacteria rarely come as loners; more often they grow in crowds and squat on surfaces where they form a community together. These so-called biofilms develop on any surface that bacteria can attach themselves to. The dilemma we face is that neither disinfectants and…
Argyrin: natural substance raises hope for new cancer therapies
The effective treatment of many forms of cancer continues to pose a major problem for medicine. Many tumours fail to respond to standard forms of chemotherapy or become resistant to the medication. Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in…
Purple extremist thrives under inhospitable conditions
Mild environmental conditions are a prerequisite for life. Strong acids or dissolved metallic salts in high concentrations are detrimental to both humans and to simpler life forms, such as bacteria. Such conditions destroy proteins, ensuring that all biological…
10 years of pharmaceutical research at the HIPS
At this year's symposium of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) on 27 and 28 June, the focus was on the fight against antibiotic-resistant pathogens. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the HIPS, the specialist audience had two…
“Every day I feel that I am doing something meaningful"
She had never been afraid of numbers. Mathematics and science were her favourite subjects even back in her school days. But Alice McHardy never thought that she would end up working as a researcher in a field of information technology when she enrolled in biochemistry…
“Big data is one of the big topics of the future, also for infection research”
Prof Kalinke, there are major changes being made at TWINCORE at the moment. Why is that? In recent months, several research group leaders have taken up new positions at other research institutes. We are proud that our people have been so successful in the selection…