Weltweit infizieren sich immer mehr Menschen mit dem neuartigen Coronavirus, betroffen sind mehr als 140 Länder (Stand 15.03.2020). Deshalb hat die Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO inzwischen die Situation zur Pandemie...
The human immune system can recognize and eliminate not only germs but also cancer cells. This is why treatments with weakened germs can help the immune system in its fight against cancer. Researchers at the Max Planck...
More than three percent of the world's population (about 260 million humans) are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Worldwide 880,000 humans die each year from the sequelae: liver cirrhosis and...
Die erste Abwehrreaktion des Immunsystems auf eine Infektion mit einem Virus ist die Ausschüttung von Interferonen. Diese Botenstoffe, die zu den Zytokinen gehören, lösen einerseits antiviral wirksame Mechanismen in...
At the end of December 2019, the first cases of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus were reported from the Chinese city of Wuhan. Since then, infections with the pathogen appeared on several continents. Strict...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria are one of the greatest threats to global health. In order to alleviate this problem, researchers explore new applications...
The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus can be part of the normal bacterial population inhabiting our body, but can also cause serious infections. This bacterium has often developed resistance to standard antibiotics or...
In the genetic blueprint for proteins, the information for each amino acid is encoded by codons. A codon consists of three consecutive building blocks of messenger RNA (mRNA), a base triplet that encodes exactly one...
Electron microscopy (EM) is not some monotonous assembly-line job, because each assignment poses new challenges. A diverse range of things is magnified and examined, such as immune cells, algae or phages – the work is...
