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Better safe than sorry – especially regarding infectious diseases
Mr. Pietschmann, what makes hepatitis C so dangerous? That the infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) often goes unnoticed. The virus is transmitted over blood, nowadays especially in the drug milieu, when people share needles. It causes a chronic infection that can…
Customised, efficient, universal: vaccines 2.0
Physicians have been using the basic principle of vaccination for centuries: They purposefully expose the body to a killed or attenuated pathogen, and the subsequently developed memory immune response prevents a more severe course of the disease following reencounter…
Malicious at the turn of a button
How do harmless bacteria turn into dangerous pathogens? This is a question researchers at the German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF) in Braunschweig are currently investigating. Using the common food germ, Listeria monocytogenes, the scientists have identified a…
Versatile Bacteria Toxin
Some aggressive bacteria are capable of penetrating human body cells and then destroy them from the inside. Just how this is done, for example, by the food germ, Listeria monocytogenes, has been studied by a team of scientists from the German Research Centre for…
Vitamin D puts a brake on activated macrophages
When macrophages, the first line defender cells of the immune system become activated, they produce an inhibitor, which acts back on them to suppress their activity. This has been revealed by the work of scientists at the German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF)…
Life-sustaining stuff
Heme is the pigment responsible for the red colour of blood. All humans and animals need heme because it alone transports life-sustaining oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body. Scientists of the GBF and the Technical University in Braunschweig have resolved…
A Shot to Stop Diabetes in Mice
Some forms of diabetes could feasibly be prevented. Scientists at the German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF) in Braunschweig recently were able to do just that in experiments with mice. Animals with a congenital susceptibility for Type-1 diabetes remained…
Better Quality Water – All Across Europe
Potable water is our most important nutrient. We drink it every day. That's why it is even more important to know what sort of microorganisms are in the water we drink and what diseases these can cause in humans if they occur in sufficient numbers. Scientists at the…
A New Name for the GBF: Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
The German Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF) in Braunschweig has a new name. From July 18, our name will be Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research. The change, we believe, reflects more clearly the scientific focus of our institute. Another reason for the switch…
Interview with Markus Cornberg
Mr Cornberg, how would you describe your first 100 days as Director of the CiiM? Very positive and exciting! This role combines everything that I have wanted to do for quite some time. I have always wanted to advance infection medicine in the area of individualised…
