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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…
Shining a new light on the tug-of-war between virus and host
When RNA viruses, including the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, infect our cells, they utilize regulatory RNA elements to recruit proteins of virus and host in order to execute their own gene expression program and enable the production of viral progeny. Understanding the…
What defines a human and healthy microbiome?
Scientists from the Collaborative Research Center 1182 "Origin and Function of Metaorganisms" in Kiel and the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) have now compared microbiome data from various great apes with those of humans with rural and urban lifestyles in the…
Paths into the unknown
EM started in 1982 at the former Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung (GBF) and in 1989 moved into a new building, which presented a major challenge in itself: The floors of the new building were covered with vibrating screed, which is not suitable for…
How we protect ourselves from infections
Viruses, bacteria, fungi and yeasts are lurking everywhere. Whether at home or work, in the hospital or even on or in human bodies – they can be found on every centimetre of every surface on Earth. The vast majority of microorganisms and viruses, which are not counted…
“Sample das Saarland” – microbial treasures from soil
The increasing resistance of pathogens to known antibiotics is an alarming trend that has gained public awareness over the last couple of years, as more and more infections with multi-resistant germs are reported from the clinics where even treatment with reserve…
Racing against pathogens
Prof Rolf Müller, who is the speaker of the research topic “Anti-infectives” at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the Executive Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) in Saarbrücken, summarises the status quo…
From the computer to the pharmacy
In the UdS focus area NanoBioMed, the nextAID³ cluster is planning new and innovative approaches for AI-driven drug research and development. In order to successfully combine experimental and computer-aided research, an interdisciplinary team of over 40 researchers has…
