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Overactive immune response blocks itself
As part of the innate immune system natural killer cells (NK cells) play an important role in immune responses. For a long time they have been known as the first line of defense in the fight against infectious diseases. Therefore, researchers assumed that the body needs…
45 million euros for InfectControl2020
The collaborative project “InfectControl2020” – initated by the The Leibniz-Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology- Hans-Knöll-Institute - will be funded with 45 million Euros by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The money will…
Third international HIPS Symposium at the Saar University:
On Thursday, 18 July 2013, the campus of Saarland University will once again serve as the venue for renowned researchers and junior scientists from various areas of pharmaceutical research. They are assembling for the third international symposium of the Helmholtz…
Laying of the foundation stone for the CSSB
On the site of the Deutschen Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg a unique centre for infection research will be built: the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB). The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig is one of nine institutions…
Bacteria engage in a hazardous hide-and-seek
Tonsillitis, scarlet fever or life-threatening infections such as necrotising fasciitis – skin and tissue necrosis of dramatic extent - are caused by the bacterium, Streptococcus pyogenes. This pathogen manages to penetrate into the wall lining of blood vessels. This…
Herpesviruses undercover
Pathogens entering our body only remain unnoticed for a short period. Within minutes our immune cells detect the invader and trigger an immune response. However, some viruses have developed strategies to avoid detection and elimination by our immune system. Researchers…
HZI to award young infection researchers
As in the previous years, the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and the Friends of the HZI are going to honour an excellent young researcher in the field of infection biology. The award was established in 2011 in memory of the former…
More insights from tissue samples
A new way of preparing patient tissue for analyses might soon become the new standard. This is what researchers of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the Research Center Borstel recommend in their current publication in the Journal of Proteome…
We have to get very ill in order to get well more quickly
Elderly people get the flu more often and suffer from the symptoms for longer than younger people. Why this is the case was unclear - until now. Researchers at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany, discovered a possible reason:…
Emmanuelle Charpentier receives prestigious award
Prof Emmanuelle Charpentier from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig is one of the winners of the most renowned award for scientists in Sweden — the Göran Gustafsson Prize. The award was presented at the Annual Ceremony of the Royal Swedish…
