Research

Scientists have discovered how the antiviral protein TRIM25 finds and binds viral RNA to activate an immune response Summary Every second of every day, our body is under attack. The invading agents are viruses, bacteria, parasites, toxins – living and non-living entities that might negatively impact our body’s functioning. What keeps us safe is a […]

Ruprecht Karls Prizes and Fritz Grunebaum Prize to be awarded on October 25 The Heidelberg University Foundation honors young academics with the Ruprecht Karls Prizes for their outstanding scientific publications. The awards go to five doctoral students from various disciplines. The Fritz Grunebaum Prize will also be awarded during the festive event in the auditorium […]

Pitchload’s goal is to make innovation ecosystems more transparent, accessible, and efficient. Startups and accelerators currently waste time maintaining databases and creating PDFs. Pitchload’s mission is to create a “single source of truth” for the European innovation ecosystem, starting locally but aiming globally. Pitchload offers streamlined information sharing, syncing with third-party systems, and privacy control […]

Whether we are predisposed to particular diseases depends to a large extent on the countless variants in our genome. However, particularly in the case of genetic variants that only rarely occur in the population, the influence on the presentation of certain pathological traits has so far been difficult to determine. Researchers from the German Cancer […]

Every year, more than a million people die from tuberculosis. To date, there is no effective vaccination against the pathogen, and treatment is also lengthy and difficult due to increasing multiple resistances. As the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis manages to defy both the immune system and antibiotic treatment, Dr. Vivek Thacker, group leader at the Medical Faculty Heidelberg […]

Dr. Tanja Eichkorn, a scientist at Heidelberg University and physician at the Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiotherapy at Heidelberg University Hospital, has been awarded the Anita and Friedrich Reutner Prize of the Heidelberg Medical Faculty for her research into tissue damage in the brain following high-precision radiation with protons. More Information in German below. […]

Further Information in German below. Promega entwickelt neues Enzym zur signifikanten Reduktion von Stutter-Artefakten in der forensischen DNA-Analyse Madison, WI USA. (30. September 2024)  Forschende der Promega Corporation haben ein neues Enzym entwickelt, das störende Stutter-Artefakte in der forensischen DNA-Analyse nahezu vollständig eliminiert. Dieses Enzym erleichtert erheblich die Dekonvolution von Mischspuren und ermöglicht Forensikerinnen und Forensikern, […]

Success for the NMI spin-off immuneAdvice: the startup took first place in the Young Scientists Pitch Competition at the bioRN Annual Conference on Wednesday, October 9, 2024. Dr. Björn Tränkle, one of the founders, presented the business idea. The vision of immuneAdvice is the early response monitoring and control of immunotherapies with the so-called ICE-T […]

Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg and University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a curious way in which cells adapt to starvation – a mechanism with potential cancer implications Summary What can stressed yeast teach us about fundamental processes in the cell? A lot, according to EMBL Heidelberg’s Mattei Team. The team studies, among other topics, […]