Research

Antibodies can improve the rehabilitation of people with acute spinal cord injury. Researchers at 13 clinics in Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Spain have investigated this with promising results. For the first time, it was possible to identify patient groups that displayed a clinically relevant treatment effect. A follow-up study will start in December […]

Being overweight increases the risk of bowel cancer. The extent of this preventable risk factor has been significantly underestimated to date. Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now reanalyzed a large pool of data and come to the conclusion that obesity is responsible for over 20 percent of bowel cancer cases. More […]

Victoria Stodden, statistician and associate professor at the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, has been selected to receive a prestigious Humboldt Research Award. Granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the award is bestowed on internationally leading researchers in recognition of outstanding academic achievements. A […]

EMBL’s scientists have been instrumental in helping the world understand, decode, archive, and manipulate genomes at scale and across many branches of the evolutionary tree By Ewan Birney, Eileen Furlong, and Arnaud Krebs In 1978, British biochemist Frederick Sanger’s team released the genome sequence of ϕX174 – a virus that infects bacteria. The sequence – the […]

Researchers developed a microscope made to travel – miniature in scale, fast in imaging samples, and giant in resolution. Microscopy allows us to see the unknown, solve mysteries, and advance knowledge. When EMBL scientists were looking to take the organisation’s world-class advanced microscopy from the lab to the field, as part of the Traversing European Coastlines […]

From January 1, 2025, Roman Sarott and his research group “Chemically Induced Proximity” will develop small molecules with special function: they are designed to induce new interactions between proteins in order to reprogram cellular signaling pathways and thereby open up new therapeutic possibilities. “I am very much looking forward to my new role at the […]

Clinical medicine internationally in 17th position – medical technology ranks 16th worldwide With medical technology and clinical medicine, Heidelberg University is among the best representatives of the medical sciences worldwide. In the 2024 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, medical technology ranks 16th internationally, which means second place in Germany. Clinical medicine moves up one place […]

Is it enough to treat the symptoms, or would we rather get to the causes of the illness? Up to now, schizophrenia has mainly been treated symptomatically, as little is known about the exact underlying processes. Researchers at the NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute in Reutlingen have succeeded in gaining a better understanding of […]

Researchers at the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg University Hospital have used modified rabies viruses to label glioblastoma tumour cells and their direct cell contacts in the mouse brain. The new method showed that the tumour cells are connected to different types of nerve cells throughout the entire brain at a very […]