Research

The weight of expectant mothers could play a role in the development of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in daughters – but not in sons. This has been shown by researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is rare overall, but accounts for about a quarter of childhood cancers. To identify possible […]

Another EMBL-engineered advance to Brillouin microscopy significantly widens the aperture and provides for quick, more efficient 3-D imaging of light-sensitive samples Summary A new paper updates an EMBL technology advance even further. More details about the original technology can be found in our initial reporting here. EMBL tech developers have made an important leap forward with […]

Donating blood saves lives – but what long-term effects does this practice have on our bodies? Researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the HI-STEM stem cell institute* and the German Red Cross Blood Donor Service, among others, have now discovered that frequent blood donations cause genetic adaptations in blood stem cells that promote […]

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Mannheim Medical Faculty and Columbia University in New York have now published in the journal Nature that hepatic stellate cells […]

A research team including scientists from Heidelberg University Hospital has gained new insights into HIV-1. Researchers from Martinsried, Heidelberg und Yale have discovered the mechanism behind an important step in the life cycle of HIV. Working together with teams at Heidelberg and Yale Universities, they found that the enigmatic “spacer peptide 2”, one of the […]

Using a new combination of three sensors and artificial intelligence, researchers at Heidelberg Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University and Heidelberg University Hospital are recognising patterns in babies’ movements that show whether their nervous system is developing healthily. The way an infant moves spontaneously in the first few months of life can indicate whether its nervous system […]

New EMBL-EBI project explores the use of a concept developed in aerospace engineering to support rare disease research, diagnosis, and treatment Rare diseases are individually uncommon, but together they affect over 300 million people worldwide. There are more than 7,000 conditions that are classed as rare diseases, and many of them don’t have approved treatments. […]

Researchers led by Dr. Michael Pawlak from NMI Technologie Transfer GmbH (NMI TT) in Reutlingen and Prof. Dr. Hans Neubauer from the Women’s Hospital at the University of Düsseldorf have developed a new method that enables a more precise analysis of individual tumor cells circulating in the blood. This allows not only the previously possible […]

Müller, E.; Enzlein, T.; Niemeyer, D.; von Ammon, L.; Stumpo, K.; Biber, K.; Klein, C.; Hopf, C. Exploring the Aβ Plaque Microenvironment in Alzheimer’s Disease Model Mice by Multimodal Lipid-Protein-Histology Imaging on a Benchtop Mass Spectrometer. Pharmaceuticals 2025, 18, 252. https://doi.org/10.3390/ph18020252 Abstract Amyloid-β (Aβ) plaque deposits in the brain are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) neuropathology. Plaques […]