Research

The reservoir of blood stem cells shrinks with age. It becomes increasingly dominated by stem cells that produce immune cells associated with chronic inflammation. Almost all of the 60-year-olds studied show this change. Researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation and the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, both in Barcelona, and the German Cancer Research […]

Medulloblastomas, childhood brain tumors in children, are thought to develop between the first trimester of pregnancy and the end of the first year of life. Researchers at the Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) have now published their findings in the journal Nature. They […]

Joint press release by the NMI and the Technical University of Darmstadt (How) can we 3D print tissues that mimic the complex anatomy of natural body tissue as closely as possible? 3D bioprinting is a great hope in the field of regenerative medicine to produce miniaturized tissues and organ precursors with biological functionality. Today, however, […]

Nikon Imaging Center at Heidelberg University achieves three-dimensional reconstruction of nerve network in the pancreas tissue Pancreatic cancer is fueled by connections to the nervous system, as was shown by scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM). In a recent study, they […]

GSK plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) today announced the authorisation of Blenrep by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). In the UK, Blenrep is approved for the treatment of adults with multiple myeloma in combination with bortezomib plus dexamethasone (BVd) in patients who have received at least one prior therapy, and in combination with pomalidomide plus dexamethasone (BPd) in […]

The growth and function of nerve cells is based on a lattice-like structure called membrane-associated periodic skeleton (MPS). However, how the organization of the MPS is controlled has not been elucidated until now. A team from the Max Planck Institutes for Medical Research and for Multidisciplinary Sciences has now discovered that it is regulated by […]

Mirco Julian Friedrich from the DKFZ, HI-STEM* and Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) was included in the renowned Forbes ‘30 Under 30 Europe’ list in the Science & Healthcare category. The physician and cancer researcher, who has headed the Haematology and Immune Engineering junior research group since this year, initially developed successful approaches to reactivate the […]

Scientists from the Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University, the University of Mainz, the SAFE Leibniz Institute Frankfurt, the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Stanford University, USA, have examined Welsh health data on older people. They found that over a seven-year follow-up period, people who received the shingles vaccine were 20% less likely […]

The Medical Faculty Heidelberg of Heidelberg University and Mannheim University of Applied Sciences are combining their expertise in infectious disease research, mass spectrometry, and bioinformatics to overcome resistance in malaria vectors. The project is supported by funding from the Gates Foundation. Mosquito nets treated with insecticides are the most effective measure for preventing malaria. However, […]