Special Topic | Long COVID in Berlin-Brandenburg – research, networks and engagement for better care

The term “Long COVID” first emerged in the social media. Numerous affected individuals have reported in the social media about their various, long-lasting health limitations after SARS-CoV-2 infection. In the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region,…

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Berlin-based clinical trials imaging company pharmtrace opens US base

pharmtrace, a German, Berlin based provider of Independent expertise for nuclear medicine, diagnostics, and drug development clinical trials has established a representative office in Philadelphia. pharmtrace is currently enjoying increasing…

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Algorithms developed at the Max Delbrück Center are able to detect new SARS-CoV-2 variants and other pathogens in wastewater

But that’s not all: the tool, which Altuna Akalin and his colleagues have now presented in “Science of the Total Environment”, can also find other pathogens.

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Eckert & Ziegler to Build Production Line for NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes’ Dedicated Actinium-225 Production Facility

 

Berlin, Germany and BELOIT, Wis., 11 October 2022 - Eckert & Ziegler Isotope Technologies Dresden (ITD), a specialist for radiopharmaceutical plant engineering and fully owned subsidiary of Eckert & Ziegler AG (ISIN DE0005659700, SDAX) and…

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Making gene and immunotherapy safer: Christof von Kalle receives Outstanding Achievement Award from the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

Professor Christof von Kalle, BIH Chair for Clinical Translational Sciences and Founding Director of the Clinical Study Center of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has been awarded the European…

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Prediction period of the DIfE ─ German Diabetes Risk Score now extended from five to ten years

The DIfE ─ German Diabetes Risk Score (DRS), developed by the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), has thus far enabled the prediction of the individual risk of developing type 2 diabetes within the next five years.…

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Kupando raises €13 million in Series A funding round

Financing led by Remiges Ventures, co-led by LifeCare Partners, with additional investments by Brandenburg Kapital, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Ventura Biomed Investors and undisclosed family offices.

Proceeds to be used to complete IND-enabling work…

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NUVISAN receives US$ 9.6m grant for a multi-target drug discovery program on novel non-hormonal contraceptive medicines

NUVISAN’s integrated drug discovery expertise leveraged in a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Scientists from Charité profiled 168 metabolic markers in blood samples and were able to predict the risk of onset of several diseases with just one test

To prevent diseases from occurring in the first place, it is important to identify those individuals who are at particularly high risk as early as possible. Yet current screening methods are often costly and focus only on one disease at a time.…

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Keeping aggressive cancer cells in check

BRCA1/2-mutated tumor cells often survive treatment, whether it’s chemo- or radiotherapy, because they can repair therapy-induced DNA damage. A team led by Claus Scheidereit of the Max Delbrück Center has now reported in The EMBO Journal how blocking…

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