The initiative “Immunology & Inflammation” unifies efforts in immunological research within the Helmholtz Association. 23 working groups from five Helmholtz Centers are joining forces to address some of the most complex problems in today's immunology…
For years, a French company sold breast implants made of cheap industrial silicone components. Headline news when it broke in 2010, this scandal is still keeping the courts busy today. Now, a research team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied…
Over the next six years, scientists from all over Germany will work together to detect bone metastases early after surviving breast or prostate cancer and to prevent their development. A total of Euro 7.8 million will be available for the nationwide…
Three early career researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have succeeded in securing funding from the European Union’s flagship funding program. ERC Starting Grants support only the most outstanding research proposals and are awarded…
Eckert & Ziegler BEBIG has delivered its first SagiNova® system to Nepal, enabling government-run BP Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital to resume its HDR brachytherapy service.
Humedics GmbH, a specialist in real-time measurement of liver function capacity, announced results of a multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial that clearly shows the benefits of the LiMAx® test in liver surgery. Perioperative use of the…
A permanent medical history exhibition at the Berlin-based Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) impressively shows that microscopes have always been part of medical advances. Manufacturers and scientists in Berlin and Brandenburg have…
The Helmholtz Association is strengthening collaborative research in Europe – especially in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe – through its new "Helmholtz European Partnering" funding program. The institutional partnership with a Helmholtz Center…
Scientists at the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT) of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Fraunhofer-Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology have received the manufacturing authorization for their CardAP…
Obesity is associated with adipose tissue inflammation, insulin resistance and the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, our understanding is mostly based on conventional murine models and promising preclinical studies rarely translated into…
