American scientists have tested a hypothesis that certain types of intestinal bacteria can positively or negatively influence the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC). Sequencing and subsequent analyzes provided new evidence of a possible link.

On the crowdfunding website Kickstarter, the toxicologist Christa Royal from Atlanta, Georgia (USA), has announced the founding of a web platform for publishing negative research findings.

A research team led by Leif Schröder from the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) in Berlin and Christian Freund from the Freie Universität Berlin have replaced the detection principle used by magnetic resonance tomographs using a new process that makes it possible to render visible minute pathogenic details in tissue, such as cancer cells or atherosclerotic plaques.

Bioinformaticians at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena led by Prof. Dr. Stefan Schuster have, in collaboration with Norwegian researchers, developed a comprehensive computer model for the metabolism of the amino acid tryptophan.