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Researchers from the CeMM Research Center of Molecular Medicine at the Austrian Academy of Sciences have discovered that artemisinins, an approved drug group against malaria, transfer glucagon-producing alpha cells of the pancreas in insulin-producing cells. In patients suffering from type 1 diabetes, these are cells are damaged. For their investigations the researchers used specific alpha cell lines.

New book publication

Friday, 02 December 2016 00:13

Springer's Protocols series will shortly publish the book "Stem Cell-Derived Models in Toxicology.

Researchers from Braunschweig offer a new method for the production of antibody drugs to control diphtheria in the test tube. Unlike previous methods it does not require the use of test animals.

Together with 10 partners from business and industry, the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBMT) St. Ingbert, Germany, investigates the impact of nanoparticles on the human organism. For this, they have developed a microchip-based multiorgan platform.

Scientists led by Prof. Tilman Grune from the German Institute for Nutritional Sciences in Potsdam-Rehbrücke have dealt with processes of cell aging. They investigated occurrence and significance of ferritin H in human connective tissue cells of the skin.

A science consortium under the leadership of the University of Leipzig has analyzed thousands of human tumors and found that different types of cancer have a joint faulty regulation of certain genes. The affected genes are usually associated with the cell ripening.

Scientists from the Biocomplexity Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington have developed a computer simulation model that an simulate absorption and distribution of the drug acetaminophene on the level of a cell, the organ and the whole body.

LUSH prize winner interviewed

Tuesday, 15 November 2016 14:20

Part of the this year´s LUSH prize winners are three scientists working in Germany. In the context of a series of interviews, the animal rights roof organization "Federal Association of People for Animal Rights Germany" (PARG) has conducted an interview with the young Italian researcher and prize winner, Giorgia Pallocca who is working at the Leist´s chair in Constance.

Lecture event at Free University of Berlin

Tuesday, 15 November 2016 12:38

At the Free University of Berlin two lectures will be given on the topic "Latest technologies in biomedical research - for what reason animal experiments are nessessary?".

Austrian scientists from the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) have discovered an important molecular mechanism, which has an important function in the regular alignment of the spindle apparatus during cell division. By the switch, function and specialization of brain cells are determined and, consequently, malformations, e.g. microcephaly prevented.