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Last update: : 10.07.2019
Scientists whose work is being cited very often by peers are regarded as exceptionally acknowledged and influential in their fields. Therefore, citation counts are a common benchmark for assessing…
Press releaseLast update: : 24.06.2019
Is computed tomography suitable for detecting lung cancer at a very early stage and thus still well treatable? Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center have investigated this with the LUSI…
Press releaseLast update: : 12.06.2019
The so-called "silent" or "synonymous" genetic alterations do not result in altered proteins. But they can nevertheless influence numerous functions of the cell and thus also disease processes.…
Press releaseLast update: : 16.05.2019
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and the Mannheim University Medical Center have now discovered that a certain group of cancer drugs (MEK…
Press releaseLast update: : 13.05.2019
In order to gain enough energy for their rapid growth, glioblastoma cells reprogram their fatty acid metabolism. How they do this has been unclear until now. Researchers at the German Cancer Research…
Press releaseLast update: : 29.04.2019
Genetically modified immune cells can successfully destroy colon cancer cells. This has been demonstrated for the first time by scientists from the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) at Georg Speyer…
Press releaseLast update: : 03.04.2019
A team from Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Centre has developed a new method for the automated image analysis of brain tumors. In their recent publication, the authors…
Press releaseLast update: : 01.04.2019
Blood platelets which interact with liver cells and immune cells play a major role in the development of fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver inflammation and liver cancer, scientists from…
Press releaseLast update: : 21.03.2019
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center found in a recent study that only three different genetic alterations drive the early development of malignant glioblastomas. At least one of these…
Press releaseLast update: : 14.03.2019
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have succeeded in reconstructing biomolecules in their mirror-image form. The researchers' goal is to create a mirror-image artificial protein…
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