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Last update: : 30.07.2018
Cologne entrepreneur Dieter Morszeck, former CEO and owner of RIMOWA, donated part of his assets to the RIMOWA Dieter Morszeck Foundation in 2017. The foundation has three major focuses of which…
Press releaseLast update: : 10.07.2018
It has long been known that the pathogens causing sleeping sickness evade the immune system by exchanging their surface proteins. But now scientists at the German Cancer Research Center have found an…
Press releaseLast update: : 09.07.2018
The exchange of a single amino acid building block in a metabolic enzyme can lead to cancer. In addition, it can impair the immune system, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ),…
Press releaseLast update: : 05.07.2018
Most diabetes medications do not attack the cause of the disease. Glitazones are different: they improve insulin sensitivity and can promote the conversion of unhealthy white adipose tissue into…
Press releaseLast update: : 26.06.2018
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common type of blood cancer in adults. It can be treated with chemotherapy and oral drugs but this treatment cannot cure the cancer completely. Although…
Press releaseLast update: : 20.06.2018
Every cell and every organism ages sooner or later. But why is this so? Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg have now discovered for the first time a protein that represents…
Press releaseLast update: : 19.06.2018
Many genetic markers associated with the familial breast cancer risk are outside the protein-coding regions of the genome and are likely to regulate the activity of neighboring genes. In a large…
Press releaseLast update: : 08.06.2018
Malaria is one of the most inflicting infectious diseases worldwide. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, and from The Hospital for Sick Children…
Press releaseLast update: : 05.06.2018
Five years after the diagnosis, the quality of life of breast cancer survivors has largely returned to that of the general population, scientists at the German Cancer Research Center have found.…
Press releaseLast update: : 04.06.2018
Whether or not a medical treatment is added to the catalogue of services covered by a national health care scheme, in many jurisdictions largely depends on the economic assessment of its cost benefit…
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