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Searchresult: How blood stem cells maintain their lifelong potential for self-renewalHow blood stem cells maintain their lifelong potential for self-renewal Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 27.01.2021
A characteristic feature of all stem cells is their ability to self-renew. But how is this potential maintained throughout life? Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the…
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Searchresult: Protein anchors as a newly discovered key molecule in cancer spread and epilepsyProtein anchors as a newly discovered key molecule in cancer spread and epilepsy Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 25.01.2021
Certain anchor proteins inhibit a key metabolic driver that plays an important role in cancer and developmental brain disorders. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the…
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Searchresult: DKFZ and EMBL intensify cooperation
Last update: : 20.01.2021
The development of new strategies for processing and analysing life science data, the further development of scientific imaging, the search for new active substances for drugs: These are the tasks…
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Searchresult: How a protein variant could explain resistance to sleeping sickness drugHow a protein variant could explain resistance to sleeping sickness drug Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 18.01.2021
A specific variant of the surface protein VSG of African trypanosomes, the causative agents of sleeping sickness, is associated with resistance to the important drug Suramin. Scientists at the German…
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Searchresult: Anticoagulants reduce the number of brain metastases in miceAnticoagulants reduce the number of brain metastases in mice Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 05.01.2021
Brain metastases can only develop if cancer cells first exit the fine blood vessels and enter into the brain tissue. To facilitate this step, cancer cells influence blood clotting, as scientists from…
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Searchresult: Artificial intelligence enables new imaging methods
Last update: : 09.12.2020
With its "ERC-Consolidator Grants", the European Research Council (ERC) supports excellent young scientists in developing their independent career. Lena Maier Hein from the German Cancer Research…
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Searchresult: Childhood cancer: Molecular super-enhancers determine progression of neuroblastomasChildhood cancer: Molecular super-enhancers determine progression of neuroblastomas Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 07.12.2020
Childhood neuroblastomas display extreme differences in the way they develop: they can shrink spontaneously or spread aggressively to healthy tissue. It is molecular super-enhancers that activate the…
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Searchresult: One for all
Last update: : 07.12.2020
AI-based evaluation of medical imaging data usually requires a specially developed algorithm for each task. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now presented a new method…
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Searchresult: Neurobiologist Hannah Monyer Receives Lautenschläger Research PrizeNeurobiologist Hannah Monyer Receives Lautenschläger Research Prize Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 04.12.2020
Heidelberg neurobiologist Prof. Dr Hannah Monyer, an internationally renowned expert in the field of brain research, is being honoured with the 2020 Lautenschläger Research Prize. The prize is…
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Searchresult: Biomarkers for a long life
Last update: : 02.12.2020
Epidemiologist Bernard Srour from the German Cancer Research Center receives one of the prizes for young scientists awarded annually by the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller. The young scientist…
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