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Last update: : 26.08.2009
The DNA, the carrier of hereditary information in our cells, is permanently faced with attacks: by environmental influences such as UV radiation, X-rays and gamma radiation, or by aggressive oxygen…
Press releaseLast update: : 11.08.2009
The so-called death receptor is well known among experts – it induces programmed cell death. In brain stem cells, however, this molecule has an entirely different function, as shown by scientists of…
Press releaseLast update: : 10.08.2009
Until now, there has been no common contact point in Germany for questions of the public regarding cancer. This will change thanks to an alliance between the Cancer Information Service…
Press releaseLast update: : 07.08.2009
Inflammations disrupt the balance of the tightly regulated blood sugar level. During acute sepsis, for example, glucose in the blood drops to a dangerously low level. One of the reasons for this is…
Press releaseLast update: : 06.08.2009
Cancer patients shall receive more specific and gentler treatment in the future. This is the goal of six partners from research and industry which are concentrating their expertise in radiation…
Press releaseLast update: : 04.08.2009
In the genetic material of cancer cells, important growth inhibitors are often switched off by chemical labels in the DNA. How this happens has been investigated by scientists of the German Cancer…
Press releaseLast update: : 30.07.2009
In biomedical research with living cells in the culture dish, contamination with bacteria, viruses or other fast-growing cells is always a problem. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center…
Press releaseLast update: : 20.07.2009
Dr. Lena Maier-Hein of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ ) is awarded with the 2008 Waltraud Lewenz Prize for developing a computer assisted targeting system…
Press releaseLast update: : 17.07.2009
Start-up company PEPperPRINT has won the first prize of the 2009 Science4Life business plan competition. The prize is worth 30,000 euros. PEPperPRINT’s business idea is based on producing peptide…
Press releaseLast update: : 02.07.2009
Northern Germany has more smokers than the South - and more people die there as a consequence of smoking. The differing number of males who died due to lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases,…
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