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Last update: : 01.02.2005
The proteins actin and myosin have a firm place in the muscles where they are responsible for contraction. While recent investigations have shown that they are also found in the nucleus, it has been…
Press releaseLast update: : 24.01.2005
Radiation therapy research is one of the most important focal points at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). The work of the medical physicists is coming to fruition: the Center and Siemens…
Press releaseLast update: : 18.01.2005
Dr. Stephan Herzig and his working group “Molecular Metabolic Control" at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) is one of four research teams that have been awarded research grants from the…
Press releaseLast update: : 11.01.2005
Over the past five decades, the number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer in Western industrialized nations has been rising – and the cancer is diagnosed at ever younger ages of the patients.This…
Press releaseLast update: : 08.12.2004
A type of virus called Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) may be put to useful service in the fight against cancer. Professor Volker Schirrmacher, head of the Division of Cellular Immunology at DKFZ, has…
Press releaseLast update: : 07.12.2004
To elucidate cellular mechanisms that lead to diseases such as cancer is a big challenge of biomedicine. Scientists of the Division of Molecular Genome Analysis headed by Professor Annemarie Poustka,…
Press releaseLast update: : 06.12.2004
Computer tomography (CT) is used in cancer diagnostics as a standard method for detecting tumors in the body. However, its resolution is too low to facilitate imaging of detailed tissue structures.…
Press releaseLast update: : 01.12.2004
Spelling mistakes – mutations – in the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 were identified as risk factors for breast cancer some years ago. To find out whether and to what extent these mutations play a role in…
Press releaseLast update: : 21.09.2004
Dr. Frank Lyko of the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ) has been highly honored by being selected into the 2004 “TR100 list“. The U.S. magazine “Technology…
Press releaseLast update: : 18.07.2004
Little is known about the causes of lymphoma. A case-control study conducted by Professor Nikolaus Becker and Dr. Alexandra Nieters, Division of Clinical Epidemiology at the Deutsches…
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