Whether Ebola or Marburg virus: If people in Germany are infected with a highly contagious pathogen, they have to be treated in a specialized clinic, including in Berlin and Hamburg. Such stations are currently coming into focus in view of the latest Marburg outbreaks in Tanzania: So far there is no vaccine against the highly … Read more
Legendary Creature: This mermaid-shaped mummy is said to have been found in the ocean in the 18th century. Now she has been examined again. The supposed mummy of a mermaid has long been a legend in Japan. Their tail fin, teeth and hair supported the story of their authenticity. Scientists have now taken a closer … Read more
Dry macular degeneration… Gradual central macular atrophy over many yearsWet macular degeneration… Symptoms progress rapidly over days to weeks Clipart Korea image Macular degeneration is a dangerous disease that is considered one of the three major blindness diseases in Korea, along with diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. According to statistics from the National Health Insurance Corporation, … Read more
Children are significantly less likely to get seriously ill with Covid-19 because their immune systems can usually adapt better to the corona virus. This is now also confirmed by a small study from Singapore. Doctors took blood samples while the children were still acutely infected and repeated this one to three times after infection. The … Read more
news Tübingen research group finds the cause by Bianca Hermle (25.08.2022) In an interdisciplinary research project, Prof. Dr. Lukas Flatz and Dr. Tobias Sinnberg from the University Hospital in Tübingen, together with an international research team, investigated why some patients have problems with oxygen uptake during the Covid 19 infection. For this purpose, the scientists … Read more
Genetically engineering mice to make their immune systems human is not a new invention. But a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School has now created a special line of new effective antibodies against the Sars coronavirus 2 through a complex combination of human and mouse genes. As the team around Sai Luo, Jun Zhang … Read more