A recent study by University Medicine Halle shows how sepsis can lead to dysfunction of vascular smooth muscle cells. The researchers found that elevated lactate levels and acidosis, which can occur acutely during sepsis due to metabolic derailment, only have a disrupting effect in synergistic combination. The study, published...
Our results align with the so-called “One Health” approach. It suggests that there is a close link between the health of environment, animals and humans,’ says Sommer. The study shows how changes in the species composition of wild animals – triggered by human encroachment into their habitats – could promote the spread...
A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, with significant contribution of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Seen in polarized light for the first time,...
Early hunter-gatherers from the Middle Stone Age in southern Africa were selecting the most suitable material available for stone tools and spearheads more than 60,000 years ago, according to a study by Dr. Patrick Schmidt from the University of Tübingen’s Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology section. Researchers on the...
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), around 1.6 million people die from an infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis every year, including 240,000 children. The challenges in combating the disease and containing its global spread include the lack of effective vaccines and medication against TB as well as the...
Immune cells must learn not to attack the body itself. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has discovered a previously unknown mechanism behind this: other immune cells, the B cells, contribute to the “training” of the T cells in the thymus...
