Health and Medicine

This subject area encompasses research and studies in the field of human medicine.

Among the wide-ranging list of topics covered here are anesthesiology, anatomy, surgery, human genetics, hygiene and environmental medicine, internal medicine, neurology, pharmacology, physiology, urology and dental medicine.

Risk of serious COVID-19 infection can now be predicted

TUM researchers develop rapid test for severe infections. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a method for assessing the number and structure of aggregated blood platelets…

Fat cells help repair damaged nerves

Damage to the body’s peripheral nerves can cause pain and movement disorders. Researchers at the Leipzig University have recently investigated how damaged nerves can regenerate better. They found that fat…

Malfunction in spermatogenesis

Bonn researchers uncover contribution of Cylicin proteins to male fertility. For successful fertilization, sperm should move forward rapidly and be shaped correctly. The unique structure of the sperm cells forms…

Is genetics the cause of mystery osteoporosis?

A recently discovered genetic mutation could be the cause of some severe and baffling cases of osteoporosis – including in young people. The condition called idiopathic osteoporosis (IOP) occurs in…

Lowering a form of brain cholesterol reduces Alzheimer’s-like damage in mice

Targeting cholesterol potentially could help treat Alzheimer’s, related dementias. In Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, cognitive decline is driven by the overaccumulation of a normal brain protein known as tau….

Keeping organ rejection in check with killer cells

A donated organ always remains foreign to the body and is fought against by the immune system. In order to prevent rejection, the entire immune defence must be suppressed for…

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