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.

Stress on Every Cell: Mapping the Stress Axis in Detail

Scientists made use of new scientific technology to investigate the so-called stress axis that runs from the brain down to the adrenal glands. In particular, they uncovered numerous changes that…

Gene treatment protects against heart damage caused by chemotherapy

MHH research team uses telomerase for oxygen detoxification in heart muscle cells. According to an estimate by the Robert Koch Institute, around 510,000 people in Germany were newly diagnosed with…

Scientists discover a new promising target for diabetes treatment

Researchers have discovered a novel and druggable insulin inhibitory receptor, named inceptor. The latest study from Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, the Technical University of Munich and the German Center for Diabetes…

Combining best of both worlds for cancer modeling

Tiny devices use samples taken directly from patients to combine in vivo and in vitro testing. Despite cancer being a leading cause of death worldwide, treatment options for many types…

Antibiotic resistance may spread even more easily than expected

Pathogenic bacteria in humans are developing resistance to antibiotics much faster than expected. Now, computational research at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shows that one reason could be significant genetic…

IfADo expands systems biology approach with research MRI

Watching the brain at work and studying its functions – this is now possible at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) by magnetic resonance imaging…

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