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Tackling the collateral damage from antibiotics

Scientists pave the way for reducing the harmful side effects antibiotics have on gut bacteria

15-Oct-2021

Antibiotics help us to treat bacterial infections and save millions of lives each year. But they can also harm the helpful microbes residing in our gut, weakening one of our body’s first lines of defence against pathogens and compromising the multiple beneficial effects our microbiota has for our ...

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Fungus produces active agent in a medicinal herb

Researchers discover that a fungus in Tatarinow’s aster produces bioactive agents

09-Dec-2019

Tatarinow's aster is used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat a number of ailments; the plant contains an active ingredient known as astin – and it is this agent which cancer researchers are now investigating. However, the plant does not produce the astins itself, as was assumed for a long ...

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Making cancer stem cells visible to the immune system

New results may enable innovative treatment concept against leukemia

19-Jul-2019

Leukemia stem cells protect themselves against the immune defense by suppressing a target molecule for killer cells. This protective mechanism can be tricked with drugs. In the journal "Nature", scientists from Basel, Tübingen and Heidelberg describe the new therapeutic approaches that can ...

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How multicellular cyanobacteria transport molecules

16-Jul-2019

Researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Tübingen have taken a high-resolution look at the structure and function of cell-to-cell connections in filamentous, multicellular cyanobacteria. This enables them to explain how these microorganisms regulate the transport of various substances ...

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How sleep strengthens the immune system

Scientists discover new mechanism that supports our immune system during sleep

14-Feb-2019

Getting enough sleep is vital to supporting our immune system in fighting off pathogens – so much is common knowledge. But what we don't know is how exactly sleep affects certain immune functions. Scientists at the University of Tübingen and the University of Lübeck have now discovered a new ...

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Natural substance as alternative to controversial glyphosate?

Novel unusual sugar from cyanobacteria acts as natural herbicide

05-Feb-2019

Researchers at the University of Tübingen have discovered a natural substance that could compete with the controversial herbicide glyphosate: The newly discovered sugar molecule synthesized from cyanobacteria inhibits the growth of various microorganisms and plants but is harmless to humans and ...

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Breakthrough in the investigation of feared pathogens

Researchers uncover camouflage strategy of multi-resistant bacteria

26-Nov-2018

Researchers at the University of Tübingen and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have achieved a breakthrough in the decoding of multi-resistant pathogens. The team led by Professor Andreas Peschel and Professor Thilo Stehle was able to decode the structure and function of a ...

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Defects at the spinterface disrupt transmission

Researchers put metal-oxides and organic magnets together; applications for electronics in sight

23-Sep-2016

Magnets made of organic materials have a number of advantages over the classic metal or alloy magnets. They are chemically more flexible, cheaper to make, and can be better adapted to various purposes and varying designs. In practice, researchers want to apply both types of magnets in electronics ...

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