University of Tübingen

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Study tracks global death toll of COVID-19 pandemic

Using the World Mortality Dataset, the largest existing collection of mortality data, researchers of the University of Tübingen and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have tracked the impact of COVID-19 across more than ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Why a diabetes drug could help in Parkinson's disease

A diabetes drug might help in certain types of Parkinson's disease, reports a team of German brain researchers headed by Dr. Julia Fitzgerald at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, the University of Tübingen ...

Medical research

When a lack of sugar drives cells to eat themselves

Autophagy is the recycling process by which our cells keep themselves young. They continually break down and renew small parts of themselves in a kind of self-digestion; this helps to counteract harmful deposits which may ...

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Live coverage of the immune system at work

To better understand what happens during immune reactions in the body, researchers at Tübingen University have developed a new way of labeling T-cells, allowing them to track the T-cell movement in mice using non-invasive ...

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