University of Würzburg

Cardiology

Molecular mechanism of cerebral venous thrombosis discovered

Cerebral venous thrombosis is a rare, often severe disease that has been brought to public attention by the COVID 19 pandemic. A research group from Würzburg has now succeeded for the first time in deciphering a molecular ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Finding creativity through movement

Movement helps us to think creatively. This insight is over 2000 years old—and already known to the philosophers in ancient Greece.

Immunology

Turning immune cells into killers

When pathogens invade the human body, a rapid response is required. At the forefront of the immune response are special immune cells. They reside in various tissues such as the lungs, liver, skin and intestines, where they ...

Oncology & Cancer

Anti-tumor agent from the intestine

The microbiome is the vast collection of bacteria in the human gut. It is estimated that each person carries around 100 trillion bacterial cells in their digestive tract, belonging to several thousand species. These are believed ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

The science behind impulse buying

You have probably often said to yourself: "This time, I will only buy what I need!" But then you still ended up coming home with things that were not on your shopping list.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New approach against COVID-19

If Professor Thomas Rudel and the biopharmaceutical company Aeterna Zentaris GmbH have their way, there could possibly be significant enhancement in the fight against the global Corona pandemic in the future: a vaccination ...

Neuroscience

New signaling pathway in neurons

Neurodegenerative diseases, such as various forms of senile dementia or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), have one thing in common: large amounts of certain RNA-protein complexes (snRNPs) are produced and deposited in ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

From melody to language: Speech development in babies

In the first few months of their lives, babies cry, babble, gurgle and make a variety of other peculiar sounds. It can be difficult to imagine that they are actually laying the foundations for later speech with these utterances. ...

Oncology & Cancer

Stirring up conflicts in tumour cells

Neuroblastomas are malignant solid tumors that occur mainly in early childhood. They arise from degenerated immature cells of the sympathetic nervous system.

Medical research

Women's menstrual cycles temporarily synchronize with moon cycles

The blog "Ladyplanet. Natürlich Frau sein" is quite certain: "Our cycle is linked to that of the moon. The most obvious connection is the length of the two cycles," it says. The newspaper Berliner Tagesspiegel comes to the ...

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