Blood test to give insights into a person’s infection history

Researchers are investigating the immune system’s sensors

03-Feb-2026 - Which infections have you already come into contact with? In the future, a simple blood test may be all you need to answer that question. Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen intend to investigate the sensors the immune system ...

How genes affect our metabolism

Better prevention of heart disease thanks to genetics

09-Oct-2025 - A person's metabolism is as unique as their fingerprint, and so is their risk of developing certain diseases. A better understanding of the genetic influences on metabolism could open up new therapeutic options. Researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and Queen Mary ...

Blood Testing for so-called MicroRNAs Can Detect Dementia

German-American research team highlights new diagnostic option for Alzheimer’s

23-Sep-2024 - Dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease and its preliminary stage can be detected by measuring so-called microRNAs in blood. Researchers from DZNE in Göttingen, together with US experts from Boston University and the Indiana University School of Medicine, report on this in the scientific journal ...

PFAS in blood are ubiquitous – and they are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases

Younger people are particularly affected

13-Mar-2024 - Researchers at DZNE provide evidence that traces of the widely used PFAS chemicals in human blood are associated with unfavorable lipid profiles and thus with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. The findings are based on data from more than 2,500 adults from Bonn and the Dutch ...

Risk of serious COVID-19 infection can now be predicted

Researchers develop rapid test for severe infections

30-Nov-2023 - Researchers have developed a method for assessing the number and structure of aggregated blood platelets (or thrombocytes) that can potentially help quantify the risk of a severe COVID-19 infection. As a result, they have identified a predictive biomarker for the seriousness of a COVID-19 ...

Hemophilia: Training the immune system to be tolerant

Study elucidates an important immune mechanism

02-Nov-2022 - Hemophilia A is the most common severe form of hemophilia. It affects almost exclusively males. The disease can usually be treated well, but not for all sufferers. A study at the University of Bonn has now elucidated an important mechanism that is crucial for making the therapy effective. The ...

COVID-19: Release of immature blood cells from bone marrow as a signature of severe disease

Research team has identified cell types in the blood that indicate severe disease progression in COVID-19

30-Nov-2020 - In severe cases of COVID-19 disease, not only classic immune cells play a role. In particular, the release of immature precursor cells from the bone marrow into the blood indicates a particularly severe course of the disease and could contribute to complications. This has been shown by an ...

Could the blood of COVID-19 patients be used to predict disease progression?

Study discovers differences in the blood samples of severe and mild cases

09-Jun-2020 - Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Francis Crick Institute have identified 27 proteins which are present at different levels in the blood of COVID-19 patients, depending on the severity of their symptoms. These biomarker profiles could be used to predict disease ...

AI-driven single blood cell classification

New method to support physicians in leukemia diagnostics

14-Nov-2019 - For the first time, researchers from Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University Hospital of LMU Munich show that deep learning algorithms perform similar to human experts when classifying blood samples from patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Their proof of concept study paves ...

Blood samples from the zoo help predict diseases in humans

17-Jul-2019 - Penguins, Asian elephants and many other animal species live in the zoos of Saarbrücken and Neunkirchen. As they come from different continents, blood is regularly taken from the animals to check their health. These blood samples have now been used by bioinformaticians and human geneticists at ...