Why do we age and how can we stop it?

“People who engage in unhealthy habits age faster”

25-Jul-2023 - The aging process begins as early as young adulthood. What causes this process and what factors speed it up? Can regeneration research on the axolotl contribute to slowing down the aging process – or stop it altogether? Where does our longing for “eternal youth” come from? These are the questions ...

New Potential Mechanism for Vision Loss Discovered

Visual cells may not simply die in some diseases, but are mechanically transported out of the retina beforehand

05-Dec-2022 - Thanks to laboratory produced human mini-retinas, researchers were able to observe complex changes in the retina as they occur in macular degeneration. This enabled them to discover the so-called cell extrusion as a potential mechanism for neurodegenerative diseases. Visual cells in the human ...

Customized programming of human stem cells

The results open new possibilities in research

02-Dec-2020 - Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) have the potential to convert into a wide variety of cell types and tissues. However, the "recipes" for this conversion are often complicated and difficult to implement. Researchers at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) at TU Dresden, Harvard ...

T cells in babies give clues to who will develop type 1 diabetes

24-Feb-2017 - The research group of Prof. Ezio Bonifacio, group leader and Director at the DFG-Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), Cluster of Excellence at TU Dresden, and group leader at DZD-Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden, introduces a new understanding of cellular mechanisms occurring in ...

Advances in Alzheimer’s research

24-Oct-2016 - The research team of Dr. Caghan Kizil at the DFG-Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) - Cluster of Excellence at the TU Dresden, achieved a major advance in Alzheimer’s research. They showed how a diseased vertebrate brain can naturally react to Alzheimer’s pathology by forming more ...

Breakthrough: Gut bacteria drive growth of stem cells in colon cancer

06-Apr-2016 - Colon cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in Germany. Prof. Dr. med. Sebastian Zeißig, group leader at the DFG Research Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) - Cluster of Excellence at the TU Dresden and physician at the Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Carl ...