Prepared for the next virus pandemic

13 institutions from 6 countries set up European research platform

11-Jan-2024 - In collaboration with 12 partners from 6 countries, Jena University Hospital is establishing the Antivirus Pandemic Preparedness EuropeAn pLatform (APPEAL), a European research initiative aimed at enhancing preparedness for future pandemics. This EU funded collaboration will establish a ...

Respiratory tract bacterium uncovered as trigger for serious nervous system disease

04-Oct-2016 - Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an acute life-threatening disease of the nervous system that leads to sensory disturbances and acute flaccid paralysis. A group of researchers involving the University of Zurich has now shown for the first time that bacteria, which often cause pneumonia, can ...

New test could identify resistant tuberculosis faster

19-May-2015 - The time needed to genetically sequence the bacteria causing tuberculosis (Mtb) from patient samples has been reduced from weeks to days using a new technique developed by a UCL-led team. This could help health service providers to better treat disease, control transmission of this infection, and ...

Scientists Discover New Molecular Markers for Testicular Cancer

Researchers in the Netherlands use new technology from Applied Biosystems to identify different expression patterns of microRNA molecules in normal and cancerous cells

18-Oct-2007 - Scientists at the Erasmus MC-University Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corporation business, have made significant advances in testicular cancer research by identifying and analyzing a set of specific microRNA molecular markers that are involved in ...