Focus on carcinogenic effects of processed red meat

RPTU researcher receives Emmy Noether grant

29-Jan-2024 - The World Health Organization (WHO) classified the consumption of processed meat as carcinogenic for humans years ago. However, the connection between possible toxic substances in meat, the digestive processes in the body and the development of bowel cancer is still not fully understood. Dr. Tina ...

Developing medicines: Software incorporates the motion of atoms

This technology allows them to quickly see whether it makes sense and is even possible to develop and produce the molecule

08-Nov-2021 - Medicines are often helpful in the treatment of various diseases. In order for them to be effective, researchers need precise information about the surface molecules of viruses or bacteria, for example. Often, the motion of the atoms of these molecules is neglected while developing medicines. But ...

Exploiting deep learning to develop sustainable COVID-19 inhibitors

Collaboration Eisbach Bio GmbH & Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

10-Sep-2021 - Eisbach Bio GmbH and the team of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Naim Bajcinca from the Technische Universität Kaiserlautern (TUK) announce a collaboration where they will use deep learning to track and trace arising mutations in the genome of SARS-CoV-2 and develop sustainable small molecule inhibitors that will ...

Seeing memories being made

03-Sep-2019 - Researchers at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern have developed a novel tool for tracking and manipulating long-term memories as they are stored in the brains of fruit flies. The tool, reported recently in the journal PLOS Biology, will help investigate how memory works at the molecular ...