Why Zika and dengue viruses are preferentially transmitted through blood

28-Mar-2024 - Why is infection with the Zika virus and other pathogens more likely to occur through insect bites than through saliva or semen, even though the virus is present in them? An international research group led by the universities of Marburg and Ulm has elucidated the mechanism that blocks the ...

Measles-Based Vector Vaccine Protects Mice against Influenza A (H7N9) Virus

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses such as the influenza A virus subtype H7N9 could potentially cause future influenza pandemics

11-Jul-2023 - Researchers at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI), in cooperation with the Philipps-Universität Marburg, used the "recombinant measles vaccine virus" vaccine platform to test vaccine candidates against the dangerous avian H7N9 influenza virus in an animal model. Vectored vaccines with a blueprint of ...

Anti-tumor agent from the intestine

Certain metabolites of bacteria from the intestine make immune cells more aggressive: The findings could help improve cancer therapies

14-Jul-2021 - It is believed to be involved in the development of chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases, to trigger diabetes, to be responsible for obesity, even neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's could have their causes here – not to mention depressions and autistic disorders. ...

New SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody enters clinical phase

21-Dec-2020 - Cologne University Hospital (UKK), University of Marburg (UMR), the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) and Boehringer Ingelheim announced the initiation of Phase 1/2a clinical investigation of BI 767551, a new SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody. By combining UKK, UMR and DZIF’s expertise ...

The Key that Fits: New Technique To Trace Disease-Related Agents

09-Mar-2010 - In the development of new drugs, photoaffinity labels (PALs) are a versatile tool to investigate the interaction between a receptor and a drug or a ligand. Researchers working with Stephanie Grond at the University of Tübingen and Paultheo von Zezschwitz at the University of Marburg have now ...

Proteinbiosynthese: Neuer "Stopp"-Faktor entdeckt

05-Feb-2007 - Einen "essentiellen" zellulären Mechanismus, der an der Übersetzung genetischer Informationen in Proteine beteiligt ist, hat eine junge Forschergruppe um die Heisenberg-Stipendiatin Dr. Heike Krebber entdeckt. Heike Krebber ist Privatdozentin am Institut für Molekularbiologie und Tumorforschung ...