Start-up receives funding for animal-free methods for drug testing

Ethically safe, fast, cost-effective and reliable

09-Oct-2024 - InnoZell, a spin-off of the University of Konstanz, receives "Go-Bio Initial" funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The spin-off of Clovis Hugues Seumen Tiogang focuses on innovations in the field of cell research. The idea behind InnoZell is to offer animal-free ...

Researchers Discover Novel Cell Type that Controls the Formation and Growth of New Blood Vessels

Molecular Code Stimulates Pioneer Cells to Build Blood Vessels in the Body

19-Apr-2024 - Cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and myocardial infarction, are the world's leading causes of mortality, accounting for over 18 million deaths a year. A team of KIT researchers has now identified a new cell type in blood vessels responsible for vascular growth. This discovery may allow ...

Research team shows how a cell’s form can be reversed

Light-switchable molecules in membranes enable different forms of living cells to be studied

28-Jun-2023 - A research team led by Prof. Bart Jan Ravoo (University of Münster) and Prof. Timo Betz (University of Göttingen) describes for the first time how living cells can be reversibly deformed by specifically influencing the cell membrane using light. Membranes fulfil a variety of tasks in living ...

Dissecting protein assemblies

New molecular details from mitochondria

14-Aug-2020 - Super-resolution MINFLUX nanoscopy, developed by Nobel laureate Stefan Hell and his team, is able to discern fluorescent molecules that are only a few nanometers apart. In an initial application of this technique to cell biology, researchers led by Stefan Hell and Stefan Jakobs have now optically ...

High-end Microscopy Refined

New details are known about an important cell structure

06-Jul-2020 - For the first time, two Würzburg research groups have been able to map the synaptonemal complex three-dimensionally with a resolution of 20 to 30 nanometres. The synaptonemal complex is a ladder-like cell structure that plays a major role in the development of egg and sperm cells in humans and ...

How herpesviruses escape from the immune system

06-Jul-2018 - Herpesviruses are the cause of many diseases, such as shingles or mononucleosis ('kissing disease') that compromise our quality of life. While the human immune system can usually prevent the spread of herpesviruses, it cannot entirely eliminate them from our bodies. This is because these viruses ...

Biomimetic molecules to program cell mechanics

19-Feb-2018 - Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology and Leipzig University are developing a system to enable mechanical cell properties to be precisely modulated and investigated. By drawing on synthetic mimics of proteins in cells, the links between cellular scaffold ...

Multiplexed Morse signals from cells

01-Apr-2016 - How many sorts, in how many copies? The biochemical processes that take place in cells require specific molecules to congregate and interact in specific locations. A novel type of high-resolution microscopy developed at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried and Harvard ...

China Medical Technologies and Leica Microsystems Announce Collaboration

10-Aug-2011 - China Medical Technologies, Inc. (CMED) and Leica Biosystems, a division of Leica Microsystems, announced that they have established a sales, research and development collaboration to co-develop and market automated FISH kits to be used on the Leica BOND system. CMED will sell the Automated FISH ...