Do intelligent people think faster? Researchers at the BIH and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, together with a colleague from Barcelona, made the surprising finding that participants with higher intelligence scores were only quicker when tackling simple tasks, while they took longer to solve difficult problems than subjects with lower IQ…
The Swedish biotechnologist and biomedical scientist Johanna Bolander has been awarded a W1 professorship in Model Systems for Regenerative Therapies. She wants to simulate in the laboratory the processes that underlies failed musculoskeletal tissue repair. The long term goal with her research aims to gain a deeper understanding, in order to aid…
An interdisciplinary team led by Prof. Angela Relógio, a scientist at Charité’s Molecular Cancer Research Center (MKFZ) and Institute for Theoretical Biology and the MSH Medical School Hamburg, has developed a non-invasive method for profiling a person’s unique circadian rhythm. Starting with a simple saliva sample, the team of experts can create a…
People around the world have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus for more than three years. It quickly became apparent that killer T cells play a crucial role in fighting the virus in the body by killing off infected cells. However, it was not entirely clear how the immune system manages to activate the defenses in a targeted manner and then…
We already know in great detail how proteins are encoded in the DNA sequence of our genes. However, our understanding how one gene is active in one cell, but inactive in another is much more limited. While it's clear that the information for this gene activity is also “programmed” in DNA, we have yet to crack the regulatory code. Daniel Ibrahim, a…
Jan Klocke, MD, and Christian Oeing, MD, Clinician Scientists at the BIH Biomedical Innovation Academy (BIA) and physicians at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, were extraordinarily successful with their research. Jan Klocke receives the "2023 ISN-KI Early Career Researcher Award for Clinical Science" from the International Society of…
Critically ill COVID-19 patients often have antibodies in their blood that bind to the body’s own structures, so-called autoantibodies. Scientists from the BIH at Charité and the Max Delbrück Center have now discovered that these autoantibodies frequently bind to not just one but multiple targets. This surprising finding calls into question the…
Bone is the second most commonly transplanted tissue after blood, with about two million bone transplants performed worldwide each year – but often with only moderate therapeutic success. Cell-based therapies could provide an alternative approach to transplantation. Together with colleagues from Paracelsus Medical Private University (PMU) Salzburg,…
