Why anorexic patients cling to their eating disorder

...g weight loss. Using MRI technology, scientists at heidelberg University Hospital have discovered for the first ... of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine at heidelberg University Hospital (Medical Director: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Herzog) arose in cooperation with the heidelberg University Hospitals of General Psychiatry and Neu...

Therapy should extend beyond childhood

...ic disease glutaric aciduria type I researchers at heidelberg University Hospital have succeeded for the first t...ell as elucidating its temporal evolution. The heidelberg researchers now assume that during the course of t... development of severe movement disorders. The heidelberg researchers now assume that during the course of t...

The decision about the incision: Is midline or transverse better for abdominal surgery?

... An unusual study at the Department of Surgery at heidelberg University Hospital examined for the first time wh...sibly due to circulatory problems. The surgeons in heidelberg thus recommend that the surgeon make an individual.... Bchler, Director of the Department of Surgery at heidelberg University Hospital. This randomised trial was ...

Effective pain treatment for cancer patients?

... medication. Researchers at the Pharmacology Institute of the University of heidelberg have found the possible reasons for this tumors release two signal substan...e organism. An injection against tumor pain? The discovery made in heidelberg opens up new prospects in the fight against cancer pain in the next step, ...

Gunther Von Hagens' BODY WORLDS and KORPERWELTEN - Not Affiliated With Paris Copycat Display

...enquiries that are bound by inviolable European standards of human rights and ethics. My exhibitions only use donor bodies, primarily German, from the heidelberg Institute for Plastination's Body Donation Program. BODY WORLDS is not affiliated or connected in any way to the cadaver display in Paris." F...

Omega-3s of No Added Benefit to Heart Attack Patients

...op of current, strictly guideline-based treatment," Dr. Jochen Senges, a professor of cardiology at the Heart Center Ludwigshafen at the University of heidelberg in Germany, said in a prepared statement. "In our study, we saw no beneficial effect. In patients who are already taking optimal medical therapy, c...

ICW Master Patient Index Passes HITSP Certification and IHE Tests

... clients include the consortium of regional hospitals in the Swiss Canton of St. Gallen, Hirslanden, Switzerland's leading private hospital group, the heidelberg University Clinic, and the Health Centers Rhine-Neckar. For more information, please contact: InterComponentWare AG Dirk Schuhmann ...

Lung cancer: Molecular scissors determine therapy effectiveness

...o the antibody therapy. Professor Heike Allgayer heads the Department of Experimental Surgery of the Mannheim Medical Faculty of the University of heidelberg and the Clinical Cooperation Unit "Molecular Oncology of Solid Tumors" at DKFZ. The scientist suspects that the therapeutic antibody can disarm, in pa...

A new measure for the malignancy of melanoma

...ascular wall cells. The departments of Prof. Dr. Hellmut Augustin and Prof. Dirk Schadendorf of DKFZ and Mannheim Medical Faculty of the University of heidelberg have investigated the role of a growth factor called angiopoietin-2 (Ang2) in malignant melanoma. The docking station of Ang2 is the receptor Tie2 on ...

Anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens, Pioneer of Anatomical Exhibitions Not Affiliated With Copycat Display in Paris

...bound by inviolable European standards of human rights and ethics. The exhibitions that bear my name only use donor bodies, primarily German, from the heidelberg Institute for Plastination's Donor Program. It is therefore important for the media and people of Paris and France to know that I am not affiliated or...

Heidelberg in Medical Dictionary

Macrophage

...ed macrophage mRNA was reverse transcribed by M-MuLV Reverse ... Home page of Macrophage Biology Group, Medical Centre Mannheim, University of heidelberg ... Macrophages . Announcements. People. Protocols. Links. Home ... ...

Heidelberg in Biological News

EMBO pioneers pension plan for internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers

...r post-doctoral research terms. This is the first time that a European science organization has established a pension plan for its fellows. MLP, a heidelberg based independent financial services and wealth management consulting company, has developed the concept and will also administer the pension plan acc...

From the glass to the brain in 6 minutes

... drink can quickly go to your head. Researchers in heidelberg tested this well-known adage. Only six minutes aft...ken place in the brain cells, as the scientists in heidelberg proved using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)... metabolism at the Department of Neuroradiology at heidelberg University Hospital (Medical Director: Prof. Dr. M...

German Research Minister Schavan: 'Rapid knowledge transfer can safe lives'

...consortium include the creation and use of effective translational research units at partnering sites within a network throughout Germany. The DKFZ in heidelberg as the core research center will collaborate with selected partners at university hospitals at up to six sites. "In this collaboration, DKFZ will be s...

Sugarcoating fruit fly development

...amically added to and removed from the protein. 25 years after its first discovery, researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in heidelberg have now gained insight into the role of one of these tags, a small sugar residue, that is found on many different proteins across species. In the cur...

Old stain in a new combination

...na Faso, specialists in tropical medicine from the heidelberg University Hospital have shown that in combination...laria patients between the ages of six and ten the heidelberg scientists tested the effect of combination therap...complement each other." Since the study group from heidelberg has used methylene blue in Western Africa for year...

Visualizing virus replication in three dimensions

...ople around the world are infected. Researchers at the Hygiene Institute at heidelberg University Hospital were the first to present a three-dimensional model of ...alf Bartenschlager, director of the Department of Molecular Virology at the heidelberg Hygiene Institute and his team, working in cooperation with colleagues from...

'First aid' for brain cells comes from blood

... first time, scientists at the Neurology Clinic at heidelberg University Hospital have shown that certain immune... causes severe disability. The Neurology Clinic in heidelberg under the direction of its medical director Profes...tkamp, senior physician at the Neurology Clinic of heidelberg University Hospital has now shown in stroke models...

HIV dearms protective protein in cells

...nishes the cell's supply. A team of researchers in heidelberg under supervision of virologist Dr. Oliver Keppler...t strategy. Another important discovery of the heidelberg virologists this strategy of the human HIV is not...ovement of the small animal model developed by the heidelberg researchers. The study was published in the journa...

How tumor cells move

...g metastases. Scientists at the Pharmacology Institute of the University of heidelberg have discovered the previously unknown cell signal factor SCAI (suppressor ...ssible formation of metastases." In their recently published study, the heidelberg researchers examined cells from skin cancer (melanoma) and breast cancer. I...

Fluorescent cancer cells to guide brain surgeons

...tween tumor tissue and healthy brain tissue during surgery. Dr. Eva Frei of DKFZ, collaborating with doctors and researchers of the Medical Faculty of heidelberg University, has now developed a method to improve neurosurgery. The scientists took advantage of the fact that tumors cover their increased energy...

Heidelberg in Biological Technology

febit First to Offer Newly Published Mouse Genome on a Chip for DNA/RNA Detection and Enrichment

...as targeted enrichment of genes for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS). Professor Christian Koerner from the University Hospital for Pediatrics in heidelberg (Germany) and customer of febit's new mouse biochip, said: "It will be helpful and an advance for our research to use a whole genome microarray based ...

Automated Sequence Capture for Next-Generation Sequencing Paves the Way for Personalized Medicine

... this new technology for further studies," said Dr. Huentelman. HybSelect will be also employed in the newly developed Biomarker Discovery Center heidelberg for the detection of novel tumor markers. Within the European READNA -consortium ( RE volutionary A pproaches and D evices for N ucleic A cid ana...

Researchers at the University of Georgia Discover Protein is Crucial to Reproduction of Parasites Involved in Disease

... Sarah Rieff of the department of cellular biology; Cveta Tomova and Bruno Humbel of Utrecht University in the Netherlands; and Markus Meissner of the heidelberg University School of Medicine in Germany. Toxoplasma belongs to a group of parasites that contain a chloroplast-like organelle, the apicoplast. Ch...

Nitec Pharma Expands Senior Management Team

...nies including Merck KGaA, Knoll AG, and Intersan GmbH. Dr. Rensland completed his PhD in oncology at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in heidelberg in 1992. Dr. Rainer Rogasch will work as Vice President Technical Operations & Development and was previously General Manager and Technical Director ...

TomoTherapy extends reach to Germany

...evice, is expanding its product reach to Germany. The University Clinic heidelberg will be the first of four major university hospitals to treat cancer patie...burg. "We are pleased to share this milestone with the University Clinic heidelberg and with patients throughout the region," said Dr. Fred Robertson, CEO of T...

NIH 3T3

...eference Dr. Rainer Pepperkok EMBL-Europisches Laboratorium fr Molekulare Biologie Meyerhofstr. 1 D-69117 heidelberg Phone +49 6221 387-332 Fax +49 6221 387-306 e-mail: pepperko@embl-heidelberg.de ...

Heidelberg in Biological Dictionary

Promoter

...irus which is ... Instead, the gene promoter has many different parts or modules that act as ... EPD - Eukaryotic Promoter Database at EMBL, heidelberg ... PlantPromDB - A Database of Plant Promoter Sequences ... The Markov Chain Promoter Prediction Server ... My-Easy- Promoter automates your ...

Anatomy

...other Biological Science programs. Paula Henning (Franka Potente), a promising young medical student, wins a place at the prestigious and exclusive heidelberg Medical School, where she plans to study... Anatomy Atlases is a digital library of anatomy information ... Atlas of Microscopic Anatomy - ...