CECAD: News

How cold temperature prolongs fertility and lifespan

20.08.2019

Cold temperature delays the aging of the germline and extends fertility of C. elegans. The germline promotes the fitness of other tissues to induce...

Detox pathway extends lifespan of the worm C. elegans

25.07.2019

A mutation in mitochondrial gene doubles the lifespan in the worm C. elegans by turning on a detox pathway, researchers of the Cluster of Excellence...

Skin in balance: joint forces of polarity and cell mechanics

24.07.2019

Molecular mechanics in the skin of mice are driven by polarity genes as a team led by Sandra Iden of the Cluster of Excellence CECAD reports in...

New findings challenge established concepts of genetic inheritance: The body controls the integrity of heritable genomes

23.07.2019

Since more than hundred years heritance of the genetic information was thought to be autonomously controlled by the germ cells. Therefore, acquired...

Neutral evolution shapes lifespan and aging

22.07.2019

The evolution of short lifespan in African killifish is explained by the lack of strong selection against deleterious mutations

‘Only the stressed die young’: a molecular switch in flies is decisive for long life and stress resilience

05.06.2019

Study led by Mirka Uhlirova from CECAD finds that fruit flies lacking the transcription factor Ets21c live longer in a favourable, unstressed...

CECAD Research Group Leader Receives Professorship for Translational Nephrology at Cologne University Hospital

03.06.2019

Prof. Dr. Roman-Ulrich Müller has accepted the call for a new W2 professorship for Translational Nephrology at the Medical Faculty of the University...

Preventing cell death as novel therapeutic strategy for rheumatoid arthritis - new publication in Nature Cell Biology

14.05.2019

A collaborative study by research groups from the Cluster of Excellence CECAD, the University of Cologne, VIB, Ghent University, the Βiomedical...

Nora Vögtle, University of Freiburg: "MitoUPreR: Early events in mitochondrial unfolded protein response pathways”

10.04.2019

Biochemical Colloquium, CRC 1218 | Collaborative Research Centre on "Mitochondrial regulation of cellular function"

The smell of food coordinates cellular recycling and lifespan - new publication in Nature Metabolism

19.02.2019

The smell of food affects physiology and aging. This could be shown by the team of Prof. Thorsten Hoppe at the Cluster of Excellence for Aging...