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A new mechanism triggering cell death and inflammation: a left turn that kills

25.03.2020 News and Calendar

Writing in ‘Nature’, researchers from Cologne, Texas and London describe their discovery of a new mechanism that could contribute…

Autophagy: Scientists discover novel role for self-recycling process in the brain

24.03.2020

Proteins classically associated with autophagy regulate the speed of intracellular transport / Publication in ‚Nature…

Why Do Cells Not Regenerate After Disease Or Upon Ageing?

24.03.2020

Carien Niessen in a video by Latest Thinking

New technique: monitoring organs and cells in living fly larvae

12.02.2020

New imaging technique published in the journal "Nature Protocols"

"Clusters4Future" - Cologne Cluster for Healthy & Active Ageing (CCAA) among the 16 finalists

06.02.2020

A jury of experts has selected 16 out of 137 proposals for funding for a conception phase in the "Clusters4Future" ideas…

New membranes for cellular recycling

06.02.2020 News and Calendar TopNews

Cells produce the shell of the autophagosomes on the spot

Bacteria can ‘outsmart’ programmed cell death

25.12.2019 TopNews

To be able to multiply, bacteria that cause diarrhoea block mediators of programmed cell death, as Hamid Kashkar and his team show…

How mitochondria stick together

25.12.2019 TopNews

Two changes in the conformation of mitochondria play a crucial role in healthy organisms as Escobar-Henriques lab shows in two…

Professorship for Sandra Iden at Saarland University

09.12.2019

Sandra Iden, currently CECAD Research Group Leader, recently accepted a tenured professorship for cell and developmental biology…

How and why cells die: New CRC 1403 investigates fundamental questions of cell death

28.11.2019 TopNews

Third-party project "Cell death in immunity, inflammations and diseases" (CRC 1403) funded with 13 million euros for four years