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Animal behaviour: AI can help fill the gap

09.12.2025 Label 2025 Label News and Calendar Label TopNews

Researchers from Cologne developed an AI method to recover missing data from animal movement recordings and to efficiently…

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The smell of fatty foods during pregnancy promotes obesity in offspring

01.12.2025 Label 2025 Label News and Calendar Label TopNews Label Dr. Sophie Steculorum

The brains of the offspring show similarities to those of obese adult mice

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Possible therapeutic approach to treat diabetic nerve damage discovered

27.11.2025 Label 2025 Label News and Calendar

Researchers have decoded the signalling pathway that inhibits nerve regeneration in diabetes and have developed a therapeutic…

Highly Cited Researchers Flyer

CECAD scientists among the most highly cited researchers worldwide

13.11.2025 Label 2025 Label News and Calendar Label University of Cologne Label TopNews

Annual ranking of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ published as an indicator for outstanding research / University of Cologne…

Microglia (green) responding to aggregated beta-amyloid plaques (blue) in the mouse cortex.

Protective Brain Immune Cell State Discovered

10.11.2025 Label 2025 Label News and Calendar Label TopNews Label Dr. Anne Schaefer

Discovery points to a potential new therapeutic pathway for Alzheimer’s disease

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Over half a million euros in DFG funding for Miguel Alejandre Alcazar & Julian Wagner

03.11.2025 Label Research Group Leaders Label 2025 Label News and Calendar Label Grants

DFG funding to investigate the neuro-cardiopulmonary interface in health and aging.

The green fluorescent signal indicates the stability of mitochondrial surface proteins (marked in red). Changes in cellular nutrient levels, such as the availability of leucine, alter the signal’s intensity, reflecting the dynamic regulation of mitochondrial proteins. Disruption of this process has been linked to diseases such as cancer and infertility.

From food to fuel: How leucine enhances mitochondrial energy production

31.10.2025 Label 2025 Label TopNews Label Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hoppe

Researchers from the University of Cologne discovered how a specific dietary amino acid increases cellular energy, opening new…

Leptin-sensing neurons in the lateral hypothalamus (colored green) help to overcome anxiety to enable adaptive behavioru. Input from prefrontal cortex is shown in red. White lines show the activity of individual neurons.

Eat, explore, rest: a leptin-sensing brain circuit helps overcome anxiety to meet vital needs

20.10.2025 Label 2025 Label News and Calendar Label TopNews Label Prof. Dr. Tatiana Korotkova

A research team at the University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne identifies a circuit in the brain that counteracts…

CECAD community members gather in anticipation of the vaccination event.

CECAD Health Day: Protecting Our Community

15.10.2025 Label People Label 2025 Label TopNews

Keeping CECAD healthy against COVID-19, Flu, and RSV with a vaccination campaign

CxUb is the last unit of the polyubiquitin gene, represented here by a moving train that carries at its end a bright wagon attached to a valuable trolley, which symbolize the C-terminally extended ubiquitin, CxUb in short. The train transitions from a stormy sky, with abnormal/dark mitochondrial-shaped clouds, representing stress, to a sunny sky full of healthy/bright mitochondria, thanks to protection from CxUb. The treasure, golden clock and hourglass are metaphors for the essential functions of CxUb in stress resistance, cellular homeostasis and healthy ageing.

A quiet ally: a ubiquitin precursor promotes stress resistance and longevity

02.10.2025

In response to cellular stress, the protein CxUb is activated to identify damaged proteins, thereby maintaining cellular health.…

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