A vitamin D3 deficiency can lead to severe symptoms, for example in people suffering from allergic asthma. This has already been shown in several studies. However, we still do not fully understand how exactly this vitamin influences the cellular inflammatory reaction in the body.
Flying is the most damaging mode of transportation for our climate. At least, up until now. But work is already underway to investigate technical alternatives to conventional aircraft. For example, airships with highly efficient solar cells and extremely light batteries on board. Prof. Dr. Christoph Pflaum from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), together with Prof. Dr. Agnes Jocher from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the FAU student Tim Riffelmacher, has investigated which route a solar airship would have to take in order to fly from London to New York as quickly and as climate-friendly as possible.
Green hydrogen could play a key role in the energy transition. Electrocatalytic splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen requires huge amounts of electricity, which means the efficiency of this method for the energy transition is low compared to that of fossil fuels.
At first glance music and computer science might have little to do with one another, but Prof. Dr. Meinard Müller thinks differently: he aims to use artificial intelligence to analyze complex characteristics and hidden relations in music.
HTLV-1 triggers aggressive forms of leukemia or an incurable spinal cord disease that leads to paralysis: the virus is the often ignored but no less insidious sibling of the HIV virus that causes AIDS and also belongs to the family of retroviruses. A group of researchers from TU Dresden, the company PROVIREX Genome Editing Therapies and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now provided initial proof of concept for a potential therapeutic approach.
Another researcher from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The mathematician and Humboldt professor Dr. Enrique Zuazua will receive up to 2.5 million euros for his project “Control for Deep and Federated Learning”.
“There won’t be a miracle cure for cancer,” says Thomas Brabletz. “A multi-faceted approach has to be taken to fighting cancer, which means that the most successful treatment strategy is likely to involve an intelligent combination of drugs, often tailored to the individual patient’s needs, that target various weaknesses.” Thomas Brabletz, a renowned cancer researcher, hopes to pinpoint these weaknesses, and is focusing on a relentless opponent that is still almost invariably fatal, even today and in spite of the major advancements made over recent years: metastatic cancer.
When you hear the word microbiome, the chances are you will think of the gut. But the microbiome is so much more, namely the total of all microorganisms living on and in the human body. Skin, lungs or the digestive system, the mouth, throat, nose or the genital tract: they are all home to tiny living organisms such as bacteria, viruses or fungi. When the balance is correct, they are beneficial to human health. But what does the ideal microbiome look like? And what influence do quintillions of invisible organisms have on human health and disease?
Universitätsklinikum Erlangen is the first in the world to use CAR T-cells to successfully treat a patient suffering from a severe case of muscle inflammation (myositis). The disease is triggered by a malfunction in the immune system that leads to inflammation of the muscles, and the risk of developing a very severe form of the disease is high. The journal Lancet has now published news of the successful treatment in a case report.
It is a feather in the cap for outstanding research at the Department of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU): The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Consolidator Grant to Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kainz. The professor of Image Data Exploration and Analysis has received the most prestigious research funding award available throughout the whole of Europe for a project focusing on automated medical image analysis. The two million euros in funding over a period of five years is to be used to train computer tools based on artificial intelligence to reliably recognize healthy human tissue based on image material.
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