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Strengthening the immune system prior to birth no longer is a matter involving only mothers: For the first time, on the model of the broadnosed pipefish, researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, have demonstrated that fathers, too, have an influence on the immune system of their offspring. In vertebrates, the mother...more

Using the X-ray source DORIS at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, a research team has discovered that, in the event of high levels of calcium, the calcium pumps in our body cells switch on a booster. The results have been published in the esteemed journal "Nature". Calcium is an important control signal for numerous processes...more

The Brussels Helmholtz Office reports on possible cuts in EU research funding and on the first anniversary of "Science Europe", an organisation to represent research in europe. Furthermore there are reinforced cooperations between european and chinese universities. Also European X-Ray Laser Project XFEL representatives at the Deutsches...more

At the fusion facility ASDEX at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, a research institute associated within the Helmholtz Association, researchers managed to heat the fusion plasma to a new record temperature. Taking into account the size of the facility, this is a heat performance world record. This was made possibly by...more

Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the University Hospital Heidelberg have identified a weak spot in cancer cells: the HDAC11 enzyme. When this enzyme is switched off, the cancer cells die, whereas normal cells survive. However, substances counteracting HDAC enzymes that are so far available inhibit also other enzymes and...more