The Helmholtz International Lab "Causal Cell Dynamics" is now collaborating with the AI research institute Mila from Canada. The goal: to understand cellular processes in the development of diseases with the help of Big Data and AI. Fabian Theis and Yoshua Bengio explain the idea.

Researchers are gaining a better understanding of how long a passed infection or vaccination protects against the virus. The latest findings are rather reassuring, also with regard to the virus variants.

Engineer and computer scientist Narges Ahmidi has had to overcome a few hurdles since she began studying science in her native Iran. Today, she is working in Munich to optimize medical decisions with artificial intelligence (AI). 

The tracing of infection chains is in the hands of the public health departments. Impressions from the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf show how the use of the SORMAS program can help. The authority has been working with SORMAS since the spring. By the end of the year, 90 percent of the offices nationwide should be using the program - but so far, only 95 are.

We have been living with the Corona pandemic for a year now. A lot has changed in patient treatment since then. Senior physician Harald Prüß explains which drugs are effective and which are not - and how the survival chances of intensive care patients have developed.

An international research team has succeeded in decoding the genetic makeup of wheat. This opens up great opportunities for nutrition and health: New wheat varieties can feed more people worldwide - and the genome helps to better understand allergies and intolerances.

Image analysis with artificial intelligence (AI) is a major topic of the future in medicine. Medical computer scientists from Heidelberg have now developed a method with which all image data can be processed with AI - free of charge and also usable by laypersons.

Wie verändert eine COVID-19-Erkrankung die Gedächtnisleistung? Und welche Rolle spielt die psychische Belastung durch die Pandemie? Mit einer App wollen Hirnforscher mögliche Effekte auf das Gehirn untersuchen. Bürger ab 18 Jahren können mitmachen – auch diejenigen, die nicht an COVID-19 erkrankt sind.

COVID-19 can also trigger chronic fatigue syndrome in some infected individuals. How many patients are affected - and why the disease has so far been difficult to recognize and treat.