In order to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Stuttgart research institute has quickly developed a prototype of a mobile cleaning and disi...

Endoprostheses have been helping patients regain their mobility for 130 years. Pioneering work was carried out by Themistocles Gluck in Berlin in 1...

A new type of optical switch makes it possible to precisely control the lifetime of genetic "transcripts". These serve the cell as building instruc...

Every year, around 420,000 people in Germany become infected with the often particularly resistant "hospital germs", of which the antibiotic-resist...

Research into the transmission and impact of the coronavirus disease Covid-19 is interdisciplinary. This is clearly demonstrated in the following t...

Since the development of medical ultrasound imaging in the 1950s, the main technology for measuring ultrasound waves has been based on the use of p...

If germs enter a wound, they can trigger an infection that may not heal or even develop into life-threatening blood poisoning (sepsis). The problem...

Today, a large number of illnesses are treated with medication. This is often associated with side effects that can be serious for the person who i...

A team from the industrial research institute Innovent e.V. has been working in the field of biomaterials for over 10 years in the area of electros...