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Lantibiotics: antibacterial substance with new mechanism of action discovered

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Zero maternal mortality in 2023 at Ghanaian cooperation hospital

The Presbyterian Hospital in Agogo, Ghana, recorded zero deaths among women during or after childbirth last year. This is a major medical success after 499 fatalities in 2020. The hospital management
From left to right: Prof. Luka Cicin-Sain, Head of the "Viral Immunology" Department at the HZI; Adhara Madhuri, PhD student at the HZI; Henrik Klimke, Chairman of the Günter Hansmeier Krebsstiftung.
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Doctoral project researches immunotherapy of CMV infections in children with leukaemia

Leukaemia is the most common cancer in children. Cancer treatment severely weakens the children's immune system and they can easily develop opportunistic infections. One of the most common causes of
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Mechanism of action of the hepatitis B and D virus cell entry inhibitor bulevirtide deciphered

Over 12 million people worldwide suffer from a chronic infection with the hepatitis D virus. This most severe viral liver disease is associated with a high risk of dying from liver cirrhosis and liver
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