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DZIF researchers have discovered that a protein which is well known for its role as a tumor suppressor is also required for inhibition of the replication of the coronavirus that causes SARS. The

The communities of microbes in the intestine of the mouse, the gut microbiota, have a significant impact on the research output. However, there is still insufficient information available about many

DZIF scientists at the University of Tübingen have now uncovered a major cause of blood poisoning by staphylococci infections. The results of their study have been published in the latest issue of

Since the start of the HIV epidemic, there have been speculations as to why HIV and the immunodeficiency syndrome it causes have spread so much more in Africa than in other countries around the world

In a clinical trial at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), leukaemia patients are being administered specially purified immune cells, so-called memory T cells, for the first time after a

A potential lifesaver lies unrecognized in the human body: Scientists at the University of Tübingen and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have discovered that Staphylococcus lugdunensis

Hopes for tuberculosis treatment have been raised by an international study in which DZIF scientists from the Research Center Borstel were also involved. Resistance to pyrazinamide und

A team of researchers from the Heinrich Pette Institute and the USA have succeeded in identifying a protein called HLA-F which functions as the ligand of an activating natural killer cell receptor

In June, the World Health Organisation (WHO) decided that the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro can take place despite the Zika virus. The risk of a further international spread is low. The virus is

DZIF scientists from Lübeck have succeeded in uncovering the three dimensional structure of a key enzyme in the Zika virus. With this, they have laid the basis for developing antiviral agents. The