Record numbers of whooping cough endanger babies
The Children's Health Foundation is sounding the alarm: in 2024, 25,271 cases of whooping cough were reported in Germany, the highest number in ten years and more than twice as many as in 2014. Infants under one year of age are particularly affected and are at high...
German Medical Association calls for reform of recognition procedures for foreign doctors
In a new position paper, the German Medical Association (BÄK) has called for urgent reforms to recognition procedures for foreign doctors in order to combat the shortage of specialists in the German healthcare system. The document, published on 10 July 2025,...
DFKI researchers warn against X-hacking in explainable AI
Researchers from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) have presented a new risk in the field of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025: "X-Hacking". The study by Prof....
INQUIRED: “An exponential increase in security vulnerabilities presents us with an ever-increasing risk”
The number of newly discovered security vulnerabilities in software is increasing at an ever-increasing rate. At an international congress in Las Vegas, a young German researcher presented the reasons behind this trend. In this interview, Joline Wochnik explains why...
Time of day influences exam success at Italian universities
A study by the University of Messina shows that the timing of oral examinations at Italian universities has a significant impact on students' chances of success. According to the study published in "Frontiers in Psychology", pass rates are highest around lunchtime,...
Diabetes increases the risk of colorectal cancer: New findings on immunocompromised tumors
A research team at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ ) has gained new insights into the link between diabetes and an increased risk of colorectal cancer. The study shows that tumors with low immune cell density, so-called immunocold tumors, are particularly...
Leukemia: Laboratory platform enables automated CAR-T cell production at the point of treatment
The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen and the University Hospital of Würzburg, together with eleven international partners, have developed an automated platform for the production of genetically modified CAR-T cells. This should enable the...
New device revolutionizes the production of platelet-rich plasma
Researchers from the Microfluidics Cluster at the Alava Campus of the University of the Basque Country (EHU) have developed a portable, low-cost system for the production of high-quality platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Under the leadership of Ikerbasque professor Lourdes...
Breakthrough in genome research: diversity of the human genome mapped in detail
An international research group led by Prof. Dr. Tobias Marschall from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf has re-analyzed the data from the 1000 Genomes Project (2007-2015) using modern sequencing technologies. The results, published in two studies in the journal...
Sensation: Albumin triggers fungal virulence
A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) in Jena has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which the yeast Candida albicans can damage human tissue. The study, published in Nature...
