Microchip Implant Partially Restores Vision in AMD Patients
In an international study, it has been possible for the first time to partially restore central vision in patients with geographic atrophy, a severe form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The innovative subretinal microchip implant led to significant...
PTB and Charité open Center for Quantum Sensors in Brain Research
The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have opened a new Center for Magnetoencephalography with Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPM-MEG). The center is intended to bring progress in research into neurological...
DKLM 2025: Impact of Aerial Transport by Drone on HIL Indices in Blood Samples
Accurate laboratory diagnostics depend on the integrity of transported blood samples, particularly with regard to preanalytical quality markers such as the hemolytic, lipemic, and icteric (HIL) indices. These indices are essential for detecting sample degradation due...
Cultural and sporting highlights around DKLM 2025: Sustainable and beyond conventions
The German Congress for Laboratory Medicine 2025, which will take place from 23 to 24 October at the Congress Center Leipzig, combines scientific precision medicine with a wide range of cultural and sporting activities in the city. Under the motto "Science for...
LMU researchers enable PET detection of synapse loss in multiple sclerosis
In Germany, around 250,000 people suffer from multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks structures of the central nervous system. These attacks also affect the gray matter in the brain, which consists of nerve cell bodies and...
Need to catch up on evidence-based healthcare
On the occasion of World Evidence-Based Health Care Day on 20 October 2025, Cochrane Germany is highlighting deficits in German patient care. Patients are entitled to treatment based on trustworthy scientific evidence, i.e. the best available knowledge. However, this...
Photocatalysis: Rostock researchers develop environmentally friendly methods for chemistry
Photocatalysis is establishing itself as one of the leading fields in chemistry, where significant findings are being made. At the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Rostock , Dr. Jola Pospech leads a team that is developing innovative approaches for established...
Registration and abstract submission for the ISSCR 2026 in Montréal
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has opened registration and abstract submission for the 2026 Annual Meeting of the ISSCR , which will be held in Montreal, Canada, from July 8 to 11, 2026. The Global Stem Cell Event brings together leading...
Detection and management of differences in biochemical results across identical analyzers in high-volume laboratories: a practical internal quality control-based method
Ensuring result comparability across identical analyzers is critical in high-throughput clinical laboratories. ISO 15189:2022 emphasizes this requirement (clause 7.3.7.4), particularly for assays with low within-subject biological variation (BV), where reference...
New method enables high-resolution infrared maps of living cells
Infrared vibrational spectroscopy at the synchrotron source BESSY II can be used to create high-resolution maps of molecules in living cells and cell organelles in their natural aqueous environment. This is shown by a study by a team from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and...
