Press releases

- ERC Grant for DZNE researcher Markus Zweckstetter

Markus Zweckstetter from the Goettingen site of the DZNE has been awarded an “Advanced Grant” from the European Research Council. He will explore new techniques on sub-nanometer level to analyze non-membrane organelles.

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- New Computer Architecture: Time Lapse for Dementia Research

The DZNE is just starting the operation of a new high-performance computer. It should significantly accelerate the evaluation of biomedical data and thus lead to faster progress in dementia research. For this the computer uses the principles of "Memory-Driven Computing".

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- Getting lost: Why older people might lose their way

Floor pattern as used in one of the virtual reality experiments.

New clues on why our sense of direction tends to fade with age. DZNE researchers report on this in “Current Biology”.

 

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- DZNE researcher receives world’s top Brain Prize

Protrait Prof. Haass

Together with three other neuroscientists Christian Haass, speaker of the DZNE Munich site, receives the world’s most valuable prize for brain research.

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- New Impetus for Research on Rare Neurological Disorders

Exterior view RKU

The science minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg Theresia Bauer and Bärbel Brumme-Bothe, head of the department for life sciences at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research have given the start signal for Ulm as a further site of the DZNE.

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- Laboratory Study Shows that Father’s Age Can Affect Offspring Lifespan

How does the father’s age at conception affect his children? DZNE researchers have studied this question in mice, finding ageing-associated epigenetic changes that seem to be transferable from one generation to the next. Their results are published in the journal PNAS.

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- Experimental Drug Interferes with Different Mechanisms Associated to Alzheimer’s Disease

The chemical compound “anle138b” eases cognitive deficits and normalizes gene expression in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.

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- Combating Anxiety with Virtual Reality

Scientists at the DZNE in Magdeburg are developing an innovative therapy based on virtual reality to treat social anxiety disorders. For this purpose, the European Research Council is providing about 150,000 Euro.

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- Fast food makes the immune system more aggressive in the long term

Prof. Eicke Latz and Dr. Anette Christ

Study led by the University of Bonn, which also involved researchers of the DZNE shows that even after a change to a healthy diet, the body‘s defenses remain hyperactive.

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- Together against Alzheimer's & Co.

DZNE, ChemDiv and Torrey Pines Investment Launch Inflammasome Discovery Program of Translational Collaboration on Neurodegeneration

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