When touching hurts The stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) is one of the best-known wild plants in Central Europe and a prime example of plant defence mechanisms. Despite its high content of proteins, minerals...
Outwitted cancer cells
Outwitted cancer cells
How medicine is optimising cancer treatments through checkpoint inhibitors Karin Hollricher Checkpoint molecules regulate the ability of the immune system to start or end an immune response as required....
Squid vs moonlight
Squid vs moonlight
Bringing brightness to the night’s ocean Bobtail squids of the Euprymna scolopes species are small, nocturnal sea creatures found mainly in tropical coastal regions, which – despite their diminutive size...
How climate change is changing the laboratory
How climate change is changing the laboratory
How a 2 °C shift is a whole world of difference for analyses Two degrees Celsius: that is the target the political leaders have set. Many experts are already predicting that even this seemingly small global...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
Immune tolerance or the immune system’s brake pedal Our body’s immune system is vital to our survival. Given the enormous breadth of germs that have the potential to make us ill, which surround us every...
