Focus: Health

A miniscule bacterium can influence whether we are diseased or healthy, a virus or a cell can make the...

Throbbing, wrenching, stabbing: headaches can differ a lot – and almost everyone has them. The West German Headache Center...

What lives inside and on our body is the subject of emerging microbiome research. Jan Kehrmann’s team has discovered...

What happens deep down in Earth’s subsurface? That’s the focus of Alexander Probst’s research. He also studies how microorganisms...

Height: just under 1.80 meters; weight: approximately 85 kilograms. One X and one Y chromosome. This has been more...

Chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery – these are the three common forms of cancer therapy. The lymphoma specialists at University...

The internationally recognised Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study has been investigating cardiovascular diseases for more than 23 years. There’s no...

Optimistically we swallow the tablet, because it helped last time. Or we take one for the first time and...