Medicine

Cholestatic liver diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders resulting from genetic, metabolic and congenital defects, as well as DILI (drug-induced liver injury, a leading cause of attrition during drug development).

Current diagnostic techniques for DILI and cholestasis are based on the detection of serum markers and imaging methods such as computer tomography. However, these have a low resolution and only provide a limited understanding of the underlying disease etiology. Therapeutic ...

This novel screwless coupling, which can also be used as overload clutch, offers the possibility without additional tools to connect two rotatable elements even under extremely tight conditions, backlash-free and force fit with high precision. Due to their size, couplings known to date on the market are unsuitable for applications in the field of electronics, optics, metrology and precision engineering. Whereas thanks to the new technology, which was developed at the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...

An new approach for treatment of obesity and insulin resistance, that relies on selective ablation of a unique, previously uncharacterized subpopulation of myeloid NK cells.

Biomarkers of ageing have long been sought after to help assess the biological age and general health status of individuals. Considerable efforts have been invested to identify such biomarkers, including physiologic readouts, metabolic parameters, glycomic profiles and others. Nevertheless, markers with strong predictive power have remained elusive.

Work in model organisms has identified several conserved signaling pathways that extend life span, such as reduced insulin/IGF signaling and ...