Supported by funding from the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a team from the Max F. Perutz Laboratories deciphered the mechanism of the TTP protein as a time-switch for the programmed cell death of white blood cells. A targeted death of these cells prevents an excessive immune reaction, but could also be used as a therapeutic […] Continue reading “Time-switch for immune cells”
During his doctoral studies at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Maximilian Bösch already examined in detail cancer and its cell structures. At the Kantonsspital St. Gallen, the Schrödinger grant holder has found the ideal environment for his ongoing research. Continue reading “Grüezi from Switzerland”
A feedback mechanism in the body is responsible for keeping immune responses from getting out of hand. It works at the level of certain genes, linking the inactivation of those genes to the progress made in transcribing them: This clever mechanism was discovered as part of an Austrian Science Fund FWF project and was recently […] Continue reading “Clever feedback system regulates immune responses”