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Tag: Molecular Biology

Interview & Opinion

29 June 2023

“The most important thing is to encourage curiosity”

Interview: Hanna Gabriel

The Viennese start-up Proxygen has recently announced its collaboration with MSD, a US pharmaceutical group, which will invest up to 2.3 billion euros in the young Austrian biotech company, a spin-off of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, over the next few years. In return, Proxygen plans to develop so-called “molecular glue degraders” for medical applications […] Continue reading ““The most important thing is to encourage curiosity””
Cell biologist Stephanie J. Ellis

Interview & Opinion

22 June 2023

How skin cells monitor their neighbors

Interview: Hanna Gabriel

Stephanie J. Ellis is a cell and developmental biologist. She explores how skin cells keep tabs on the “fitness” of their neighbors and weed them out if necessary. The principles behind this quality control process are not yet fully understood. To address the question, Ellis has now been awarded the 2023 START Award – one […] Continue reading “How skin cells monitor their neighbors”

Interview & Opinion

22 June 2021

Taking the antibody taxi right into the cancer cell

Interview: Juliane Fischer

START Award winner Hannes Mikula is a chemist who works at the interface between chemistry and biology and wants to improve cancer therapy. His goal is to steer active substances directly into the tumour cell. In this way, the substances do not attack healthy cells and destroy specifically the cancer cells. Continue reading “Taking the antibody taxi right into the cancer cell”

Projects

12 November 2018

A power couple mobilises cancer cells

The ILEI protein transforms sedentary into mobile cells and is therefore regarded as an important signal inducer for the metastasis of cancer cells. ILEI is only one member of a protein family that has not been widely researched. With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, cancer researcher Agnes Csiszar has demonstrated that one […] Continue reading “A power couple mobilises cancer cells”

Projects

6 August 2018

How to extract biofuel from yeast cells

In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Graz is investigating how fat for the production of biodiesel can be produced using genetically modified yeast cells. Continue reading “How to extract biofuel from yeast cells”

Projects

10 April 2017

Breast milk as a weapon against cancer

In a project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, scientists at the University of Graz modified and reinforced a host defence peptide from breast milk so as to enable it to specifically detect cancer cells. The active substance can then induce cell death. Research continues on this new therapeutic approach to types of cancer […] Continue reading “Breast milk as a weapon against cancer”

Projects

11 April 2016

Messenger substance live on show

Scientists have succeeded in making real-time measurements of changes in the concentration of the important messenger substance nitric oxide (NO) in human cells for the first time. The breakthrough, which has been published in the journal “Nature Communications”, was achieved by fusing two special proteins which then acted as a measurement probe. Continue reading “Messenger substance live on show”

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