They can spoil your appetite for ice cream, cold lemonade or a lovely breakfast on the terrace. And this summer they are reported to be particularly numerous. Wasps! In search for food they leave their nests in swarms, boldly helping themselves to the rich buffets found with us humans. Particularly for those people who are […]
The circumstances of the death of Knut, the famous polar bear born in the Zoo Berlin, have finally been unraveled four years later. The answer presents a little scientific sensation which was published in “Scientific Reports” on August 27th. Knut fell sick with a so-called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a brain inflammation caused by autoantibodies against
Bone metabolic diseases are a major health problem, causing bone fractures, skeletal pain and deformities. Bone tissue is a living tissue which is composed of cells (osteocytes) and a mineral extracellular matrix. This comprises mostly calcium phosphate in crystalline form (hydroxyapatite) that is incorporated into an organic protein matrix consisting largely of type I collagen.
Many people enjoy travelling the world during their well-deserved holidays. But nobody wants to catch an infection during this time. Particularly, the risk of a dengue infection is often underestimated, although the tropical fever nowadays belongs to the most frequent virus infections in the world. Dengue fever is caused by the dengue virus (DENV) which is
They say mild winters bring mosquito plagues in the following spring/summer. This could also be the case this year – now that summer has eventually come. Actually, there seems to be an even bigger problem with mosquitoes in Germany today. The climate change – which has so far had rather mild consequences in our latitudes
