A team of scientists from the IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Düsseldorf developed and validated a computational webserver which allows scientists to genotype mutations using nanopore sequencing. The results of this study were published in the renowned scientific journal Nucleic Acids Research. (Düsseldorf, 15-JULY-2022) – Diseases of genetic cause can be

A team of scientists from the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Düsseldorf developed a multicellular model for human neurometabolic diseases associated with mitochondrial complex I deficiency and identified a potential therapeutic compound as well as its underlying mechanism. The results

Researchers from the IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine in Düsseldorf showed that particular nanoparticles affect nutrient uptake in the roundworm. The study was published in “Nanotoxicology”. Düsseldorf, 25.10.2019. Nanoparticles from silicon dioxide (silica; SiO2) are added to food products for example as anticaking agent. Recent research results from the model organism Caenorhabditis