Using human cell cultures, a German-British research team succeeded in showing that omicron viruses are less effective than delta viruses in inhibiting the cell's own immune response by the messenger interferon. This may contribute to the observed lower pathogenicity of the omicron variant in patients.

The Foundation to Promote Cancer Research at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg (JMU) supports cancer research projects using state-of-the-art methods. Among other things, the development of a personalized in vitro tumor model is planned, and signaling pathway analyses, machine learning methods, as well as artificial intelligence, will be used.

Researchers from the Organo-Lab at the University of Tübingen, Germany, have developed an immuno-competent choroid on-chip model based on human cells. The model enables the study of drug-induced toxicity reactions in the eye or inflammatory diseases of the choroid such as uveitis and wet age-related macular degeneration.

An international team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has discovered new findings on the development of Alzheimer's disease in a patient study.