What Soccer has to do with Molecular Biology
What happens with oxygen in the lungs? How is the fuel in cells formed, and how is it replenished? And why do soccer players never need to use the toilet in 45 minutes?
BLOG - Medicine
Welcome to the Lindau Blog
Finally the time has come: the Lindau Blog is launched. The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings now provide a new platform for online debates with blog posts about global scientific topics, current research findings, exciting portraits of Nobel Laureates and young scientists and the interplay of science and society.
Faces – Young Scientist Profile: Stefano Sandrone
In the first issue of “Faces” we introduce Italian Neuroscientist Stefano Sandrone.
The future of biomedicine in global health
The future of medicine is contained in ‘The Four Ps’: Personalised, Predictive, Preventative, and Participatory. Aaron Ciechanover, speaking on a panel on the future of biomedicine at the Lindau meeting, explains: "We may have the ability to profile patients before they get sick, therefore we may have the ability to predict diseases – and also ‘preventative’ […]
Nobel Laureates and humanitarian advocates: Agre and Wiesel
I fear I have already offended Professor Torsten Wiesel only one question into our interview. The softly spoken man and gentle man sitting in front of me is a Nobel Laureate for his work on identifying specialist cell functions in the visual cortex. The Swedish laureate won the prize in 1981, and I am speaking to him […]
Young researchers give us real insights in their home, life and Lindau experiences
Seven young researchers have become video experts during the last weeks and will do even more this week. They have interviewed their supporters back home, did a actual home story of their lives and will show us their Lindau experiences from now on. Before we start I’d like to introduce the team (five women and […]
Infections that cause cancer – Harald zur Hausen
Even if you adore red meat, you’ll put off your big juicy steak by hearing what Harald zur Hausen has to say about it. At the 61st Lindau meeting, the Nobel laureate spoke about his current hypothesis about why beef causes colorectal cancer. He thinks it might contain a nasty pathogen that infects us that then causes […]
Researcher portrait: Madhurima Benekareddy
lindaunobelMadhurima Benekareddy is a 27-year-old researcher standing at the cross-roads of psychology and neuroscience. She researches the effects of trauma on the brain in its delicate stages of development, when we are children and adolescents, at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. The young brain is more plastic, and therefore can be particularly badly affected by negative – or positive – events. Trauma […]
Jonathan Carlson tries to understand how HIV adapts when it is attacked
Yesterday’s opening ceremony was concluded with a panel session that featured Bill Gates, Nobel laureate Ada Yonath, Sandra Chisamba and Jonathan Carlson. Together they discussed how we should deal with threats to global health, such as HIV and malaria, and how young scientists could be stimulated to research these important, but relatively neglected topics. Jonathan Carlson was […]
Laying down the global health gauntlet
The panel on global health at the opening ceremony of the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau well and truly laid the gauntlet down to young researchers from around the world. On the panel was: Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Ada Yonath, Noble Laureate in […]
Sandra Chishimba and her fight against Malaria
Today the 61. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will be openend and Sandra Chishimba will play a special role: She will take part at a panel discussion together with Bill Gates, Nobel Laureate Ada Yonath (Chemistry 2009) and Jonathan Carlson (Microsoft Research) – maybe because Malaria is the main topic of her life. She has battled […]
The challenges and allure of protein design: A memo for this year’s young researchers
An inspiration from the birth of aviation A few weeks ago I visited the small coastal town of Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Kitty Hawk is where the Wright brothers made their epoch-making first powered flight. Big stones mark the start and end points of the flight. There is a huge monument on top of […]