Young researchers Jan Gralton and Sven-Eric Schelhorn are fascinated by the minute world of viruses. They have plenty of questions for Harald zur Hausen who won a Nobel Prize for proving that human papillomaviruses (HPV) can cause cervical cancer. All three are worried by public distrust of the HPV vaccine, which was made possible by […]
Hans Rosling – Internationl Health, Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Nobel Laureate Harald zur Hausen, Unni Karunakara – Medicine sans frontier, Georg Schütte – BMBF, James W. Vaupel – Director Max-Planck Institute for demographic research, Rostock
Wie alle Wissenschaftler publizieren auch zukünftige Nobelpreisträger ihre Forschungsergebnisse in peer-revieweten Wissenschaftsmagazinen. Ihre ursprünglich veröffentlichten Ergebnisse, Thesen und Ideen sind in den digitalen Archiven der Wissenschaftsliteratur auch Jahre und Jahrzehnte später konserviert, als wären sie erst gestern publiziert worden. Lucas Brouwers, der Kollege im englischen Lindau Blog und dessen Blogpost ich hier frei übersetze, hatte […]
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 […]
Was ist für die Entstehung von Krebs verantwortlich? Die meisten werden relativ schnell auf kanzerogene Chemikalien kommen, also zum Beispiel Nitrosamine im Tabakrauch. Bekannt ist natürlich auch die krebsauslösende Wirkung ionisierender Strahlung. Daher cremt man sich in der Sonne ein, versucht die Anzahl der Röntgenuntersuchungen zu minimieren und möglichst den Kontakt zu radioaktiven Substanzen zu […]
Infections in the Etiology of Human Cancers
Nobel laureates, like all scientists, have published their findings in peer-reviewed journals. Their initial results, theories and thoughts in these publications have been preserved in the digital archives of the scientific literature, as if they have been frozen in time. I thought it would be a nice idea to go back to these papers, and […]
Harald zur Hausen’s discovery of the link between infection and cancer provides a window into what may turn out to be one of the most fascinating lines of inquiry in twenty-first century medical research: the link between microorganisms and what have been traditionally considered chronic diseases. This line of inquiry is founded on an evolutionary […]
Der späte Vormittag gehörte in Lindau den Medizinern: Zunächst erzählte Harald zur Hausen von den Zusammenhängen zwischen Infektionen und Krebs, dann legte Luc Montagnier seine Forschungsergebnisse zur Physik und Biologie der DNA vor – böse Zungen behaupteten, der Mann sei nun unter die Homöopathen gegangen. Zuletzt sprach Francoise Barré-Sinoussi über die Entdeckung von HIV und […]
The late morning in Lindau was a non-stop marathon of medical researchers – first Harald zur Hausen talked about the links between infections and cancer, then Luc Montagnier gave an insight into his research that analyzes DNA under physical as well as biological aspects – venomous tongues may have linked that talk to homeopathy. At […]
There are many reasons to get excited in anticipation of this year’s Lindau Nobel meeting that is now less than two weeks away. One aspect of the meeting I personally enjoy is the appreciation for the historical perspective of science. One recurring theme of many Nobel laureates in Medicine or Physiology during the last 50 […]
