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A cause of immunodeficiency identified

After a stroke or heart attack, the immune system of those affected is often impaired. This can lead to life-threatening infections. A team of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen University Hospital and ISAS, has now discovered a previously unknown cause for the connection between stroke, heart attack and immunodeficiency. But that's not all: the team has also identified a new treatment approach.

EfficientBioAI: New Open-Source Software Makes AI Models Lighter and Greener

Artificial intelligence has become an integral part of research. However, the better and more complex the models become, the higher their energy consumption. Researchers at ISAS and Peking University have therefore developed ready-to-use and open software that compresses existing bioimaging AI models. With the help of the new toolbox, scientists can now run their models faster and with significantly lower energy consumption.

ComplexEye & AI Enable Faster Migration Analysis of Immune Cells

How and where immune cells such as neutrophil granulocytes migrate, for instance whether they infiltrate tumours, is crucial for cancer patients. They could benefit from drugs that prevent this migration. Until now, the migration behaviour of immune cells could only be investigated using conventional video microscopy. However, researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen and ISAS have now developed the ComplexEye. With their new microscope for the high-throughput analysis of drug substances, they are now able to analyse significantly higher numbers of neutrophils for their migration behaviour.