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Rare Does Not Mean Insignificant
On Rare Disease Day, February 28, the spotlight turns to conditions that are individually rare but together affect many families. At Bielefeld University, research into lysosomal storage disorders is opening up new perspectives — also for Parkinson’s and dementia.
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Contactless Pulse Measurement Falters at High Heart Rates
Researchers at Bielefeld University have analyzed how reliably AI methods can detect pulse rates from simple video recordings.
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Cells Pull the Emergency Brake When Oxygen Runs Low
When cells face a lack of oxygen, they switch to energy-saving mode:
A team at Bielefeld University shows how they deliberately slow down their secretory transport pathway to do so.
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Polio Vaccination Remains Essential
A new study shows: The polio vaccine remains essential. Prof. Dr. Oliver Razum emphasizes: Eradication is unlikely, vaccination protection remains indispensable.
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Clinical Guidelines as a lever for more equitable healthcare
How can clinical guidelines be designed to enable equitable and inclusive healthcare – and at the same time promote research and innovation? Professor Dr Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and her colleagues discuss these questions in their contribution to the current special edition of the British Medical Journal.
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Robot Nao as an Attentive Explainer
How can a robot best support us linguistically in solving tasks? Researchers from TRR 318 Constructing Explainability have investigated this question.
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Making Better, More Explainable Medical Diagnoses with AI
Can artificial intelligence work side by side with doctors to help them make better diagnoses? A research team at Bielefeld University is dedicated to answering this question.
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Individualisation in Change
How do humans and animals navigate life transitions? The Individualisation Symposium 2025 explores biological, psychological, and social turning points – on March 25 at ZiF Bielefeld.
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‘We translate chemical reactions into maths’
Combined with biology and chemistry, mathematics offers new ways of modelling the microbiome and thus better understanding obesity: a key to targeted therapy.
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Bielefeld doctoral student competes in FameLab world final
Fingers crossed for Julian Neugebauer on Friday. He is competing in the world final of FameLab, the championship in explaining scientific questions in an understandable way.
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Philosophical Engagement with Biology and Medicine
In an interview, philosopher of science Alkistis Elliott-Graves describes the special features and challenges of the ZiF workshop “Philosophical engagement on biology and medicine”.
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Covid-19: migrants globally at higher risk
Study led by Bielefeld University shows 84 per cent higher risk of infection among migrants compared to the general population based on data from over 53 million people.
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DataNinja presents innovations for trustworthy AI
The Research Training Group takes stock after three years of research, during which the team of doctoral students and established scientists worked on trustworthy AI systems and their embedding.
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A showroom for the future of therapy and medical care
The OWL Medical School’s showroom features high-tech assistance systems that make work easier for nursing staff, therapists, and doctors.
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‘Our epidemiological research still reveals gaps’
Four years ago, Germany went into lockdown. Health scientist Professor Alexander Krämer on learnings from the pandemic.
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How healthcare systems withstand uncertainty
A new graduate school at Bielefeld University is dedicated to studying the effects of uncertainty on health policy and healthcare.
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Understandable insights into AI research
In a new research podcast, the researchers of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 318 give an insight into their work and explain why explainable AI is an important step into the future of AI research.
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Research for the whole of society
Londa Schiebinger has been researching the role of women and different categories of gender in science.
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The aesthetics of numbers – and the beauty of application
Professor Dr Christiane Fuchs loves mathematics. She can spend hours immersed in formulas, but she also likes to work hands-on.
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What happens when artificial intelligence engages in dialogue?
Is surgery or conservative treatment recommended for brain tumor? How AI can support with individual information.
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How robots adapt in communication
In a new study by the Universities of Bielefeld and Bremen, scientists are testing how humans can better follow the instructions of a robot.
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The hesitant robot
Can humans better follow a robot’s statements when it makes pauses in speech or produces filler sounds?
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Predicting outbreak of ALS disease with AI methods
Bielefeld bioinformatics researchers publish study in Nature Machine Intelligence. They deciphered the genotype profiles of 3,000 ALS patients.
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Earlier detection and treatment of tuberculosis
A team of international scientists led by Professor Dr Kayvan Bozorgmehr from Bielefeld has investigated whether a single screening for possible tuberculosis after arrival in the country is sufficient or whether there should be follow-up screenings and how these should be designed.
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