We owe our comparatively high quality of life partly to the findings of medicine, medical technology, and pharmaceutics. Learn about some of the inventions made for the benefit of our health here!
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Fighting diseases is often a race against time. With the help of special tests, doctors in hospitals can identify the most important pneumonia…
3D and detailed
Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is a method of medical diagnostics that aims to improve the diagnosis of vascular diseases. Two Hamburg physicists…
Hope for an end to the pandemic
With its development of the mRNA vaccine, Biontech played a crucial part in stemming the COVID-19 pandemic.
Liver for life
When the liver fails, this can be life-threatening. In the 1990s, researchers in Rostock developed a special method to take over the function of a…
Progressive prosthesis
Above-the-knee amputees have a particular need for mobility, independence, and safety. An important new technology entered the market in 1997: the…
Know what works
How can the right active agents for drugs be found quickly and in a tightly focused manner? The founders of the company Evotec had an idea in the…
Setting the pace in healthcare
“Technology helps to heal” was the motto of physicist Max Schaldach. In 1963, working with electrical engineer Otto Franke, he developed the first…
A clever container
No biologist or chemist could do without them today: the Petri dish is mainly used in research for the cultivation of microorganisms and for cell…
A painless discovery
Justus von Liebig had something for pain: in the 19th century, the chemist produced chloroform for the first time. This was used as a surgical…
