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Researchers from Leipzig have discovered a biological control mechanism that occurs in most modern humans but was absent in Neanderthals. It could have helped to maintain an important vitamin in the body.

A molecular switch that could save lives

Why do people die not from the actual trigger, but from an excessive reaction of their own body? Prof. Berend Isermann from the University of Leipzig is investigating exactly this question. In medicine, this phenomenon is known as thrombo-inflammation. Isermann and his team have identified a molecular “switch” that could one day make it controllable. | more

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