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BBC, 10/08/2024
Microglia are the brain’s resident immune cells. Their job is to patrol the brain’s blood vessels looking for invading pathogens to gobble up. But what happens when they go rogue? In a 2021 study, Paolo d’Errico, a neuroscientist at the University of Freiburg, even found that microglia can contribute to the spread of Alzheimer’s disease by transporting the toxic amyloid plaques around the brain.
Bloomberg, 08/12/2024
Andreas Matzarakis, Professor of Biometeorology and Environmental Meteorology, believes that there is no point in treating heatwaves like hurricanes unless measures are taken to better communicate the danger posed by extreme heat.
The Jerusalem Post, 08/04/2024
Physiotherapy with socially assistive robots could improve rehabilitation. The findings by Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, and others were published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.
444 professors
31 junior professors
21 tenure track professors
… work at the University of Freiburg (status 2023)
