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Researching rare diseases

Today is the „Tag der seltenen Erkrankungen“, the day of rare diseases. Each year, this special day draws attention to the fact that according to the German Federal Ministry of Health, four million people suffer from a rare disease in Germany only. A disease is defined as rare, when it affects less than five out of 10,000 people. There are up to 8,000 rare diseases worldwide, showing varying symptoms and very often appearing shortly after birth. Most rare diseases appear or develop throughout the persons entire life, very often they are life-threatening. Scientists of Universität Hamburg are involved in researching the sources.

Prof. Henning Tidow analyzes a protein involved in juvenile dementia

Prof. Dr. Henning Tidow from the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology / the cluster of excellence “The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging” (CUI) is one of them. His project “Structure and function of the CLN3 protein” aims at analyzing the protein which – when damaged – leads to juvenile dementia.

Read more in German: http://www.cui-archiv.uni-hamburg.de/2018/02/den-ursachen-seltener-erkrankungen-auf-der-spur/

Further information and contacts: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/forschung/2018-02-28-seltene-erkrankungen.html