Aim/Introduction: Despite the spectacular success of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy (ICT)
in patients with metastatic cancer, only a limited proportion of patients benefit from ICT. …

The advancement of new immunotherapies necessitates appropriate probes to monitor the
presence and distribution of distinct immune cell populations. Considering the key role of …

Aspergillus fumigatus (Fig. 1A) is a life-threatening lung disease of acute myeloid leukemia
patients, with the diagnosis currently being reliant on invasive, slow, or nonspecific …

Signal-regulatory protein α (SIRPα) expressed by myeloid cells is of particular interest for
therapeutic strategies targeting the interaction between SIRPα and the “don’t eat me” ligand …

Diet-induced body weight gain is a growing health problem worldwide, leading to several
serious systemic diseases such as diabetes. Because it is often accompanied by a low-grade …

Aim/Introduction: Despite the spectacular success of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy (ICT)
in patients with metastatic cancer, only a limited proportion of patients benefit from ICT. …

Research has shown that aggregation of independent expert judgments significantly improves
the quality of forecasts as compared to individual expert forecasts. This “wisdom of crowds…

… Thanks to my friend Dominik Seyfried for putting up with me in the office and for the help
with German translations. I would also like to thank Sophie Stotz for her friendship, help, and …

Introduction and objectives Challenging percutaneous renal punctures to gain access to the
kidney requiring guidance by cross-sectional imaging. To test the feasibility of robotic-…

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed medical care worldwide. General surgery
has been affected in elective procedures, yet the implications for emergency surgery are …