Genes

15. January 2025

Individualised diagnostics, therapy and prevention

Why medicine is becoming more and more personalised

No two people are the same. It is therefore no surprise that patients with comparable symptoms may respond differently to the same treatment. The aim of personalised medicine is to increasingly tailor treatments to patients' needs. Rudolphina delves into this topic together with Barbara Prainsack, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Vice President of the Austrian platform for personalised medicine.

12. December 2024

Guest article by

Jörg Menche

Rudolphina Experts: Health equity and artificial intelligence

Is health a matter of negotiation?

In this expert article, Jörg Menche from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine at the University of Vienna sheds light on the challenges and opportunities in dealing with rare diseases. He explains how his research also provides new insights into more common diseases, and shows the role of technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality in making health fairer.

7. October 2022

Guest article by

Tom Higham

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022

Svante Pääbo: The power of ancient genomics and archaeology

University of Vienna archaeologist Tom Higham congratulates his colleague with whom he has been working together on many projects over the years. He explains Svante Pääbo's key achievements and what the Nobel Prize means for the people working in the field.

13. June 2022

Presenting... Anthropologist Victoria Oberreiter

The ancient DNA under our feet

Traces of human life are not only found in fossils but also in sediments. In the video, doctoral candidate Victoria Oberreiter explains how she develops new methods to retrieve ancient DNA from "dirt" to get a better insight into our past.

5. May 2022

MEET THE SCIENTISTS

Katerina Douka and Tom Higham about their "love for human origins"

The archaeologists Katerina Douka and Tom Higham examine ancient fragments and bones to better understand how humans evolved. In two videos, the radiocarbon dating experts explain their research – and why fun is an important part of it.

4. May 2022

Archaeological Science as Game-Changer

What ancient genes tell us about who we are

Using the latest scientific methods, Tom Higham and Katerina Douka from the University of Vienna want to solve a great mystery of human evolution: Why are we the only humans left?