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With new technology, researchers can look deep into the interior of cells – in 3-D
Tracking the mystery of cell division: Scientists of the IRI Life Sciences of Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of…
Launch of the Forum Erinnerungs- und Zukunftsort Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Erlangen
During National Socialism in Germany, crimes against humanity, especially medical crimes, also occurred in Erlangen. In order to commemorate the…
Dresden Excellence Award for Maik Herbig
The city of Dresden awarded Maik Herbig, former PhD student of MPL Director Jochen Guck, the Dresden Excellence Award 2020 for his doctorate. The…
Organizing genetic material into pockets
International research team identifies how the cell nucleus structures active and inactive DNA - and thus controls the development of a cell.
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When severed spinal cord grows back together again
After an injury to the spinal cord, patients often remain paralysed because damaged nerve tracts do not regrow due to the formation of scar tissue.…
New mathematical model: How dangerous bacteria form colonies
Disease-causing microbes as well as cancer cells gang together to form larger structures - and only then become dangerous to humans. Scientists at the…
