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08 Sep 2022

Breaking down proteins: How starving cancer cells switch food sources

Cancer cells often grow in environments that are low in nutrients, and they cope with this by switching to using proteins as alternative ...
01 Sep 2022

An atlas of the salamander brain and its regenerative abilities

An international team of scientists has mapped out all cell types in the salamander forebrain. In a colossal effort, they created an atlas of the...
30 Aug 2022

Conversing with the past: how evolution shaped the human mind

A team of researchers in Vienna have reconstructed the evolutionary history of human brain functions. They combined genetic and brain network data to...
10 Aug 2022

Transcription factor PAX5 linked to antibody deficiency and brain development

An international team of scientists has discovered a functional link between the transcription factor PAX5 and both B-cell and brain development in...
27 Jul 2022

AAAS Wachtel Cancer Research Award 2022 for Anna Obenauf

Anna Obenauf’s ground-breaking research in metastasis and the emergence of drug resistance in cancer was recognised with the AAAS Martin and Rose...
14 Jul 2022

The axolotl, a new model to improve the healing of broken bones

Although bone fractures rank high amongst the most frequent traumatic injuries, treating and healing large fractures remains a medical challenge: bone...
06 Jul 2022

Johannes Zuber elected EMBO Member

IMP senior scientist Johannes Zuber is one of only 58 newly elected members of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). The rare...
21 Jun 2022

Anna Obenauf and Andrea Pauli promoted to Senior Scientists

As of October 2022, IMP junior group leaders Andrea Pauli and Anna Obenauf will become senior scientists. The decision, which follows a thorough...
09 Jun 2022

Tracking cells in the regenerating limb through space and time

In order to understand how tissues arise during embryonic development and regeneration, scientists need to find a way to follow different cell...
03 Jun 2022

BacPROTACs: antibiotics of the future

Bacterial infections cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. While bacterial epidemics are often restricted to low- and middle-income...