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Squids, octopus, and cuttlefish have evolved the largest nervous systems amongst invertebrates alongside many adaptations to their local habitats. An...
Healthy cells package their DNA with the help of proteins that fold it into loops. Scientists from the lab of Jan-Michael Peters discovered that the...
In an international collaboration between the labs of Andrea Pauli at the IMP and Masahito Ikawa at Osaka University, scientists show that the sperm...
The cancer biologist Joan Massagué, director of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, US), will give a Birnstiel Lecture on 28 April...
Austria’s new Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research, Martin Polaschek, visited the Vienna BioCenter on 24 March 2022. Stops at the IMP,...
The biochemist John Diffley of the Francis Crick Institute (London, UK) will give a Birnstiel Lecture on 30 March 2022. The Birnstiel Lectures are the...
Fertilisation marks the beginning of life of any sexually reproducing organism. However, the molecular machinery and biophysical mechanisms underlying...
The IMP has condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Due to this war, Europe is experiencing the fastest growing refugee crisis since the Second World...