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 26 Apr 2013

Bird navigation - great balls of iron

Every year millions of birds make heroic journeys guided by the earth’s magnetic field. How they detect magnetic fields has puzzled scientists for...
18 Jan 2013

A molecular assembly line brings muscles into shape

Scientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna, Austria and at the University of Cologne, Germany have discovered the...
18 Jan 2013

IMP Scientists shed light on the “dark matter” of DNA

Scientists at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna have developed a method that reliably detects these regions and measures...
16 Jan 2013

5th International Workshop Quantum Effects in Biological Systems (QuEBS)

The counterintuitive features of quantum physics have already revolutionized our understanding of how the world behaves on the microscopic level. ...
03 Jan 2013

Beug Foundation for Metastasis Research: First call for applications now open

The Beug Foundation for Metastasis Research was initiated by the late Hartmut Beug, founding member of the IMP and Senior Scientist from 1988 until...
14 Dec 2012

A Key Gene for Brain Development

Neurobiologists at the Research institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna have discovered one of the key genes required to make a brain. ...
06 Dec 2012

Two IMP scientists join EMBO Young Investigator Programme

IMP Group Leaders Alexander Stark and David Keays have been selected into the prestigious “Young Investigator Programme” of the European Molecular...
21 Nov 2012

Karlheinz Töchterle visited the IMP

Karlheinz Töchterle, the Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research, and three executives from his office visited the IMP on November 20. The...
09 Nov 2012

VBC PhD-Award for Sebastian Krüttner

To round off this year’s PhD Symposium on BioMimetics, the VBC PhD-Awards were presented to the five winners on November 9, 2012. Among the awardees...
24 Oct 2012

VBC PhD-Syposium ‘BioMimetics’

The tenth International VBC PhD-Syposium will take place at the IMP on November 8 and 9, 2012. The meeting will be held under the title ...