Mark N. Patterson, Ph.D., director of publishing at the Public Library of Science (PLoS), has been named managing executive editor of a new open-access research journal that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust are launching next year. [more]

With the appointment of Axel Boersch-Supan, the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law has acquired a new research focus and a new name [more]

Randy Schekman, a distinguished cell biologist and the 14^th editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has been named the first editor of a new journal that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust aim to launch next year. [more]

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Life is chemical fluctuation – this is the view that shaped the research of the Munich-born biochemist Feodor Lynen, who would have celebrated his 100^th birthday this year [more]

Max Planck Society establishes highly innovative research facility for "Intelligent Systems" in Baden-Württemberg [more]