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The Controversial Release of Suicide Mosquitoes

Spiegel online / International edition (1.2.2012): A British biotech lab has released huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever. But locals, some say, were not adequately informed of the experiment - and now a debate has erupted over the potential dangers to humans. [more]

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Focus: Migrants (Volume 4/2011): Every fifth German has a migration background - that corresponds to more than 16 million people. Not only politicians and authorities must respond to this demographic trend. Researchers also increasingly turn their attention to the subject of migration. In this issue of our research magazine, Max Planck scientists examine the topic from three different angles. [more]

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Sharper than theory allows

The STED (Stimulated Emission Depletion) microscopy, which the physicist Stefan Hell from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen invented and developed to application readiness, allows scientists to gain insights into the nano world far beyond this limit. Biologists and physiologists in particular value this breakthrough, because living cells or tissue can only be observed using optical microscopes.

Max Planck scientists very pleased about ERC grants
January 30, 2012
With seven Advanced Grants, the MPG is Germany’s top recipient of EU funding. In response to its fourth call for applications, the ERC conferred a total of 294 of these lucrative research awards, of which 52 went to German universities and research institutions. [more]
 
Anti-malaria drug synthesised with the help of oxygen and light
January 17, 2012
In future it should be possible to produce the best anti-malaria drug, artemisinin, more economically and in sufficient volumes for all patients. [more]
 
Tracking human evolutionary history
January 11, 2012
A new element is being brought in to the already well-developed and multifaceted cooperation between the Max Planck Society and Israel's Weizmann Institute: on 11 January 2012, Max Planck President Peter Gruss and Weizmann President Daniel Zajfman signed the foundation treaty for the new Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology in Rehovot. [more]
 
The mysterious Denisova hominids
December 21, 2011
Bence Viola from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig discovered the tooth fragments together with Russian colleagues in the Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains. Initially, he thought the inconspicuous-looking object was the molar of a cave bear. But when the remaining fragments of the tooth turned up, it became obvious that the researchers had found the tooth of a hominid. [more]
 
 
 
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