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Cell Biology
Source of life
January 22, 2013
Eugene W. Myers never attended a biology course. Despite this fact, he has made a career for himself in this field, and in developing a computer program, made a major contribution to decoding the human genome. He recently was appointed as Director at the the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, and the Klaus-Tschira Chair of the Systems Biology Center in Dresden. [more]
Neurosciences
Still Scoring Touchdowns
March 20, 2012
In college they called him Stump – as in tree stump – because of his physique and his strong will. Today, former football player Samuel Young is a renowned neuroscientist. [more]
Cognitive Science . Complex Systems . Neurosciences
Robots learn human perception
February 17, 2011
Michael J. Black teaches computers to analyse data on their environment as quickly and reliably as the human brain [more]
Ecology . Microbiology
Marine passion
October 15, 2010
Nicole Dubilier from the Max Planck Institute of marine Microbiology in Bremen investigates the symbiosis between bacteria and invertebrates in the deep sea.
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Evolutionary Biology
Age touches a nerve
September 01, 2010
Philipp Khaitovich from the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai compares brain development in humans and monkeys to investigate why the different species differ with regard to their lifespan. [more]
