Newsroom – Category: Biology & Medicine

Migration isn’t a new phenomenon, but new insights suggest that modern-day Europeans actually have at least three ancestral populations. This finding was published by Johannes Krause and prominently featured on the cover of Nature. The paleogeneticist himself is currently travellingl through time as a Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. For him, looking back millennia into the past is no problem. more

Hans Lehrach and his colleagues comprise one of the few research teams in the world to work on computer models that aim to reconstruct all processes in a cancer cell and a healthy cell at the same time. more

If proteins are to fulfil their functions in a cell, they need to be in the right place at the right time. In addition, they often join forces and form complexes made out of several thousand proteins. more

Genome, proteome, interactome – since the beginning of the 21^st century, the life sciences have been focussing on cataloguing the cell. more

Life is short, especially for the killifish, Nothobranchius furzeri: It lives for only a few months and then its time is up. During that short lifespan it passes through every phase of life from larva to venerable old fish. more

Yearbook article 2015 from the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society more

Protein deposits in the brain have long been deemed damaging and the triggers for age-related disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease. Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, explains the conditions under which these deposits, known as aggregates, can also slow down ageing processes. more

Yearbook report 2015 of Max Planck Innovation, the Max Planck Society's tech transfer office more

In the event of an impending global flu pandemic, vaccine production could quickly reach its limits, as flu vaccines are still largely produced in embryonated chicken eggs. more