Newsroom – Category: Biology & Medicine

Researchers show that vocalizing in chimpanzees is influenced by social cognitive processes more

Tania Singer, director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognition and Brain Sciences, talks about mental empathy exercises, our inner judge and prospects for peaceful coexistence more

Scientists are reconstructing the relationship between modern humans and Neanderthals more

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

Plastics are accumulating in increasingly large quantities in the oceans but are difficult to replace due to the advantages they offer more

Can microorganisms help combat the vast amounts of plastic being disposed of in the sea? more

Yearbook report 2017 of Max Planck Innovation, the MPG's tech transfer office more

Interview with primate researcher Christophe Boesch who has been researching chimpanzees in the Ivory Coast for over 35 years. more

For Emmanuelle Charpentier, deciphering the functioning of an enzyme previously known only to experts was a life-changing moment more