The Göttingen Max Planck Institutes for Biophysical Chemistry and Experimental Medicine have merged as of January 1, 2022. With a total of 16 departments and over 25 research groups, the new MPI will be the largest institute in the Max Planck Society.
The Max Planck Society funds the Göttingen graduate program for another six years to train young scientists in the field of genome research. Doctoral students can work on research projects at the interface between experimental and computational biology. (in German).
Neurobiologists have long wondered how fatigue-free signal transmission is made possible. Researchers have now discovered an important regulatory mechanism that enables synapses of nerve cells to function reliably even over longer periods of time and during high-frequency activity.
Landscaper Ulrich Küneke explains the idea behind the BioDiversum and presents three of the measures: a renaturalized central area, the flowering meadows, and the pond.
Alpacas have special antibodies which can be reduced to nanobodies. They have the potential to replace the most-used antibodies and drastically reduce animal numbers in antibody production.