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An interdisciplinary research team uses DNA microbeads to control the development of cultivated tissue. more

In recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements, Joachim Spatz, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, today honored Hendrik Dietz from the Technical University of Munich with the Institute's Otto Meyerhof Medal. more

A research team has succeeded for the first time in using DNA nanotechnology to develop an important building block for artificial cell division: a ring of DNA nanotubes that could be used in artificial cell division.  more

Researchers led by Stefan Hell have succeeded in using MINSTED microscopy to visualize movements of the motor protein kinesin with spatio-temporal precision in the nanometer per millisecond range. Hell’s team has thus extended the MINSTED imaging method to precise tracking of molecular movements. more

A newly published study demonstrates that host-integrated virus genomes are able to protect their host populations from a lytic giant virus, thus assuring their survival. They recent results by the Protist Viruses Research Group were published in PNAS in March. more