Der Klaus J. Jacobs Forschungspreis wird 2011 an Michael Tomasello vom Leipziger Max‐Planck‐Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie verliehen. Die Auszeichnung, die mit einer Million Schweizer Franken (rund 815 000 Euro) dotiert ist, würdigt außergewöhnliche Forschungsleistungen im Bereich der Kinder- und Jugendentwicklung.
Mit ihrer Investition von 200 Millionen Euro in die Jacobs University Bremen (Link
In about half of all prostate tumours, there are two genetic areas that are fused with one another. When this is not the case, the exact way cancer cells originate in prostate tumours was not clear until now. An international team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, headed by Michal-Ruth Schweiger, were able to show that the genesis of this fusion-negative prostate cancer has epigenetic causes: methyl groups are distributed differently over the DNA in the cancer cells than in healthy cells. These findings may contribute to facilitate treatment of prostate tumours in future. The aberrant DNA methylations can also be used as a potential biomarker for identifying prostate cancer.
Further functional analyses link EZH2 to the aberrant DNA methylations in fusion
Although Gabriele Alex and Vibha Joshi belong to different departments at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, both scientists are studying the wide range of healing methods used and traditions followed in Indian society. Here they show from different perspectives how the supposed contradictions aren’t really all that incompatible in practice.
Joshi believes that this close link between Christian belief and healing has to do
Eleni Dovrou, postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, about the early female climate science pioneer Eunice Newton Foote.
Planck Institute for Chemistry, about Eunice Newton Foote, the first person to link
Max Planck researchers manage to reactivate head regeneration in a regeneration-deficient species of planarians.
Like a cable link between two computers, signalling pathways transmit information
Models for understanding brain and behavioural development
Models can be used to link data from different levels on a theoretical basis, thereby
An international group of astronomers, led by Juan Diego Soler of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have found a complex network of filamentary structures of atomic hydrogen gas that pervades the Milky Way. They made this intricate web of gas visible by applying techniques from machine vision to THOR survey data that provides the most detailed view on the distribution of atomic hydrogen in the inner Milky Way to date. The scientists analysed the filaments’ orientations relative to the Milky Way disk using statistical methods and simulations. They inferred that the structure conserved an imprint of historic dynamical processes induced by the rotation of the galactic disk and feedback from ancient supernova explosions.
The results and analysis tools from this study offer a new link between the observations
An international team of scientists sums up the current effects of aerosols on precipitation
The link between the quantity of aerosols and the energy in the atmosphere available
Interview mit dem Tierversuchsbeauftragten der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zu den neuen Zahlen der EU
Link Eine Maus in einem Max-Planck-Institut.
The Lead Discovery Center GmbH (LDC) and the South Korean drug development specialist Qurient have founded QLi5 Therapeutics GmbH, together with the LDC’s partners, the Max Planck Society (MPG) and Nobel laureate Prof. Huber, emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. Dortmund based QLi5 Therapeutics licensed novel proteasome inhibitors from LDC and its partners. QLi5 Therapeutics will advance these towards preclinical and clinical development for the treatment of cancers and inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.
track together with Qurient has been a swift and smooth endeavour, adds Dieter Link
