Tobias Erb receives the Leibniz Award 2024

Innovative, interdisciplinary research approach opens up new possibilities for developing technologies to address the global climate crisis

11-Dec-2023 - Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Professor at the University of Marburg, has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Leibniz Prize is the most important research award in Germany and ...

The pyrenoid is a carbon-fixing liquid droplet

26-Sep-2017 - Plants and algae use the enzyme Rubisco to fix carbon dioxide, removing it from the atmosphere and converting it into biomass. However, Rubisco performs this reaction slowly and can also have unwanted reactions with oxygen. Algae have figured out a clever way to increase the efficiency of carbon ...

With scissors and string  

Chromosome segregation in meiosis

17-Jan-2017 - Once together, never apart – isn’t that how the saying goes? Not so in meiosis, the special type of cell division in which gametes, sperm and egg cells are formed. At the start of meiosis the ring-shaped protein complex, referred to as cohesin, is the string that ties the chromosome strands ...

Cooperation in diabetes research

Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry and GlaxoSmithKline in collaboration on type II diabetes

21-Oct-2010 - The Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Martinsried and pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline GmbH & Co. KG (GSK) have signed a research agreement on the development of new drugs for the treatment of type II diabetes. The cooperation agreement, negotiated with the help of technology ...

Protein highways keep tissues organize

21-Oct-2010 - Precise regulation of tissue architecture is critical for organ function. Single cells build up a tissue by communicating with their environment and with other cells, thereby receiving instructions on whether to divide, change shape or migrate. An interdisciplinary group of researchers from ...

Max Planck Innovation awards license for actin marker LifeAct

Max Planck Innovation and ibidi sign license agreement for cytoskeleton research

28-Jul-2010 - Max Planck Innovation GmbH, the technology transfer organization of the Max Planck Society, has awarded an exclusive license for LifeAct to ibidi GmbH, a provider of cell analysis products, located in Martinsried near Munich. The novel peptide allows for actin, an important protein, to be made ...

Scientists develop new method to identify glycosylated proteins

02-Jun-2010 - Various processes in our body are controlled by subsequent changes of proteins. Therefore, the identification of such modifications is essential for the further exploration of our organism. Now, scientists of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, have made a crucial ...

Chaperones for climate protection

The protein Rubisco locks up carbon dioxide

15-Jan-2010 - The World Climate Conference recently took place. Reports about carbon dioxide levels, rising temperatures and melting glaciers appear daily. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry and the Gene Center of Ludwig Maximilians University Munich have now succeeded in rebuilding ...

A Tumour Suppressor in Mice and Men

Researchers in Munich discover a cellular mechanism that can protect against tumours

31-May-2006 - When protective mechanisms in cells fail, certain genes can cause tumours - and cancer. One of these oncogenes is Bcl-3, which can lead to leukaemia, among other diseases. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, working with colleagues at the Ludwig ...

OncoMethylome Sciences Licenses Technology from the Max-Planck-Institute for Detecting Novel Methylated Genes

19-May-2005 - OncoMethylome Sciences and the Max Planck Society announced that OncoMethylome Sciences has been granted an exclusive license to intellectual property developed by the Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry involving the silencing of several tumor-suppressor genes by DNA methylation ...