Understanding the physics of cancer, preventing metastases

Jochen Guck receives the Leopoldina Greve Prize

24-Oct-2024 - In honour of his groundbreaking insights into the movement of tumour cells, Professor Dr Jochen Guck from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen receives the 2024 Greve Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Dealing with metastases is one of the ...

Prize for excellent measurements

Call for the Helmholtz Prize 2024

19-Jul-2023 - Anyone who has conducted precision measurements within the scope of a scientific project or assignment should pay close attention: You are eligible to apply for the Helmholtz Prize. It is Europe’s most prestigious award in metrology — the science of exact measurement — and will be awarded in two ...

Researchers produce nanodiamonds capable of delivering medicinal and cosmetic remedies through the skin

Using advanced optics technology, the exact location and concentration of nanodiamonds can be monitored non-invasively, eliminating the need for a biopsy

01-Sep-2022 - The skin is one of the largest and most accessible organs in the human body, but penetrating its deep layers for medicinal and cosmetic treatments still eludes science. Although there are some remedies -- such as nicotine patches to stop smoking -- administered through the skin, this method of ...

New Max Planck Institute in Göttingen Combines Natural and Medical Sciences

Largest institute in the Max Planck Society

05-Jan-2022 - The Göttingen-based Max Planck Institutes (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry and Experimental Medicine have merged as of January 1, 2022. This will establish a new MPI, the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. It will cover a much broader spectrum of research, thus promoting ...

Surface acoustic waves orchestrate neuronal networks

07-Aug-2018 - Biophysicists from Augsburg and Santa Barbara report on the first successful outcome in the targeted dynamic positioning of nerve cells on a chip. The proven Augsburg surface acoustic wave technology now opens up new ways of understanding and influencing neuronal networks. The junior research ...

Your brain with a migraine

28-Jun-2018 - When migraine sufferers see the tell-tale squiggly lines, light flashes and blind spots of a migraine aura, they prepare for a migraine. When researchers see the brain image of an aura, they try to figure out what causes it and if there is a way to stop the start of the migraine. Now an ...

A molecular assembly method for cancer therapy and diagnostics

18-Jun-2018 - Biophysicists have developed a method for modifying the surface of micro- and nanoparticles -- tiny structures measuring between a thousandth and a millionth of a millimeter --by covering them with biological molecules. Engineered in this way, the particles can serve as both therapeutic and ...

Viral infection a matter of simple physics

Probably relevant to other cellular transport as well

07-May-2018 - The manner in which some viruses inject their DNA into bacteria or other types of cells, appears to be much simpler than scientists had previously thought. Rather than using molecular engines or complicated mechanisms, viruses let simple physics do the work for them. This is a recent finding by ...

Bacterial adhesion in vitro and in silico

How does a widespread bacterial pathogen adhere to tissues?

03-Apr-2018 - Bacterial pathogens have evolved highly effective strategies that enable them to adhere to target cells and niches in the tissues of their host organisms. As demonstrated, they even make use of relatively unfamiliar physical principles. In collaboration with scientists at the University of ...

Combining metalens with an artificial muscle

27-Feb-2018 - Inspired by the human eye, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed an adaptive metalens, that is essentially a flat, electronically controlled artificial eye. The adaptive metalens simultaneously controls for three of the major ...