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01-2026 Press Release | IZW

Clear effects, complex implications: meta-study reveals mechanisms of animals’ adaptations to cope with climate change

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife.

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01-2026 Press Release | IZW

Caught in the act: Scientists observe infections by cancer-causing retroviruses in Koalas as they occur

An international team of scientists analysed the ongoing colonization by two retroviruses of the germline of koalas and resulting deaths from cancer in multi-generational pedigrees of over 100 koalas in US and European Zoos. In the journal “Nature Communications”, they describe the genome sequencing of the koalas and their analysis of integration in or near genes involved in cancer, new germline integrations within a single generation, and deaths from cancer caused by the retroviral integration. Based on this work, the scientists calculated genetic risk scores (GRS) that…

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IGB-Forscherin Dr. Stella Berger auf dem Seelabor des IGB im Stechlinsee
12-2025 Press Release | IGB

No calm after the storm

Summer storms increase the risk of cyanobacterial blooms in clear water lakes.

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CLDN14 verdrängt CLDN16 in Tight Junctions der Nierentubuli
12-2025 Press Release | FMP

Network of tight junctions: How the kidney controls calcium flow

Researchers have identified a previously unknown mechanism by which the kidney precisely controls calcium excretion.

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DREF Program 2025
12-2025 Press Release | PDI

PDI Partners in NSF–DFG DMREF Initiative on Atoms-to-Device Materials Design

The Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) is pleased to announce its participation in a newly funded project titled “Atoms-to-Device Closed-Loop Predictive Design of Electro-Optic Materials for Quantum Photonic Circuits.”

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Expermimenteller Aufbau für die Beobachtung von C60-Molekülen
12-2025 Press Release | MBI

Observing laser induced shape changes of C₆₀ by time resolved X-ray imaging

A prototype molecule, the famous football-shaped “Buckminsterfullerene” C₆₀ was studied both experimentally and theoretically by groups from the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin, in the framework of a larger collaboration coordinated by physicists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS) in Dresden, with involvement from other institutions from Switzerland, USA and Japan.

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Press Release IZW 23.03.2022

Pluripotent stem cells from the northern white rhinoceros: BioRescue moves one step closer to artificial egg cells

Press Release IGB 22.03.2022

Why ponds and kettle holes are also worth protecting

Press Release IZW 16.03.2022

New research shows that birds of prey populations across Europe are suppressed by lead poisoning from hunting ammunition

Press Release IZW 15.03.2022

How sperm protect their membranes from oxidation: a comparison of species

Press Release FMP 10.03.2022

Exploring the effect of isotopes in Chemical Biology – Johannes Broichhagen receives 1.5 Million Euros of Funding from the European Research Council

Press Release FMP 07.03.2022

Class II PI3K lipid kinase: Structure of novel drug target resolved

News FVB 04.03.2022

On the appeal of Russian scientists and science journalists

Interview IGB 03.03.2022

Is biodiversity being viewed in the right light?

Press Release FMP 01.03.2022

New insights: how potassium and sodium are conducted through ion channels

News FVB 26.02.2022

"Our thoughts and solidarity are with the people on the ground"

Press Release IGB 21.02.2022

Birch trees remove microplastics from the soil

Press Release IZW 21.02.2022

Wildlife camera trap surveys provide new insights into the occurrence of two threatened Annamite endemics in Viet Nam and Laos

Press Release IGB 18.02.2022

We are looking at you, fish!

Press Release IZW 17.02.2022

BioRescue creates two new embryos in race against time to prevent the extinction of the northern white rhinoceros

Press Release IGB 15.02.2022

Forgotten species go extinct twice

Press Release IZW 14.02.2022

Progress in reproductive biology - new insights into the binding behaviour of the porcine sperm protein AWN

Interview IGB 11.02.2022

Collective rule-breaking

Press Release FMP 03.02.2022

Solving puzzles of the chloride ion channel ASOR

Interview FVB 02.02.2022

“We can be a role model”

Press Release IGB 31.01.2022

One in five fish dies from passing hydroelectric turbines

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