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10-2025 Press Release | FMP

New developmental disorder discovered: Variations in the UNC13A gene cause neurological impairments in children

Problems speaking or walking, muscle tremors, and seizures – in a large interdisciplinary collaboration, researchers led by Noa Lipstein and Nils Brose have discovered a new developmental disorder that can be traced back to variations in the UNC13A gene.

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10-2025 Press Release | FMP

FMP-and LMU-spin-off Tubulis presents first clinical data on TUB-040 in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (PROC) at the ESMO Congress 2025

Tubulis, a company spun off from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) and LMU Munich in 2019, has announced positive early clinical data from the Phase I/IIa NAPISTAR1-01 study (NCT06303505).

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10-2025 Press Release | IGB

Non-dangerous crocodilian in danger

First IUCN Green Status assessment finds the unique gharial critically depleted

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10-2025 Press Release | IZW

Historic photo of first successful embryo transfer in rhinos wins at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 competition

Spanish photographer Jon A Juárez honoured at the Natural History Museum, London

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10-2025 Press Release | IGB

After northern Aral Sea restoration: lake physics similar to before drying up

Due to mismanagement since the 1960s, the Aral Sea has become increasingly saline and has eventually dried up by almost 90 per cent.

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10-2025 Press Release | IZW

Caught in the act: Scientists record how Europe’s largest bat catches and consumes a passerine bird mid-air

After nearly 25 years of research, an international team of scientists has finally solved a mystery: The greater noctule, Europe’s largest bat, doesn’t just eat small birds – it hunts and captures them more than a kilometre above the ground and it eats them without landing.

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Press Release IGB 10.02.2014

New large-scale aquaponics project funded by the EU – optimized food and water management

Press Release IGB 29.01.2014

Launch of the first online Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas

Press Release IZW 04.01.2014

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Press Release IGB 17.12.2013

More protection for the big ones

Press Release MBI 28.11.2013

Confinement rules electrons' race

Press Release MBI 22.11.2013

Steering electrons along chemical bonds

Press Release IKZ 14.11.2013

Crystals for tomorrow’s mobile phones

Press Release IZW 17.08.2013

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Press Release IGB 05.08.2013

Do fish feel pain?

Press Release MBI 19.07.2013

Attosecond electron dynamics in molecules

Press Release MBI 15.07.2013

A Million Times Brighter than the Sun - White Light as an Extremely Short Pulse

Press Release IZW 09.07.2013

Imaging techniques can improve management and husbandry of rhinoceroses

Press Release FMP 03.07.2013

Like an invisible conductor

Press Release FBH 07.06.2013

Energy-sources of the future: novel diode lasers for ultra-high power laser applications

Press Release MBI 23.05.2013

Hydrogen atoms under the magnifying glass

Press Release IZW 06.05.2013

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Press Release IZW 30.04.2013

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Press Release IGB 29.04.2013

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Press Release IZW 26.04.2013

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Press Release MBI 16.04.2013

Neighbors move electrons jointly – an ultrafast molecular movie on metal complexes in a crystal

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