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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 IGB 23.12.2024

How marlin and sardines outsmart each other

Press Release FMP 17.12.2024

New Insights into the Mechanisms of Potassium Channels for Medicine

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Press Release IGB 29.11.2024

Shallow water areas are crucial for the nutrient balance of a lake

Press Release IGB 26.11.2024

Research in Responsibility

Press Release IZW 22.11.2024

Red squirrels adjust their diurnal activities very flexibly to humans, pets and wildlife in cities

Press Release IGB 19.11.2024

Toxic waste: cigarette butts harm the environment twice

Press Release IZW 19.11.2024

Vultures and artificial intelligence(s) as death detectors: GAIA develops a high-tech approach for wildlife re

Press Release FVB 28.10.2024

Basic research at the highest level

Press Release IKZ 25.10.2024

Future of power electronics: BMBF funds “All-GO-HEMT” project to develop highly efficient β-gallium oxide heterostructures with around 2 million euros

Press Release IGB 24.10.2024

Fast prey: Even non-attacking predatory fish benefit from group hunting at high speed

Press Release FVB 17.10.2024

Forschungsverbund Berlin signs Charta der Vielfalt

Press Release MBI 11.10.2024

Complex research explained understandable

Press Release FMP 24.09.2024

From Molecule to Disease: PIPs Project of the Leibniz Cooperative Excellence Launched

Press Release IKZ 20.09.2024

IKZ publishes Status Analysis on Science & Technology of strategic crystals in the EU

Press Release IZW 16.09.2024

The ethics of biobanking for conservation: BioRescue adjusts ethical assessment tool for the use of genome research banks

Press Release IGB 13.09.2024

Species conservation: First sturgeon offspring since 2015 released into the Elbe River

Press Release IGB 06.09.2024

A chemical cocktail of micropollutants amplified the effect of algal toxins causing mass fish mortality on the River Oder in 2022

Press Release MBI 05.09.2024

Kasra Amini awarded €2.5 million of funding from the European Research Council

Press Release MBI 04.09.2024

New 'Chiral Vortex' of Light Reveals Molecular Mirror Images

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