We do pioneering basic research. 500 curiosity-driven scientists from over 50 countries ask: How do cells form tissues? Our research programs span multiple scales of magnitude, from molecular assemblies to organelles, cells, tissues, organs, and organisms.
The MPI-CBG was founded with the goal of bridging scales and bringing together cell and developmental biology. For this reason, we focused heavily on studying cell biological phenomena utilizing different model systems. We can only understand how cells form tissues, our fundamental question, through a deep knowledge of cell biology.
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In order to understand the organization of life into molecules, cells, and tissues the MPI-CBG, as part of a collaboration, is bringing physics and biology together to solve biological questions. This interdisciplinary effort merges fundamental physics, theory, and experiment together to truly explore how cells form tissues, the basic research question of the institute.
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Stem cells and organoids, as a model system, allows us to push forward our research into how cells form tissues. Studying tissues using organoids and the reconstitution of complex biochemical systems allow the creation of a framework of cell and tissue organization. With organoids, human tissue biology has become accessible for study in a way that was not possible before.
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For International Women’s Day and World Organoid Research Day, AMSBIO interviewed two extraordinary women about their experiences working in science.
Bridging biochemistry and cell biology
Max Planck Director will lead one of the largest medical and scientific research centers in Europe
Hendrik Sikkema receives prestigious fellowship
First hackathon for the Open Framework for Particles and Meshes
Dresden researchers show that mechanical structures within tiny tubules that transport bile fluid could protect the whole tubular network against…
Collaborative, international research effort unveils that the key to sea turtles’ future may lie in their evolutionary history.
European Research Council funds projects for Meritxell Huch and Dora Tang
Hummingbird’s hovering flight likely evolved because of a lost gene.