News 2022

Highest alumni honor of the California Institute of Technology for MPI-CBG Director Emeritus 

With FLUCS, the development of embryos can be controlled

Researchers from Dresden and Bangalore discover a unique two-component molecular motor that uses a kind of renewable chemical energy to pull vesicles toward membrane-bound organelles.

Max Planck and Harvard research teams develop DeMAG, a new method shared as an open-source web server (demag.org) to help interpret mutations in disease genes and improve clinical decision-making.

Dresden researchers develop CrowDsourcing COndensate Database and Encyclopedia (CD-CODE), a community-editable platform and database of biomolecular condensates.

Researchers from Dresden investigated how four Drosophila genes, known to control eye color, are essential for health of retinal tissue.

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 elevated pressure.

Collaborative, international research effort unveils that the key to sea turtles’ future may lie in their evolutionary history.

Hummingbird’s hovering flight likely evolved because of a lost gene.