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Nobel Laureate and former Perutz faculty member, Emmanuelle Charpentier, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna in…

The formation of euchromatin and heterochromatin divides the cell’s nucleus into regions of active and inactive genes. However, intriguingly, some…

Biochemist Georg Winter will take over the biomedical institute management of AITHYRA from April 2025. Winter was selected as the best candidate in a…

Thomas Juffmann has been promoted to Full Professor of Quantum Optics and Microscopy. Since 2018, his research group – established as a joint venture…

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina honors Elly Tanaka, IMBA's Scientific Director, with the Schleiden Medal for her groundbreaking…

Daniel Gerlich, Senior Group Leader at IMBA, receives this year’s Erwin Schrödinger Award, one of the highest awards by the Austrian Academy of…

The axolotl is a powerful model for understanding regeneration, however, studying the axolotl’s nervous system has been challenging as tools for…

Transposons, so-called jumping genes, are a threat to genomes, so plants work hard to prevent them from mobilizing and re-inserting into the genome.…

Developmental biologist Kristina Stapornwongkul, currently a postdoctoral researcher at EMBL Barcelona, will join IMBA as group leader in autumn of…

For the first time, scientists have visualized a retrotransposon, a “jumping gene” , inside the cell of a complex organism. Advanced cryo-Electron…

AITHYRA, the new Institute for AI in Biomedicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), is moving into its first premises in the Marxbox right at…