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FWF Emerging Fields Grants awarded to Vienna BioCenter Researchers

Three new Research Consortia including researchers from four institutions affiliated to the Vienna BioCenter have been awarded with FWF Emerging Field…

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The Perutz welcomes new group leader Danny Nedialkova

Danny Nedialkova will launch her lab at the Max Perutz Labs this April. Danny joins the Perutz from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the…

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Prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships go to Vienna BioCenter researchers

The Vienna BioCenter is home to four new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellows from the Institute of Molecular Biotechology (IMBA), the Centre…

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Borrowing plants’ recycling tricks to treat Parkinson’s disease

Newly identified autophagy receptor in liverworts found to recycle membraneless organelles – and to send Parkinson’s linked alpha-synuclein for…

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Catching viruses in the act of sabotage

Viruses are masters of sabotage, they can disable the cell’s antiviral defences and silence immune sensing systems—but this strategy can backfire. A…

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How cells import their waste disposal machine into the nucleus

Proteasomes are the cell’s waste disposal machines, breaking down damaged or unwanted proteins to keep cellular processes running smoothly. But to…

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Axolotl muscle stem cells cater to different regeneration strategies

Axolotls can regrow both limbs and tails, and scientists assumed that this was done through the same cells and strategies. By showing that muscle stem…

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New grant supports open-source software for focused ion beam microscopy

Sven Klumpe, joint Group Leader at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian…

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License to kill

Cells rely on DNA-mutating enzymes to fight viral infections, yet these same factors can threaten genomic integrity if left unchecked. In a new study…

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ERC Proof of Concept Grants awarded to Vienna BioCenter Researchers

Thomas Böttcher (CeMESS) and Nicolas Rivron (IMBA) have been awarded Proof of Concept Grants by the European Research Council. Since 2007 a total of…

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Studying immune cell fate inside the body of mice with CRISPR

Plasma cells are the immune system’s antibody factories, but how B cells make the switch to become plasma cells has remained unclear. By developing a…

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A cellular strategy for building protein-making machines

To keep cells running, ribosomes—the molecular machines that make proteins—must be built continuously and with high precision. Now, researchers from…

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