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Researchers at the Vienna BioCenter and in Ghana team up to advance diagnostics in Africa

Last April, Vienna BioCenter scientists embarked on a field trip to Ghana to help local researchers validate the innovative molecule detection…

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Funding for two interdisciplinary projects to ‘understand biology with artificial intelligence’

In their recent call ‘Understanding biology with Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning’ the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) approved two…

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Prestigious EMBO Fellowships for two IMP postdocs

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support early-career researchers for up to two years. Vytaute Boreikaite, postdoc with Clemens Plaschka, and Andreea…

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Valneva Vaccinates First Participant in Pediatric Trial of Single-Shot Chikungunya Vaccine

Valneva announced that the first participant has been vaccinated in the Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the safety and Immunogenicity in children of…

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Elena Ritschard (Faculty of Life Sciences) wins Award of Excellence from the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research

The Award of Excellence has honoured the 40 best dissertations of the previous academic year since 2008. Nominations are made by the universities and…

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Sperm's creative approach to genome packing

A team of researchers around IMP Scientific Director Jan-Michael Peters investigated DNA folding in a highly specialized cell type: sperm. Their…

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Eveliqure initiates clinical safety and immunogenicity trials of its vaccine candidate against Shigellosis and ETEC in endemic populations in Bangladesh

Eveliqure Biotechnologies has announced the initiation of a Phase 1b clinical trial with ShigETEC, its vaccine candidate against shigellosis and…

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What does cooking have to do with science? - Interview with new group leader Pim Huis in 't Veld

Pim Huis in ‘t Veld was born in the Netherlands and studied Molecular Life Sciences at the University of Nijmegen. He then obtained a Ph.D. in…

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Prolongation of three Special Research Programs

The Special Research Program (SFB) in ‘Targeted Protein Degradation’, led by Perutz group leader Sascha Martens, was extended by the Austrian Science…

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How eggs keep their messenger RNAs quiet

Human eggs can remain dormant within ovaries for decades. However, they store all the necessary machinery to launch embryonic development, including…

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Decoding genome instability: New doc.funds initiative at the Perutz

Funding of €2 million from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has been allocated to a collaborative doc.funds initiative coordinated by Perutz group…

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Artificial Intelligence cracks code of gene regulation

Organisms are built from thousands of different proteins, each of them encoded by a specific gene. For a cell type to acquire its unique identity,…

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