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Autophagy: the beginning of the end

Autophagy, from the Greek for ‘self-eating’, is an essential process that isolates and recycles cellular components under conditions of stress or when…

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ERC Starting Grant awarded to Clemens Plaschka of IMP

The European Research Council (ERC) has selected Clemens Plaschka's research for funding under the Horizon 2020 Excellent Science scheme.

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Cell division: cleaning the nucleus without detergents

A team of researchers, spearheaded by the Gerlich lab at IMBA, has uncovered how cells remove unwanted components from the nucleus following mitosis.…

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SCARLETRED is nominated for Austria's largest private research award

The research award is awarded annually by the B&C Private Foundation. With the Houska Prize, the B&C private foundation is committed to improving…

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IMBA takes part in newly EU-funded Research Project “HCA|Organoid”

HCA|Organoid is a new EU research project that combines single-cell profiling and organoid technology to validate organoids as faithful models of…

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3D-print of the molecular structure of calcium regulated E. histolytica α-actinin dimer. Calmodulin like domains in blue and violet, actin binding domain in red, spectrin-like repeats in green and connecting “neck” region in yellow. (c) Max Perutz Labs

Calcium causes stiff joints in ɑ-actinin

The group of Kristina Djinovic-Carugo has revealed the molecular structure of a calcium-regulated form of the protein α-actinin, and has elucidated…

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A step towards understanding how animals detect the Earth's magentic field

Many animals can "see" magnetic fields, but the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying magnetoreception are unknown. In the journal Science…

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Detective work in the cell: Scientists uncover a new RNA-modifying enzyme

Scientists led by Javier Martinez from the Max Perutz Labs, a joint venture of the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna, have…

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Startup Labs at the Vienna BioCenter open their doors 

With today's official opening of the Startup Labs Vienna, the life science location Vienna is setting new standards in the provision of infrastructure…

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CaTCH - a molecular time machine for cells

Researchers from the IMP's Obenauf-lab and collaborators have developed a tool that lets them trace millions of cells as they undergo evolutionary…

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Cancer research: Vienna BioCenter start-up breaks new ground in drug discovery

The new start-up QUANTRO Therapeutics at the Vienna BioCenter uses innovative transcriptome profiling technologies in a novel drug discovery pipeline…

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