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110 scientists clearly affirm their commitment to animal research: “We conduct animal experiments!”   On the occasion of the World Day for Laboratory Animals on 24 April 2025, 110 leading scientists from Germany (including MBExC members) are publicly affirming their commitment to animal research. Under the joint statement “We conduct

Congratulations to MBExC member Nadja Simeth-Crespi on her appointment as W2 Professor of Molecular Labeling Chemistry at the University of Göttingen!   Prof. Simeth-Crespi and her team’s research intersects the boundaries of bioorganic and photochemistry, with a focus on the design of smart drugs, biochemical probes and labels, as well

Göttingen research team constructs network of self-learning infomorphic neurons   Novel artificial neurons learn independently and are more strongly modeled on their biological counterparts. A team of researchers from the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) at the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for

MBExC member Dr. Thomas Frank has received €360,000 in project funding over three years from the Schram Foundation. His project “Cellular mechanisms and brain-wide circuits of chemosensory valence coding” uses zebrafish as a model organism to investigate how the brain processes sensory information, such as odors, across different levels of

Shadows and glimpses of light: structure and function of the interstitial space in the brain   MBExC member Prof. Dr. Urs Valentin Nägerl has held the University Professorship of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) since September 1, 2024 and heads the Institute of Anatomy

Dr. Shayan Hundrieser, mathematician from the University of Göttingen has been honored with the prestigious Dissertation Award by the Probability and Statistics Group of the German Mathematical Society. The award acknowledges outstanding research by promising young scientists in the field of stochastics. His dissertation, entitled “Statistical Optimal Transport and its

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences have shown, for the first time, how the genetic material of the Nipah virus replicates in infected cells. The virus can cause fatal encephalitis in humans. Using cryo-electron microscopy, the team led by

Egg cells need stamina: They are formed in a women’s body before birth and have to be on standby for decades to possibly be fertilized one day. But as they age, they accumulate more and more DNA damage. Until now, it has been unclear why the cell’s repair mechanisms do

Göttingen research team gains new insights into the sense of hearing   Hearing begins with the stretching of elastic molecular “springs” that open ion channels in the sensory hair cells of the ear. For decades, researchers have known that these gating springs must exist, but they could not find them.