Susann Meyer

22.10.2021

Lifecycle of a biological cell: cell (in centre) before mitosis (cell division) takes place. From bottom left and then clockwise: the cells become rounder and the shell thickens as the insides of the cell change - soften and fluidify. The genetic material is shared out to create two new daughter cells. (Image taken with a confocal microscope, research carried out using optical tweezers)
Photo: Sebastian Hurst

22.10.2021

‘Feeling’ the living cell’s life cycle using optical tweezers

Living cells are the basic building blocks of all organisms. We, as humans, are essentially a collection of trillions of living cells: and all these cells emerge from a single […]

21.10.2021

Neuron

21.10.2021

Munc13-1 is a Ca 2+-phospholipid-dependent vesicle priming hub that shapes synaptic short-term plasticity and enables sustained neurotransmission

Lipstein N, Chang S, Lin KH, López-Murcia FJ, Neher E, Taschenberger H, Brose N

21.10.2021

Marina Rodnina receives Albrecht-Kossel Award

On October 21, Professor Dr. Marina Rodnina, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and MBExC member, receives the Albrecht-Kossel Award of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for her […]

21.10.2021

Nat Methods

21.10.2021

Deep learning improves macromolecule identification in 3D cellular cryo-electron tomograms

Moebel E, Martinez-Sanchez A, Lamm L, Righetto RD, Wietrzynski W, Albert S, Larivière D, Fourmentin E, Pfeffer S, Ortiz J, Baumeister W, Peng T, Engel BD, Kervrann C

19.10.2021

Biomed Opt Express

19.10.2021

Label-free imaging of age-related cardiac structural changes in non-human primates using multiphoton nonlinear microscopy

Khan A, Ramos-Gomes F, Markus A, Mietsch M, Hinkel R, Alves F

14.10.2021

Circulation

14.10.2021

Loss of Mitochondrial Ca2+ Uniporter Limits Inotropic Reserve and Provides Trigger and Substrate for Arrhythmias in Barth Syndrome Cardiomyopathy

Bertero E, Nickel A, Kohlhaas M, Hohl M, Sequeira V, Brune C, Schwemmlein J, Abeßer M, Schuh K, Kutschka I, Carlein C, Münker K, Atighetchi S, Müller A, Kazakov A, Kappl R, von der Malsburg K, van der Laan M, Schiuma AF, Böhm M, Laufs U, Hoth M, Rehling P, Kuhn M, Dudek J, von der Malsburg A, Prates Roma L, Maack C