June 11, 2013
1. Max Planck Health day
How to avoid back hurts? How to recognize a beginning burnout? And how can I eat healthy even being on a rush? On these and many other questions, the 1. Max...
Press Releases
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May 03, 2013
New mechanism discovered in meiosis
Inactivated, but still active– how modification of an enzyme governs critical processes in sexual reproduction. The Research Group headed by molecular...
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April 04, 2013
Protein maintains order in the nucleus
Two metres of DNA are packed into the cell nucleus, presumably based on a strictly defined arrangement. Researchers working with biologist Patrick Heun from...
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November 21, 2012
Thomas Boehm has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council
Dr Thomas Boehm, Director of the Department of Developmental Immunology at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, has been...
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October 30, 2012
The proteins came in two by two
Protein pairing essential for male fruit fly survivalFemale fruit flies have two copies of the X chromosome, while males – whose other sex chromosome is a Y –...
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September 28, 2012
Making and breaking heterochromatin
To fit the two-meter long DNA molecule into a cell nucleus that is only a few thousandths of a millimetre in size, long sections of the DNA must be strongly...
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September 18, 2012
Deutschland startet das BMBF geförderte Epigenom Programm DEEP
Am 1. September begann eine neue Ära der Genomforschung in Deutschland. 21 Forschergruppen aus ganz Deutschland - darunter auch das Max-Planck-Institut für...
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July 23, 2012
Dosage compensation in male flies: Balance between sexes
Fruit flies make up for the imbalance in the number of X chromosomes between the sexes at the start of transcription The sex of many organisms is determined...
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June 01, 2012
A unified phylogeny-based nomenclature for histone variants
The lack of a consistent naming convention for histone variants has led to much confusion for histone researchers in recent years, at a time when genome...
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October 26, 2011
Max-Planck scientists aid research that leads to Nobel Prize
The 2011 Nobel Prise was awarded to Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann for discovering receptor proteins that can recognize pathogenic microorganisms and...
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July 05, 2011
Kinetochores prefer the “silent” DNA sections of the chromosome
The protein complex responsible for the distribution of chromosomes during cell division is assembled in the transition regions between heterochromatin and...
