Press Releases of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
One step closer to reality
The software "PyFRAP" is an accurate and reliable tool for the analysis of molecular movement, employing numerical simulations rather than simplified assumptions [more]
Detlef Weigel will receive the Barbara McClintock Prize 2019
Announcement of the Barbara McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies awardee 2019 [more]
Breaking species barriers by “breeding” mice in a dish
Breakthrough in stem cell techniques allows genetic studies between mouse species without crosses[more]
Scientists create ‘Evolutionwatch’ for plants
Tübingen, 23rdth February 2018. Scientists are giving plant collections from museums a new lease of life with ‘Evolutionwatch’ – a new way to study evolution in action. Using a hitchhiking weed, scientists from...[more]
Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change
Tübingen, 18th December 2017. In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can adapt to climate change, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology...[more]
Patrick Müller receives the „EMBO Young Investigator” Award
Tübingen, 25th October 2017. Patrick Müller, group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, is one of the “EMBO Young Investigators” 2017. EMBO announces today the selection of 28 young scientists as EMBO Young Investigators....[more]
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - passion, creativity and verve for biological research
Nobel laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard turns 75 today[more]
"Türen auf für die Maus"!
Am gestrigen Tag der Deutschen Einheit hieß es am Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie "Türen auf für die Maus"! [more]
Neglected diseases: Dogs are a possible source of for zoonotic strongyloidiasis
People and their dogs - a relationship with side effects[more]
Precision breeding needed to adapt corn to climate change, ancient samples show
It took 2000 years to successfully grow maize in northern climates, according to new findings in Science. We don’t have that long to adapt today’s crops to climate change.[more]