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Eight Max Planck Society scientists have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) in its latest funding cycle, each receiving up to €2.5 million for a period of five years to conduct their research projects. more

Discovery of the PKN protein in brown algae sheds light on the molecular basis of fertilization and species identity across the tree of life.
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Researchers discover that giant viruses can lie dormant within a multicellular host genome, reactivate on cue, and be inherited like a super-gene.
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New Study Reveals How Diet Shapes Inherited Behaviour

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Can Aztekin and his team have discovered how oxygen-sensing explains why amphibians regenerate limbs and mammals do not. more

Manuel Spitschan and Marie Luise Schreiter honored for innovative science outreach more

Romy Lorenz secures five-year grant to study the brain's frontoparietal network more

Nine Max Planck Society researchers, including four women, have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants more

The lecture series organized by the Max Planck Institutes in Tübingen will resume monthly this fall, kicking off with two presentations on Artificial Intelligence more

Jose Javier Vázquez Rodríguez is developing light-controlled genetic tools to dissect the brain more

The startup Ontic Labs is working on a training program designed to bring robots up to ChatGPT level. more

The US-based game developer is acquiring Meshcapade and will establish a presence in the Cyber Valley tech hub more

CaCTüS, the international internship program at the Max Planck Institutes for Biological Cybernetics and for Intelligent Systems and the Tübingen AI Center, has successfully concluded its fourth round.  more

Grant helps to take AI-based harvesting robot Polybot from research-phase to startup-phase more

Machine learning method could revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy more

Can Aztekin heads the new research group “Structural Regeneration” investigating the evolution and capabilities of lost limb regrowth across species. more

Connect with Leading Scientists for the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Origin, Maintenance and Evolution of Biological Noise more

Winfried Kretschmann, the Minister President of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, visited the Max Planck Institutes for Biology Tübingen and Biological Cybernetics. During his tour, he commended the outstanding basic research in the natural sciences. He was particularly impressed by the innovative research projects spanning developmental and evolutionary biology, as well as neuroscience.
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How Drosophila is revolutionising our understanding of genetics and disease more

A new technique allows large-scale assessment of de-novo mutations in multicellular organisms more