Ruth Ley receives the Ernst Jung-Prize for Medicine 2018
Tübingen, May 4th, 2018. The Jung Foundation for Science and Research in Hamburg announced that the Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine 2018 will be shared by Prof. Dr. Ruth Ley, Director of the Department of Microbiome Science at the...[more]
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]
Why the World Looks Stable While We Move
Tübingen Neuroscientists investigate the interaction of visual perception and head movements with functional magnetic resonance imaging[more]
International Virtual Reality Conference “IEEE VR 2018” comes to Reutlingen, Germany
IEEE VR 2018 is hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO Stuttgart [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]
Smart Health: 2 million euros in funding for new electronic systems for intelligent medical technology
Professor Klaus Scheffler plans to develop and test new electronic systems in active implants - Innovative funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)[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]
Bernhard Schölkopf receives Leibniz Prize 2018
Germany's most prestigious research funding prize - €2.5 million each for outstanding research work[more]
The catch-up or fallback illusion
Why we accidentally slow-down people on the motorway and lose football matches[more]
From small to not so pixel-perfect large
The Algorithm EnhanceNet-PAT is OK not being perfect – but shows a better result[more]
Philipp Hennig receives prestigious ERC Starting Grant
Max Planck Research Group Leader Philipp Hennig will use the five-year funding with a total of 1.45 million Euros for his “Probabilistic Automated Numerical Analysis in Machine learning and Artificial intelligence (PANAMA)”...[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]
Amazon wants to join Cyber Valley
The technology company is supporting the research collaboration on AI initiated by the Max Planck Society[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]
Good User Interfaces for Automated Driving Continues to be Necessary
Best paper award for scientists Dr Lewis Chuang and Ms. Christiane Glatz from the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen[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]
4D Movies Capture People in Clothing, Creating Realistic Virtual Try-on
New technology "ClothCap"[more]
Dissertation award from the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Foundation goes to Danelle Seymour (copy 1)
Former Max Planck PhD student honored for her PhD thesis in genetics and genomics of plants [more]
A beacon of light for artificial intelligence
The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is celebrating the opening of its new building in Tübingen[more]
Prestigious Otto Hahn Medal for young scientist
Manuela Kieninger is awarded the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society[more]
Wei Ding awarded Best Bioinformatics e-Poster Prize
PhD student receives prize for presentation of interactive computer program analyzing bacterial genomes[more]
The pretense of movement: why do we get Cyber-sick?
Motion sickness is an ancient phenomenon, which also occurs in modern virtual reality environments. [more]
Regionale Forschungsallianz: 900.000 Euro Startkapital für Projekt zur Sicherung stabiler Erträge im Pflanzenanbau
Forscherverbund unter Federführung der Universität Hohenheim erhält Förderung aus Landesprogramm „Regionale Forschungsallianzen“ / Projektpartner: Universität Tübingen und Max-Planck-Institut für Entwicklungsbiologie Tübingen[more]
Two types of stress in the ocean
Tübingen researchers discover that many marine animals use the stress hormone noradrenaline[more]
1.2 million euros funding for new imaging technology in brain research
Professor Klaus Scheffler wants to test new methods in magnetic resonance imaging[more]
Go ahead for Cyber Valley
Science and industry form one of Europe's largest research partnerships in artificial intelligence[more]
Nikos Logothetis hält an seiner Entscheidung fest
Aufgrund immer wieder eintreffender Nachfragen möchten wir zur Forschung mit nicht-humanen Primaten am Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik in Tübingen den aktuellen Sachstand zusammenfassen.[more]
Ruth E. Ley im Interview bei Gert Scobel (3sat)
Das rätselhafte Leben in uns - TV-Sendung vom 17.11.2016[more]
The Paralympics are over - the Cybathlon starts!
CYBATHLON Championship for Athletes with Disabilities[more]
Orientation without a master plan
Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual maps[more]
Body Talk: A New Crowdshaping Technology Uses Words to Create Accurate 3D Body Models
A breakthrough in our shared understanding, perception, and description of human body shape brings new alternatives to 3D body scanning[more]
Bernhard Schölkopf has been elected member of the "Leopoldina"
Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences [more]
International Team of Scientists decodes genomic Diversity of Plants
Extensive variation revealed in 1001 genomes and epigenomes of Arabidopsis [more]
The Neanderthal amongst plants
International research consortium publishes data on the genomic diversity from over 1000 plants[more]
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