The switching of microbes between different subgroups in response to competition can stabilise ecological communities.
World’s largest science prize for discovering a new mechanism of cellular organization.
How can biological systems achieve specialization but retain plasticity to drive change when needed? Through an international collaboration,…
Dresden research team finds that the cell cortex, a fine network of filaments below the cell membrane, is activated in a controlled way by thousands…
The director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden received the Körber Prize in Hamburg's City Hall for the…
Ricard Alert and collaborators propose a theory to explain how the limited response of individual cells to chemotaxis influences the stability of a…
Clusters of proteins can form in solutions with concentrations that are well below the threshold for phase separation and the formation of…
Karen Soans shares her second installment of the Lonely Astro Art exhibition in the CSBD
New CSBD research published in Nature identifies somite surface tension as the missing part of the puzzle that explains the symmetrical development of…
Christina Kurzthaler establishes her new research group "Transport and flows in complex environments“ at the Biological Physics Division at MPI-PKS
