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This year’s Schering Young Investigator Award has been awarded to Can Aztekin, a Max-Planck-Research Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society in Tübingen, to recognize his significant work in the field of regenerative biology.

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The Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, has elected Susana Coelho, Director of the Department for Algal Development and Evolution, as a member in recognition to her outstanding contributions to the fields of Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. 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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The Royal Society has elected Ruth Ley, Director of the Department of Microbiome Science at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, as a Fellow in recognition of her achievements in the field of microbiome science. Fellows are elected for life through a peer review process on the basis of their excellence in science.

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After more than five years at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, postdoctoral researcher Dr. Kelsey Huus is leaving the institute to take up a new position as Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada. more

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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A new study reveals how diet shapes inherited behaviour.

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