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11 Feb 2026
Viruses are masters of sabotage, they can disable the cell’s antiviral defences and silence immune sensing systems—but this strategy can backfire. A...
10 Feb 2026
Proteasomes are the cell’s waste disposal machines, breaking down damaged or unwanted proteins to keep cellular processes running smoothly. But to...
04 Feb 2026
Sven Klumpe, joint Group Leader at the IMP and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), has received a new...
28 Jan 2026
Plasma cells are the immune system’s antibody factories, but how B cells make the switch to become plasma cells has remained unclear. By developing a...
27 Jan 2026
To keep cells running, ribosomes—the molecular machines that make proteins—must be built continuously and with high precision. Now, researchers from...
21 Jan 2026
Two protein complexes that regulate intracellular transport and lysosome positioning were long thought to exist as single, well-defined entities. New...
19 Jan 2026
As ribosomes build new proteins, folding begins while the protein emerges. By capturing a chaperone, a helper protein, bound to a ribosome,...
18 Dec 2025
Anna Obenauf, Senior Group Leader at the IMP, is awarded the EJI Ita Askonas Prize 2025 for her pioneering work uncovering how cancer evolution,...
17 Dec 2025
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has awarded Stand-Alone grants to two IMP group leaders, Joris van der Veeken and Moritz Gaidt. Their projects will...
12 Dec 2025
Our B-cells use somatic hypermutation to fine-tune their DNA code to make better antibodies — but not all DNA sites are treated equally. A new study...