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01 Mar 2024

Celebration of female groundbreakers through science-art crossover at IMP

In a collaboration between artist Anya Vero, the IMP, IMBA, and GMI, an event at the IMP this week will mark International Women...
29 Feb 2024

Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship for Rupert Faraway to study mRNA selection mechanism

The EU’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions will support Rupert Faraway, joint postdoc with Clemens Plaschka (IMP) and Stefan Ameres (Max Perutz Labs), to...
09 Feb 2024

Expanding the narrative of women in science

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Officers at IMBA, IMP, and GMI discuss the...
08 Feb 2024

Next-level proteomics pipeline improves protein analysis

Proteomics studies the structure and function of proteins involved in cellular processes in great detail. However, technical limitations hamper this...
17 Jan 2024

Researchers at the Vienna BioCenter and in Ghana team up to advance diagnostics in Africa

Last April, Vienna BioCenter scientists embarked on a field trip to Ghana to help local researchers validate the innovative molecule detection...
15 Jan 2024

Prestigious EMBO Fellowships for two IMP postdocs

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support early-career researchers for up to two years. Vytaute Boreikaite, postdoc with Clemens Plaschka, and Andreea...
21 Dec 2023

Sperm's creative approach to genome packing

A team of researchers around IMP Scientific Director Jan-Michael Peters investigated DNA folding in a highly specialised cell type: sperm. Their...
15 Dec 2023

How eggs keep their messenger RNAs quiet

Human eggs can remain dormant within ovaries for decades. However, they store all the necessary machinery to launch embryonic development, including...
14 Dec 2023

Four Vienna BioCenter collaborations supported by the Austrian Science Fund

Three Special Research Programs (SFB, for “Spezialforschungsbereich”), including two “Spezialforschungsbereich”) involving IMP group leaders tackling...
12 Dec 2023

Artificial Intelligence cracks code of gene regulation

Organisms are built from thousands of different proteins, each of them encoded by a specific gene. For a cell type to acquire its unique identity,...