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Planet found in habitable zone around nearest star
Pale Red Dot campaign reveals Earth-mass world in orbit around Proxima Centauri.

The yoga poses of ion channels
International team decodes patterns of ion channel activity using novel stochastic approach.

Flies as a possible vector for the Treponema bacterium
Scientists at the German Primate Center describe a new transmission path of a tropical disease

From vision to hand action
Neuroscientists at the German Primate Center decipher how our brain controls grasping movements

Opportunists with a home advantage
Scientists from the German Primate Center revealed factors that determine the behavior of Verreaux's sifakas in intergroup...

Multiple sclerosis: antibodies directed against the body’s own structures can initiate the inflammation at the core of the disease
(umg) Two research groups, one from the Institute of Neuroimmunology / Insti-tute for Multiple Sclerosis Research (IMSF)...

The ecological role of fruit aroma
Fruit odor may have evolved to advertise ripeness to seed-dispersing primates

Multiple sclerosis: how do immune cells enter the cerebrospinal fluid and what is their function there?
Scientists at the University Medical Center Göttingen find out that immune cells move back and forth between the...

"An energetic diplomat"
Göttingen Campus congratulates Reinhard Jahn, director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, for being...

Scripta Qumranica Electronica - Dead Sea Scrolls Aggregated Database and Virtual Research Environment
Collaboration of a German-Israeli research project with the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Israel...

The impact of epigenetics on brain development
Scientists of CNMPB, MPIbpc and DZNE in Göttingen describe a molecular mechanism that controls global epigenetic programs...

Exhibition: DPZ presents insights into the brain
An exhibition at the German Primate Center presents fascinating images of the brain