Max Planck supports open access to research
The Max Planck Society has become a BioMed Central Institutional...Member. This move, by one of the world's premier scientific...research organisations, follows a recent call by some German...politicians for government and state funded research to be...published online and freely available.... ...The German taxpayer provides 95% of the Max Planck Society's...funding, yet the findings of research...2004 Max Planck Research Prize for Martin Vingron and Eugene W. Myers
Prof. Martin Vingron, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Germany, and Prof. Eugene W. Myers from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, are the two winners of the 2004 Max Planck Research Prize, worth 750,000 Euros each. The purpose of the international Research Prize awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society is to promot...Max Planck Research awards 2003 presented
"The Max Planck Research Awards are meaningful indicators for the future that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of science and demonstrate its effectiveness internationally", explains Prof. Rdiger Wolfrum, Vice President of the Max Planck Society. The award aims to open the door to opportunities to find the best partners in Germany and abroad for joint research projects thereby allowing the ne...Two Max Planck researchers recieve the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine 2003
THE 2003 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE encourages further projects of excellence in the prize-winners' laboratories. Wolfgang Baumeister is famous for his work on the proteasome and for further development of cryoelectron tomography, which provides three-dimensional images of intact cells at high resolution and with it new vistas of their supramolecular organization. Riitta Hari is a pioneer of measuring p...Max-Planck doctoral student discovers 'living fossils'
... ... ...For the first time in 87 years scientists have found insects which cannot be allocated to any known insect order. During an international entomologist group expedition from Germany, England, South Africa, Namibia and the USA to the Brandberg mountain in Namibia, the predatory animals were discovered: they appear to be something like a mixture between a stick insect and a preying man....Scientists have identified important genes for plant growth whose products help.to distribute an vital growth factor throughout the plant. The discovery of.these genes means that scientists will be able to design better crops and.herbicides. The scientist's findings, reported recently in Science (Vol 282,.2226-2230) and in the December 1998 issue of EMBO Journal (Vol 17, 6903-1911).are regarded.....Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for. Molecular Physiology in Dortmund and of the Max Planck. Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg (Germany) have. determined the first structure of a functional protein unit. that is involved in the development of ‘von. Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis’. This unit is a. regulator of another protein involved in the patho...Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is a 41 residue polypeptide hormone that is recognized. as an early chemical signal in the response to stress. The hormone exhibits its actions through. plasma membrane receptors which have been characterized from several sources. The. molecular interaction between these receptors and CRF is under investigation by sever...Enhancing the bodies ability to create its own natural. bypasses may soon become an alternative to baloon dilatation. or bypass surgery. As reported in the February edition of. Nature Biotechnology, scientists at the Max Planck Institute. for Physiological and Clinical Research in Bad. Nauheim/Germany have recently developed a non-invasive method. to supply the diseased heart...Max-Planck Researchers Unravel The Structure Of The Methane Forming Enzyme
Max-Planck researchers unravel the. structure of the methane forming enzyme . A team of the Max-Planck Institutes from Frankfurt and. Marburg has recently determined the structure of. methyl-coenzyme M reductase, a key enzyme of methanogenesis. that catalyzes a highly complex chemical reaction namely the. reduction of a thioether to a hydrocarbon. . Methanogenesis is only...