The hypothalamus is a central region of the brain that controls vital functions such as sleep, body temperature, hunger and thirst. Because the human brain is difficult to study, much knowledge about ...

An enzyme called Ubiquitin-specific peptidase 5 is a key factor in protein quality in heart muscle cells ...

Study shows human influence has led to loss of chimpanzee culture and calls for conservation strategies to include preserving ...

The stillbirth rate in Europe has been steadily improving over the last few decades, but there are some exceptions. In ...

Many of the technologies we rely on in everyday life today, such as machine learning and natural language processing, are ...

Lavender oil could help solve a problem in the energy transition. A team from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and ...

A pillar of modern cosmology is the existence of dark matter, which constitutes about 85% of all matter in the Universe. Under the influence of gravity, dark matter forms an intricate cosmic web ...

The International Max Planck Research School for Epigenetics, Biophysics and Metabolism (IMPRS-EBM) of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE) and the ...

The human brain is probably the most complex “machine” in the universe. With over 80 billion neurons and about as many glial cells, over 100 trillion synaptic connections and hundreds of thousands of ...

Testosterone is the male hormone par excellence: it contributes to the male phenotype and influences sexual development and aggressive behavior, among other things. In the animal kingdom, we usually ...

The Toth-Petroczy lab is an interdisciplinary research group at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) and Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD) that studies ...

“This study highlights the significance of incorporating larger and more diverse simulation sets in the investigation of the supermassive black hole," explains Christian M. Fromm, member of the EHT ...