NATURE Seeking of food is a crucial survival instinct. However, until recently, little was known about how brain regulates this behavior. Scientists…

NATURE AND NATURE COMMUNICATIONS The protein α-synuclein plays an important role in Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Although a…

NATURE Tiny deviations in the body's cells can sometimes have severe consequences. Researchers from Berlin have discovered why cells from patients…

EMBO JOURNAL How does a cytostatic like cisplatin or carboplatin actually get into the cell? Scientists at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular…

PNAS AND SCIENCE ADVANCES For a long time, bacteria were considered to be primitive structures, and it was not until the most modern of imaging…

NEURON AND NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Protein AP180 plays a subtle role in neurotransmission. It ensures the efficient recycling of a synaptic vesicle…

PNAS Scientists from Berlin have invented a whole new class of active substances: the "proteomimetics" mimic certain structural motifs of large…