With its fascinating ability to regrow entire limbs and internal organs, the Mexican axolotl is the ideal model for studying regeneration. Scientists from the lab of Elly Tanaka at IMBA now found a…

Molecular motors package and rearrange the DNA so that the long and tangled strands are safely divided into the daughter cells. A new study describes the rulebook that defines how molecular motors…

For the first time, scientists have visualized a retrotransposon, a “jumping gene” , inside the cell of a complex organism. Advanced cryo-Electron Tomography allowed this feat at sub-nanometer…

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have discovered a potential "pause button" in the…

Once dismissed as genetic junk, ancient viruses embedded in our DNA are in fact powerful drivers of genome evolution. A new study…

IMBA's Scientific Director Elly Tanaka recently published an OpEd in Der Standard, highlighting the high level of scientific research…

Heidar Heidari Khoei, Postdoc in Nicolas Rivron’s lab at IMBA, has received an ESPRIT Fellowship by the Austrian Science Fund FWF to…

Organoids unveil new defense mechanisms against zoonotic viruses