The “Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators” is awarded annually through a partnership of Eppendorf and the scientific journal Nature to recognize outstanding achievements in biomedical research and methods in molecular biology. This highly…

IMBA Group Leader Oliver Bell has been awarded a Career Development Award (CDA) for his project “Investigating the dynamics and memory of polycomb-mediated gene repression in vivo” by the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization…

Mutations in the genes of a protein complex called SWI/SNF are one of the most common causes of cancer in humans. But until now it wasn't clear how these changes in the genome lead to tumors. Using a fruit fly as a model organism, Jürgen Knoblich and…

Scientists reveal a novel mechanism that controls tumor metastases.

IMBA Scientists reveal mechanism and dynamics of pathogen invasion of cells by 3D electron miocroscopy.

IMBA scientist Fumiyo Ikeda receives a two million Euro Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Her project "Regulation and Function of ubiquitination by HOIP" will be funded over a period of five years.

“Science” magazine lists research on early human brain development by Madeline Lancaster and Jürgen Knoblich among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs in 2013.

Bacteria have an efficient infection mechanism. They infect their host cells using syringe-like extensions, formed in large numbers during an attack. Based on the knowledge of the exact blueprint of these structures, researchers in Vienna have now…

Most trisomic pregnancies arise as a consequence of chromosome missegregation in egg precursor cells called oocytes. Austrian researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) aim to understand…

Daniel Gerlich and Amalie Dick from the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) developed a laser microsurgery approach in live cells to study the signalling of a checkpoint that ensures correct…