The Microsymposium on small RNAs took place at the Vienna BioCenter for the 13th time addressing the exciting and emerging field of RNA biology.

Vienna, 14 May 2018 – As EMBO announced today, Kikuë Tachibana –group leader at IMBA – was elected to its membership, joining the circle of the best researchers in Europe and around the world.

On April 27th, 2018, the Houska-Award of the B&C Private Foundation, endowed with a total of 400,000 euros, was awarded for the thirteenth time. This award is the biggest private research Award in Austria and addresses cutting edge research projects,…

Before a cell divides, it duplicates each chromosome. During most of the cell cycle, the two copies of each chromosome appear as a homogenous mass of chromatin within the cell nucleus. Only when cells begin to divide, a stage termed mitosis, each…

On 24 April 2018 nobel prize laureate and IMBA SAB co-chair Eric Kandel received an honorary doctorate from the Medical University Vienna.

On April 13th IMBA openend up its foyer to the public for Austrias biggest Science Outreach Event - The Long Night of Research.

In a paper in the journal “Science”, researchers from the Vienna BioCenter combine cutting-edge technologies to decipher regulatory functions of important cancer genes. Key to this success is an innovative method called “SLAMseq”, which allows the…

Cells acquire distinct fates and functions during development. A study from IMBA reveals a new mechanism of cell fate specification involving the regulation of cell metabolism.

Two IMBA stem cell groups receive prestigious grants from the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization: Kikue Tachibana is the project lead of a prestigious HFSP program grant, Bon-Kyoung Kooa receives HFSP young investigator grant

Tumors grow indefinitely, but how cancer cells achieve immortality is unclear. The Knoblich lab discovered that asymmetric accumulation of the non-coding RNA Cherub in undifferentiated neural stem cells disrupts the localization and function of…