Teams from MPI Institutes in Dresden, Dortmund, Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen have joined forces to gain the first evidence of a protein complex responsible for the transport of messenger RNA in neurons
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Max Planck Institute for Brain Research director and Brain Prize winner Erin Schuman has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Human beings are bilaterally symmetrical. As such, our brains are made of two halves called hemispheres, that communicate with each other with specialized fiber tracts running across the midline
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We are pleased to announce that Vanessa Stempel, Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, receives a research award from the Behrens-Weise Foundation
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research discuss how local translation and its spatiotemporal regulation have expanded our conceptual understanding of genetic information flow within a cell (the Central Dogma).
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The neocortex is the largest and most complex part of the brain, and has long been recognized as the ultimate storage site for memories. But how are traces of past events and experiences laid down there?
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The neuroscientists are honored for their pioneering work shedding light on the role of local protein synthesis in neuronal development and function
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