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New Max Planck Institute in Göttingen Combines Natural and Medical Sciences

Largest institute in the Max Planck Society

05-Jan-2022 - The Göttingen-based Max Planck Institutes (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry and Experimental Medicine have merged as of January 1, 2022. This will establish a new MPI, the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. It will cover a much broader spectrum of research, thus promoting ...

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Brain-doping produced by your own body

Researchers have uncovered the mechanism by which Epo acts in nerve cells

12-Mar-2020 - Erythropoietin, or Epo for short, is a notorious doping agent. It promotes the formation of red blood cells, leading thereby to enhanced physical performance - at least, that is what we have believed until now. However, as a growth factor, it also protects and regenerates nerve cells in the ...

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Antibodies: the body’s own antidepressants

Antibodies can be a blessing or a curse to the brain - it all depends on their concentration

25-Feb-2020 - If the immune system attacks its own body, it can often have devastating consequences: autoantibodies bind to the body’s structures, triggering functional disorders. The receptors for glutamate, a neurotransmitter, can also become the target of autoantibodies. Researchers at the Max Planck ...

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Potential therapy for incurable Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Researchers discover new treatment approach for this hereditary neurological disorder

28-Aug-2014 - Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A is the most common inherited disease affecting the peripheral nervous system. Researchers from the Department of Neurogenetics at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine and University Medical Centre Göttingen have discovered that the maturity of ...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease neurological disorders

Stress genes out of kilter

Max Planck researchers succeed in predicting risk of alcoholism

15-Aug-2011 - Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen have investigated genetic variations of the corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) system, the biological stress axis, in schizophrenia patients. This system, which consists of various signalling molecules and the ...

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