New Topic Cluster: Model Organisms

From yeast to fruit flies – our new Topic Cluster provides an overview of the most important model organisms and how they have enabled Nobel Laureates to make ground-breaking discoveries, including clippings of lectures from laureates Günter Blobel, Elizabeth Blackburn, Craig Mello, Harald zur Hausen, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.   >> Read Topic Cluster

Recycling at the cellular level: autophagy as an evolutionary self-cleaning program

Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his outstanding basic research.Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his outstanding basic research.