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November 18, 2024

How To Achieve Precision in a Noisy Biological System – Scientists Explain the Regular Beating of Sperm Tails

A new study by PoL Professor Benjamin Friedrich and Dr Veikko Geyer from the Diez group at B Cube has revealed how the coordinated efforts of molecular motors can power motile cilia.

October 17, 2024

Studying Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions Using SHARK

Researchers from the group of PoL member Agnes Toth-Petroczy have developed a new algorithm to compare structurally disordered protein segments.

May 27, 2024

Tails for Proteins: How Environmental Factors Can Affect Protein Production

The research group of PoL affiliate Agnes Toth-Petroczy has published novel findings in Nature Communications exploring how temperature and nutrient depletion affect cell transcription and translation.

April 15, 2024

Michael Riedl is awarded the Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship

A prestigious Human Frontier Science Program fellowship was awarded to Michael Riedl, a postdoctoral researcher of the Brugués lab.

February 7, 2024

What regulates basal tension in epithelia? The answer is in the basement!

Novel findings published in PRX Life from the Fischer-Friedrich and Dahmann groups have uncovered a mechanism of basal tension regulation in epithelia.

February 6, 2024

Making Ends Meet: Researcher find that a protein superglue is crucial for DNA damage repair

A landmark study published in Cell, led by PoL member Alberti and including PoL group leaders Jahnel and Brugués, has revealed that PARP1 proteins form a kind of molecular superglue to hold broken DNA ends together.

February 1, 2024

Assembling the pieces for building muscles

Researchers from the Friedrich Group published a model for building the muscle structure in PRX Life.

September 27, 2023

New Research Group at PoL Investigates Collective Cell Migration in Living Tissue

September 15, 2023

Ingenious “Safety Belt” Mechanism Safeguarding Mammalian Cells

A “safety belt” mechanism that protects the structural integrity of mammalian cells was observed by the Fischer-Friedrich group.

June 22, 2023

Repelling disorder: What makes cholesterol-containing surfaces so repulsive?

Living organisms use powerful physical principles to control interactions at their surfaces. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Leipzig University and TU Dresden have now discovered why cholesterol-containing surfaces can exhibit greatly reduced attachment of proteins and bacteria. 

May 4, 2023

Alternative Fuel for String-Shaped Motors in Cells

Researchers from Dresden and Bangalore discover a unique two-component molecular motor that uses a kind of renewable chemical energy to pull vesicles toward membrane-bound organelles.

April 21, 2023

Test of strength of cells: new Heisenberg Professorship for Mechanics of Active Biomaterials at TU Dresden

February 10, 2023

From molecules to cellular structures: Jan Brugués joined the PoL

September 9, 2021

New insights into the mechanics of epithelial cells

Dresden researchers show characteristic changes in cellular mechanics for a cancer-associated transformation of epithelial cells

June 18, 2021

Interview with Dr. Marcus Jahnel – new research group leader at the BIOTEC and PoL

June 1, 2021

New Research Group Leader: Marcus Jahnel

September 2, 2020

How do tumor cells divide in the crowd?

Scientists led by Dr. Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich, group leader at the Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (PoL) and the Biotechnology Center TU Dresden (BIOTEC) studied how cancer cells are able to divide in a crowded tumor tissue and connected it to the hallmark of cancer progression and metastasis, the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT).

May 28, 2020

Twist and torque in the cellular nanocosmos: Diez group detects biophysical forces of molecular motors in 3D

December 2, 2019

New PoL Research Group Leader: Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich