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Our 10th Leibniz Plant Biochemistry Symposium will take place on May 7 and 8 at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development and Transition Economies (IAMO). This year's theme will be new methods…

Around 300,000 guests visited this year's Berlin International Green Week, which took place from January 17-26. Arianne Schnabel was one of the 1,400 exhibitors who presented their products, projects…

At the end of 2024, the NMR lab at the IPB was upgraded with the installation of a new Bruker AVANCE NEO spectrometer. This state-of-the-art system features an 16.4T (700MHz) Ascend magnet and…

The IPB is automating its administrative processes. Our Administrative Director Peter Zuber and the Institute's Manager for Digital Transformation have successfully applied for funding from…

The 16th United Nations World Conference on Nature (COP16) took place from October 21 to November 1, 2024 in Cali, Colombia. Around 23,000 delegates from 196 countries came together for this event,…

In a joint recruitment between the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in the Faculty of Natural Sciences I – Biosciences and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) the…

Selective cancer drugs in the pipeline.

Peptide-drug conjugates (PDCs) are increasingly becoming the focus of cancer research, as they enable the targeted release of anticancer agents in tumor…

Synthetic compounds increase the effect of chemotherapeutics on colon cancer cells.

Due to the rapid cell division rate of tumors, the surrounding tissue is often insufficiently supplied with blood…

Plant metabolite inhibits biofilm formation of bacteria.

Methylerythritol cyclodiphosphate (MEcPP) is an intermediate of the conserved methylerythritol phosphate pathway (MEP), which leads to the…

Omics insights into plant resilience to light stress.

Intense light conditions stress the plant as they increase the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cells, which damage molecules…