News

By reconstructing cellular signaling pathways, researchers explore how our immune system evolved and inspire potential immunotherapies more

Spotlight on malaria research at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology more

April 24th is World Day for Laboratory Animals. We are taking this day as an opportunity to publish the numbers of laboratory animals used by the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. Here you will find the number of animals per species and the stress levels of the experiments compared to previous years. In 2024, the majority of animal experiments at the Institute were carried out on mice and zebrafish for research into the infectious diseases malaria and tuberculosis. Experiments have also been carried out on rats and on the fish species Danionella cerebrum. more

27.4.1936 – 24.2.2025 more

How clawed frog species inhabit different climate zones thanks to small molecular adaptations. more

Interview with the 2024 fellows of the International Summer Internship more

Behind the scenes at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology more

Scientists Jason Hendry and Mulenga Mwenda are using their research to tackle an urgent problem in the fight against malaria, as malaria parasites that have developed resistance to current drugs are spreading across African countries. more

April 24 is World Day for Laboratory Animals. We are taking this day as an opportunity to publish the animal experiment figures of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. The majority of animal experiments at the Institute in 2023 were carried out on mice and zebrafish for research into the infectious diseases tuberculosis and typhoid fever. more

When a wave of infection reaches its peak depends, among other things, on seasonal temperature fluctuations and changes in contact rates more