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Studying the evolutionary history of proteins can reveal hidden connections and insights. In a recent study, researchers from the Sondermann group (DESY, CAU) at CSSB —in collaboration with scientists from the National Center for Biotechnology Information at NIH, USA —traced the lineage of two bacterial enzymes. Read more
Researchers at EMBL Hamburg, CSSB and collaborators at the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) have mapped how the influenza A virus rewires infected human cells in unprecedented detail. To do this, the researchers used a customised experimental workflow to directly observe how proteins interact inside intact infected cells. Read more
Nele Russwinkel from the Universität zu Lübeck will give a CSSB Seminar on Friday August 21, 2026 at 11:30. All are welcome to attend! Read more
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