On 22 September 2026, the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) welcomed a delegation from the College of Economics and Management at Northwest A&F University (N...

The 26th Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung (Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis) will take place from 17-19 March 2027 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany.,https://www.ids-mannheim.de/en/aktuell/veranstaltungen/kolloquien/2027/agf-2027/

Immunotherapies, especially CAR T-cell therapy, have fundamentally changed cancer treatment in recent years, particularly for certain forms of leukemia and lymphoma. Yet not all tumors respond equally well, and the reasons for this remain incompletely understood. A new multicenter study by the Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy collaboration group, Innate Immune Sensing in Cancer and Transplantation, now shows that it is not only the composition of the gut microbiota that determines the success of CAR T-cell therapy, but above all its metabolic products.

The Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) has published a manual that provides a practical guide to assessing animal welfare in commercial shrimp aquaculture.

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Most primate species have a relatively large brain with a surface marked by pronounced bulges and furrows. This is not the case with common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). The brains of these small monkeys are smooth and virtually unfolded. Researchers at the German Primate Center (DPZ) -the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen have investigated, in a recent study, which cellular processes during embryonic development cause the marmoset brain to develop differently from a certain stage onward. In experiments with brain organoids, they were able to show that certain neural progenitor cells-from which neurons arise-develop differently in marmosets, both morphologically and temporally. Several processes occurring at different levels and involving various types of progenitor cells govern this phenomenon, which ultimately leads to a reduction in the size and folding of the marmoset brain. The study sheds new light on the evolutionary development of the primate brain and could help improve our understanding of developmental disorders in the human brain in the future (Science Advances). Its size and degree of folding are the defining characteristics of the brains of many primates. In particular, the walnut-like grooves and ridges of the human brain vastly increase its surface area and provide space for...

In mammals, males are usually stronger and more competitive than females. Males also show greater inequality in reproductive success – the number of offspring they produce – than females. In spotted hyenas, the opposite is true: reproductive inequality is greater in females than in males. The reason? Female spotted …

Type 2 diabetes is increasingly affecting young adults in Germany, with new evidence showing poverty, low education and first-generation migration background as factors associated with the disease. A study from the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, using data from the German National Cohort (NAKO), finds that these social disparities persist even after accounting for family history and individual lifestyle, prompting calls for a shift from purely behavioral advice to structural environment-focused prevention.

The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (GEI) has announced the call for applications for the 2028 Georg Arnhold Senior