It involves historians, social scientists and demographers. However, modern medicine is still faced with a lack of donor tissue and donor organs. The researchers want to examine fundamental aspects of the biology of stem cells to create a basis for making use of the potential stem cells offer regarding their therapeutic application in medicine. A work group on ethical issues is to back up the programme. In order to ensure optimum growth and perfect development, plants have to transport a wide variety of substances, including sugar, amino acids, hormones and water, over long distances and distribute them among their individual cells.
Transport is catalysed by protein molecules in the cell membranes.
The priority programme The Role of Dynamics and Regulation of Membrane Transport in Plants in Forming Characteristics of Cells and Organs looks at the distribution of these proteins and their control among various types of cell. Advanced organisms are born with biological structures that are responsible for spotting pathogenes at an early stage. In the priority programme Innate Immunity, researchers study the cellular and molecular mechanisms of innate immune defence. The researchers involved in the project hope that its results will yield new approaches in the treatment of infectious diseases or the therapy of tumours. This is, for example, required in cell division if the process is to lead to a complete development of an organism, and it also enables nerve cells to transmit signals correctly.