# News

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© Patrick McCall

Publications
RA2
Associates and Affiliates
Brugués Group

September 3, 2025

### Life’s Tiny Droplets: A Novel Method Revealing Biological Condensate Composition

Groundbreaking findings published in Nature Chemistry by researchers at PoL, IPF, and MPI-CBG highlight how the makeup of multi-component condensates can be measured.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2025/09/03/lifes-tiny-droplets-a-novel-method-revealing-biological-condensate-composition "››› read article")

© TUD/Magdalena Gonciarz

Science
Awards
RA2
Associates and Affiliates

April 27, 2024

### The Alberti group receives Momentum funding from the Volkswagen Foundation

The Alberti group, an affiliate of PoL, is at the forefront of condensate research, and has now secured funding from the Volkswagen Foundation to investigate oncofusion proteins.

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© Devarajan et al.

Science
Publications
RA2
Associates and Affiliates

March 14, 2024

### Charging Up: Identifying the Sequence-determinants of Condensate Material Properties

The Nikoubashman affiliate group at PoL and the IPF has published novel findings in Nature Communications, highlighting a link between charge patterning of intrinsically disordered proteins, and the corresponding material properties of condensates.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/03/14/devarajan-et-al-2024 "››› read article")

© CMCB / Magdalena Gonciarz (image generated with DALL.E3)

Science
Publications
RA2
RA3
Jahnel Group
Brugués Group

February 6, 2024

### Making Ends Meet: Researcher find that a protein superglue is crucial for DNA damage repair

A landmark study published in Cell, led by PoL member Alberti and including PoL group leaders Jahnel and Brugués, has revealed that PARP1 proteins form a kind of molecular superglue to hold broken DNA ends together.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2024/02/06/making-ends-meet-researcher-find-that-a-protein-superglue-is-crucial-for-dna-damage-repair "››› read article")

© Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden/Stephan Floss

Science
Publications
RA2
RA3
Associates and Affiliates

June 22, 2023

### Repelling disorder: What makes cholesterol-containing surfaces so repulsive?

Living organisms use powerful physical principles to control interactions at their surfaces. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Leipzig University and TU Dresden have now discovered why cholesterol-containing surfaces can exhibit greatly reduced attachment of proteins and bacteria.

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© Steven Freeman/Sven Döring

Awards
RA2
Associates and Affiliates

September 29, 2022

### 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for Anthony Hyman and Clifford Brangwynne

World’s largest science prize for discovering a new mechanism of cellular organization.

[››› read article](https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/news/2022/09/29/breakthrough-prize-life-sciences-hyman-brangwynne "››› read article")

© Fabio Novelli

RA2

December 1, 2021

### Using terahertz to explore the inside of the cell

Joint research group between the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life (PoL) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) to decipher biomolecules

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