Plant Science flourishes Cologne's Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research generates a new understanding of how plants work. By Hildegard Kaulen Scientist collecting samples from potato plants at the Max Planck's Institute for Plant Breeding Research greenhouse. © Maret Kalda, Max Planck Institute Take any significant chunk of scientific history, and you'll find that an event from North Rhine-Westphalia is in th

Rainer Fischer In the ancient imperial city of Aachen, a global strategy for antibodies and vaccines from plants and microbes is being planned. By Hildegard Kaulen In the early Middle Ages, the German city of Aachen was the northern capital of Charlemagne's empire. Today, the city is home to western Europe's largest technical university (Technical University in Aachen), the only one in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) given elite status in Germ