A photo of (left to right) Constanze Depp, PhD, Sara Mederos, PhD, and Cheng Lyu, PhD at the 2025 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology awards ceremony
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Cheng Lyu earned the 2025 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology for his work on olfactory circuit development, joined by finalists Constanze Depp and Sara Mederos.

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Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals New Cell Types in Flies

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Flies’ Taste for Tumor-Fighting Compounds May Aid Drug Discovery

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A Neural Circuit That Helps Flies Stay on Course

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Cancers with an Exceptional Cause

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The Scientist's Journal Club: Transcriptomics

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Scientists ID Heart-Damaging SARS-CoV-2 Protein

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Sweet Taste Receptors Regulate Proteins in Developing Fruit Flies

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December 2025, Issue 1

Wooden Neurons: An Artistic Vision of the Brain

A neurobiologist, who loves the morphology of cells, turns these shapes into works of art made from wood.

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Human iPSC-derived Models for Brain Disease Research

Human iPSC-derived Models for Neurodegenerative Disease Research

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Exploring the Inflammatory Tumor Microenvironment 

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