Archive
Press and Articles
2017
A virtual fly embryo (Karaiskos, Wahle et al, Science, 13 October 2017; labs of Nikolaus Rajewsky and Robert Zinzen)
- El Dia, 11 September 2017: Embrión “virtual” develará primeras fases de la vida (Spanish)
- Science and Life (НАУКА И ЖИЗНЬ), 6 September 2017: Виртуальный эмбрион с клеточным разрешением (Russian)
- Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, 5 September 2017: Virtual Embryo Predicts Real Gene Expression Patterns, Cell by Cell
- Clarin, 4 September 2017: Un embrión virtual permitirá develar los secretos de las primeras fases de la vida
- Ansa, Scienza & Technica, 4 September 2017: In un embrione virtuale le prime fasi della vita (Italian)
- Science Daily, 31 August 2017: Reconstructing life at its beginning, cell by cell
- MDC Insights, 31 August 2017: Zelle für Zelle den Beginn des Lebens rekonstruieren (German)
- La Sicilia, 31 August 2017: Ricostruita la vita al suo inizio cellula per cellula (Italian)
Circular RNA impacts brain function (Piwecka, Glazar et al., Science, 22 September 2017; labs of Carmen Birchmeier and Nikolaus Rajewsky):
- Laborjournal, 12 September 2017: Gläserner Fliegen-Embryo (German)
- Tagesspiegel, 22 August 2017: Der Mensch denkt in Kringeln (German)
- Tagesspiegel, 22 August 2017: Cooler als DNS (Kasten zu „Der Mensch denkt in Kringeln“) (German)
- Süddeutsche Zeitung, 20 August 2017: Sonderbare Kringel (German)
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 August 2017: Ringförmige RNA-Moleküle („Wissen in Kürze“, not online) (German)
- Epigenie,15 August 2017: Running in Circles: circRNAs Act as Shuttles for miRNA Cargo
- Frontline Genomics, 15 August 2017: Circular RNAs Help to Preserve Fragile MicroRNAs in the Brain
- Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, 14 August 2017: Loss of Circular RNA Throws Brain for a Loop
- The Scientist, 10 August 2017: First In Vivo Function Found for Animal Circular RNA
- Spektrum, 10 August 2017: Ringförmige RNA steuert Filter im Gehirn (German)
About 20 other news outlets reported on the study as well.
A new technology dynamically records the differentiation of stem cells and provides insights into the development of different tissues and into the development of cancer (DKFZ collaboration with Sascha Sauer). Ärzteblatt, 22 August 2017: Neue Technik: Zelldifferenzierung per Barcode verfolgen (German)
Recent research has revealed many surprises about circular RNAs (citing several studies of Nikolaus Rajewsky). The Scientist, 17 July 2017: Uncovering Functions of Circular RNAs
Analyses of life's most basic elements promise to improve therapies and provide insights into some of the most fundamental processes in biology (the editorial regarding this special mentions a News & Views by Ana Pombo). Nature News, 5 July 2017: Single cell biology
Scientists are striving for a deeper view of development, from embryo to adult, cell-by-cell (Jan Philipp Juncker is quoted on cell-lineage trees of early embryos). Nature News, 5 July 2017: The trickiest family tree in biology
A team of Israeli and German scientists have discovered a protein-coding function for circular RNA (Pamudurti et al., Molecular Cell, 6 April 2017; collaboration of Sebastian Kadener from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with Markus Landthaler, Marina Chekuleava and Nikolaus Rajewsky):
- Nature Reviews Genetics, 3 September 2017: „RNA: Translated circular RNAs“
- Science „In Depth“, 31 March 2017: „Circular RNAs hint at new realm of genetics“
- Jerusalem Post, 27 March 2017: Israeli-German study shows circular RNA can encode for proteins
- Haaretz, 23 March 2017: Circular RNA Mystery Clearing Up: Are They Linked to Aging?
An international team of scientists around Ana Pombo has devised a powerful new technique that maps the three-dimensional geography of the entire genome. Technology Networks, 13 March 2017: Mapping the genome in 3D
iMDC
Articles published in iMDC, the magazine for all employees and guests of the MDC
Strong partners from China (issue 04/2013, in English and German)
The Quest to Understand “How Life Works” (issue 03/2012, in English and German)
Team Spirit, Molecules, Flashes of Light and a Spontaneous Idea (issue 02/2011, in English and German)
Berlin or New York (issue 02/2011, in English and German)
Starting Shot for new BIMSB Building in Berlin City (issue 01/2011, in English and German)
Systembiologie.de
Articles published in systembiologie.de, a magazine about people, research projects, studies and events in the research area of systems biology in Germany
RNA bioinformatics under one roof - The RNA bioinformatics service center (issue 10/2016, in English and German)
German network for bioinformatics infrastructure - de.NBI (issue 10/2016, in English and German)
enigmatic RNAs - Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a widespread class of molecules (issue 08/2014, in English and German)
hepatomasys - Evaluating cancer’s metabolome for diagnosis and therapy (issue 08/2014, in English and German)
If it says C. elegans on the cover, it is actually about systems biology! (issue 08/2014, in English and German)
Da ist die Dynamik spürbar (issue 07/2013, only in German)
ISBE - Infrastructure for Systems Biology in Europe (issue 06+07/2013, in English and German)
Of mice and models - Geneticists and system biologists meet at the Berlin Summer Meeting 2012 (issue 06/2013, in English and German)
Dem posttranskriptionalen regulatorischen Code auf der Spur (issue 05/2012, only in German)
Digital and analogue data processing in the p53 signalling pathway (issue 04/2012, in English and German)
Systems biology goes multicellular (issue 03/2011, in English and German)
Systembiologie in Berlin – Potentiale und Perspektiven (issue 02/2010, only in German)
Cell
When Science Is a Family Tradition (Cell 11/2015, only in English)
Nature Methods
A blooming genomic desert (Nature Methods 11/2014, only in English)
bild der wissenschaft
bild der wissenschaft plus: "Gesundheit 2030 - Die molekulare Herausforderung", a special edition in association with MDC and FMP
Das Leben auf allen Ebenen zugleich (2012, only in German)
Other
Unternehmen Region - Entrepreneurial Regions - The BMBF Innovation Initiative for the New German Länder
Der Schlüssel des Lebens - die Regulation der Gene (2012, only in German)
ZEIT Magazin - Interview with Klaus and Nikolaus Rajewsky
Bisher war es aufregend, jetzt wird es dramatisch (issue 29/2011, only in German)