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Technology Platform Flow Cytometry

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Research News & Events

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Stray proteins cause genetic disorders

Misaddressed proteins are mislocalized, with possibly fatal consequences for the cell.
Microscopic image of a fly’s brain
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Predicting the onset and course of Huntington’s disease

The origin of this incurable nervous disease lies in minute fibers formed by chains of the huntingtin protein.
Thomas Südhof presents his work at the MDC
Science

A matter of synapses: Nobel Prize winner Thomas Südhof speaks at the MDC

Thomas Südhof gave a talk at the MDC about the role of neuroligins – a video of his lecture can now be watched online.
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Science

Tiny worms are helping reprogram human cells

Switching off “safeguard” genes improves cell reprogramming, aiding future regenerative therapies.
Journals
Science

A fig leaf for dubious research

The shady practices of predatory publishers have been making headlines in recent weeks. Professor Martin Lohse, Scientific Director at the MDC, explains in the following interview why these practices pose a risk to the overall credibility of science.
Animal Research Talk
Science

Defending the Middle Ground: Why We Need to Talk About Animal Research

Animal research is frequently a closed topic. However, the MDC has a tradition of transparency and as part of a wider movement to make science more open to society this is changing in other places as well.
Mikroskopie Ausstellung
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A journey through the history of microscopy – new exhibition opens at the MDC

A permanent medical history exhibition at the Berlin-based Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) impressively shows that microscopes have always been part of medical advances.
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Institute & Campus

Seeing through the Eyes of the Other

Finnish Artist Emilia Tikka will spend two months as Artist in Residence at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin to explore the genome editing technology CRISPR-Cas9. The unusual exchange between art and science will result in an exhibition at the Opening of STATE Studio Berlin.

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Publications

High peak and high average radiofrequency power transmit/receive switch for thermal magnetic resonance

Magn Reson Med

The neural circuits of thermal perception

Curr Opin Neurobiol

Muscle MRI in patients with dysferlinopathy: pattern recognition and implications for clinical trials

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry

MOG antibody disease: a review of MOG antibody seropositive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder

Mult Scler Relat Disord

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