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Almost all human cells are equipped with the chloride ion channel ASOR. But what for? It is essential for the shrinkage of particularly large vesicles - and thus influences certain immune and cancer cells, the FMP and MDC team around Thomas Jentsch now reports in Nature Cell Biology.

The ability to perform complex movements is vital for animals. A team led by MDC researcher Niccolò Zampieri has now described in the journal “Current Biology” how little-studied sensory neurons near the central canal in the spinal cord help regulate such motor functions.

For 30 years, scientists at the MDC have been investigating the underlying mechanisms of health and disease. And that’s not possible without thinking outside the box, say Thomas Sommer and Young-Ae Lee. We spoke with the two scientists about the history of the MDC and approaches to biomedical research.

He has devoted much of his life to studying high blood pressure. Now Friedrich Luft has been honored for his significant contributions. The World Hypertension League has given him the Peter Sleight Award for Excellence in Hypertension Clinical Research.

Digitalization is having a rapid impact in the field of medicine, with data sciences and AI offering ever-increasing benefits for the development of new vaccines and drugs. Pfizer manager Peter Albiez discusses how graduate schools like HEIBRiDS are helping meet the enormous demand for specialists in the data sciences.

There’s likely to be a fundamental difference between how a medical practicioner and an artist view genetic editing with CRISPR. But both perspectives reveal possible ways to shape life in nature. Science meets art: the Max Delbrück Center at the Salon Sophie Charlotte 2022 in Berlin.

Translucent and offering abundant space for communication to systems biologists at the BIMSB: The Association of German Architects has praised the building of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), which was be completed in 2019, at the “BDA Prize Berlin”.

Stem cells in the bone marrow form the cells of the blood throughout life. In the process, mistakes can occur leading to cancer. Together with a research team from Berlin, Heidelberg and Boston, Simon Haas describes in "Cell Stem Cell" a mechanism that allows the body to protect itself from this risk.

On Girls' Day, researchers at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) shared their thoughts on bioinformatics and let the students work with data sets and programs themselves. The bottom line: research is fun – even though or even because the tasks are complex.