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Technology Platform Flow Cytometry

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Technology Platform Bioinformatics

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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, both institutions and individual scientists have been very reluctant to discuss it publicly. 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. Manufacturers and scientists in Berlin and Brandenburg have played a key role in this success story. The future of medicine is also linked to the microscope.
induced pluripotent stem cells in a pluripotency test
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.
The Northern White Rhino Fatu is one of the last two remaining females of their species
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First steps to rescue the Northern White Rhino

Northern White Rhinos ( NWR ) are functionally extinct, as only two females are left on this planet. An international team has now successfully completed three milestones that could bring the species back to life. Their research has been published in Nature Communications.
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For a strong Horizon Europe

EU-LIFE, the alliance of 13 leading life science research institutes in Europe, urges the European Parliament and the EU Council to push for a strong Horizon Europe.

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Publications

The association between brain volume, cortical brain infarcts, and physical frailty

Neurobiol Aging

The neural circuits of thermal perception

Curr Opin Neurobiol

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

Mult Scler Relat Disord

Transdifferentiation: do transition states lie on the path of development?

Curr Opin Syst Biol

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