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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.

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.

On April 25, 2022, Federal Commissioner for East Germany, Minister of State Carsten Schneider, and Governing Mayor of Berlin Franziska Giffey visited Campus Berlin-Buch to see how the “Zukunftsort” (place of the future) is developing.

Christian Stadelmann has been fascinated by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing since he was an undergrad. Now, the PhD student is investigating the possibility of applying it to treat hereditary muscular dystrophy in Professor Simone Spuler's research group at the ECRC.

The contractile and elastic properties of the heart are finely tuned. This is a prerequisite for the cardiac cycle and efficient adaptation. At the MDC, Michael Gotthardt investigates the underlying molecular and biomechanical mechanisms. He is awarded with an ERC Advanced Grant for this work.