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Those who need to change their eating habits to normalise their blood pressure should start with a fast. In the journal “Nature Communications”, MDC and ECRC scientists explain why patients can use it as a tool to improve their health in the long term.

The new cryo-electron microscope on the Buch campus is four meters tall and captures images of tiny, nanometer-scale structures. The MDC has constructed a special building to house this feat of technology, which is now available to Berlin’s structural biology community. Dr. Christoph Diebolder of Charité heads the facility.

All living things are built from proteins. Biologist Matthias Selbach uses the technique of mass spectrometry to understand the various functions of proteins and to systematically hunt down those that cause – or can prevent – disease.

Leading experts shared their latest research and predictions for the coronavirus pandemic during the I&I Virtual Symposium on COVID-19. There was a lot of good news about vaccines and immune responses, but also caution that a third wave is just starting. The event was hosted by Immunology and Inflammation (I&I) and the MDC.