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Using skin organoids, Emanuel Wyler and collaborators in Hamburg have traced how herpes simplex virus 1 infection progresses among neighboring skin cells. The work, published in “Science Advances,” might ultimately help researchers understand why a common virus sometimes has serious consequences.

In 2024, the Max Delbrück Center published Strategy 2030. With Strategy Lab —our new video series — we check in on the transformation process and ask a simple question: what actually happens next?

In the Deutschlandfunk Kultur podcast “Zeitfragen,” immunologist Katja Simon discusses spermidine and whether the substance can actually have a positive impact on our health and the aging process.

Today’s commercial satellites can image landscapes with a level of detail unthinkable 20 years ago...

How does academic research become a multibillion-dollar biotech success story? On October 29, 2026 meet the founders and leadership of Tubulis, a company with roots in Berlin-Buch that was acquired by Gilead Sciences in a $5 billion deal. Listen to their story and ask your questions!

How will science change the way we live? Under the theme “In Touch,” Berlin Science Week 2026 explores how research touches our lives and connects us with one another. Several events at the Max Delbrück Center invite visitors to explore the future of medicine — and help shape it.

Five glass sculptures by artist Julia Lohmann will soon adorn the main entrance of the Imaging Innovation Center of the Max Delbrück Center in Buch. Lohmann won an art competition organized by the center for “Innenall,” an artwork inspired by the colors and shapes of microscopic images.

Aggressive tumors often contain large amounts of exchromosomal DNA. Removing this DNA from the nuclei of cancer cells could improve patient outcomes, an international team led by Anton Henssen of the Experimental and Clinical Research Center reports in “Nature Genetics.”

HI-TAC’s co-leadership team is complete: Johannes Backs, a physician, is now serving as scientific director of the Helmholtz Institute – alongside Karina Yaniv. Backs studies how the heart communicates with other organs and aims to bring new drugs to patients more quickly.

The Oliver Daumke lab and researchers at Freie Universität Berlin have revealed how a protein complex guards the entrance to channels in mitochondrial membranes called cristae. The work, published in “Nature Communications,” provides a blueprint for modeling human proteins in action.