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Berlin, Texas, and back: Sandra Blois researches pregnancy complications

Dr. Sandra Blois and her new group at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) are investigating how sugar chains in the cell influence placental development and complications during and after pregnancy. The immunologist started her work at the MDC at the beginning of 2019.
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Press Release No. 32 Berlin

New Risk Factor Identified for High Blood Pressure during Pregnancy

Preeclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy and the major cause of death for both mother and child in Europe and the U.S. It affects about one in 20 pregnancies. The main symptoms are high blood pressure and protein in the urine.
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Press Release No. 14 Berlin

Immune cells Ameliorate Hypertension-Induced Cardiac Damage in Mice

Researchers in Berlin, Germany have found that a specific type of immune cell, the regulatory T lymphocyte (Treg) plays an important role in hypertension-induced cardiac damage. The injected Treg that they harvested from donor mice into recipient mice were infused with angiotensin II, a blood pressure-raising peptide.
Preis der Deutschen Hochdruckliga für Ralf Dechend und Dominik Müller
Institute & Campus

Berlin hypertension researchers receive prize by German Society for Hypertension

Professor Ralf Dechend and Professor Dominik N. Müller were awarded the Franz Gross Science Prize of the Deutsche Hochdruckliga. The German Society for Hypertension and Prevention presented its most prestigious award at its annual congress on 23 November 2018.
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Press Release No. 20 Berlin

When Clinicians and Researchers Look Outside the Box

1st ECRC “Franz-Volhard” Symposium at the MDC - What does the immune system have to do with blood pressure, and what does the hypertension enzyme ACE have to do with the immune system and cancer?
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Press Release No. 10 Berlin

New Light Shed on the Enigma of Salt Intake and Hypertension

A high salt intake has been implicated in cardiovascular disease risk for 5000 years. But salt-sensitive hypertension still remains an enigma.
Chrysanthi-Maria Moysidou, Ivan Ezquerra Romano and Ashwin Karthick Natarajan
Science

Our latest Marie Curie Fellowship winners

Three Max Delbrück post-docs have won Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships of €174,000 each. They will study how we perceive wetness, the structure of a mitochondrial protein, and integrate bioelectronics into neuromuscular organoids respectively.
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Press Release No. 22 Berlin

Sharpening the gene scissors together

The Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, and the biotech company AlgenScribe from Nice have agreed to cooperate to further develop their gene-editing tools. The aim is to utilize synergies, accelerate research, and ultimately develop cell therapies for genetically determined diseases.
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Press Release No. 24 Berlin

A new culprit in Huntington’s disease

Researchers in Berlin and Düsseldorf have implicated a new gene in the progression of Huntington’s disease in a brain organoid model. The gene may contribute to brain abnormalities much earlier than previously thought. The study was published in “Nature Communications.”
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Science

Preeclampsia: What tiny veins can tell us

There are few pregnancy diseases as life-threatening as preeclampsia. But the danger doesn’t end after birth: Mothers with preeclamptic pregnancies have a much higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease later in life. Kristin Kräker from the Experimental and Clinical Research Center is working on an early warning system.