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The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) has celebrated its 25th anniversary with some 550 invited guests. At the same time, the Board of Directors honored five individuals to whom the MDC owes a large debt of gratitude, especially during the early years.

When water intake is low, humans and other higher organisms produce very small quantities of urine....

Moving from mitochondrial research to stem cell biology gave Alessandro Prigione new tools and perspectives. Now he has made a model of mitochondrial disease from stem cells with promising results.

Velvet is a special fabric used to make elegant and luxuriously soft and warm jackets and pants. But how is it used in the lab?

The career development for the foregut is rather limited, as it sometimes has to learn the hard way.

The 3D landscapes of the genome have to change all the time. Otherwise genes would not be expressed properly and physiology would be in disarray. Ana Pombo’s group is mapping this genomic regulation.

Cats are not allowed in the lab of Oliver Daumke’s research team. Yet they make a valuable contribution to research – and we reveal what that is ...

Instead of holding out in Syria, Souriana Almeer Mahmoud and her family moved to Berlin. Now she is completing an internship at the MDC library thanks to the Helmholtz refugee initiative.