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Reliably predicting the onset and trajectory of a disease might seem like a distant dream. But a European consortium is aiming to achieve exactly this using a set of emerging technologies with the analysis of single cells at their core.

Every day more than 1000 scientists and clinicians pile off the S2 and stream up the Karower Chaussee and onto the campus and clinics of Buch, many of them rarely having much if anything to do with the local community. A new initiative bringing the different communities together hopes help change this.

Only a few years ago it was dismissed as impossible. Now it is the research subject of MDC alumnus Prof. Gerd Kempermann: the self-regenerating brain. Kempermann is studying the function of brain stem cells in the learning process and how and why an active life makes mice (and people) mentally fit.

What keeps us healthy? This is the question that the National Cohort, Germany's largest population...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be combined with an iron nanoparticle preparation that provides a sharp view of microscopic blood vessels in patient’s bodies that have been too small to see with other methods.

4 degrees Celsius and not a lot of oxygen: under adverse environmental conditions human muscle stem cells – the so-called satellite cells – revert back to their survival mode.

Magdalena Götz will give a public lecture entitled „Mechanisms of Neurogenesis – from Glial Cells to...

Subscription fees for scientific journals are rising faster than inflation. Even well funded...

MDC group leader Michael Sieweke has been appointed as one of two “Einstein BIH Visiting Fellows” under a funding program by the Berlin Institute of Health.

“50 years, that may sound old for young people but curiosity keeps this competition young. And curiosity keeps us young in science.” With these words, Walter Rosenthal, the MDC’s scientific director greeted the 200 guests for the launch of the 50th round of the “Jugend forscht” competition (Jugend forscht translates into ‘yong people do research’).