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Experiments increasingly rely on high-performance computing software that plays a crucial role in producing and interpreting data. Differences in software environments can cause problems when those experiments need to be reproduced – so scientists at the MDC in Berlin are helping find a solution.

After 13 rapid divisions a fertilized fly egg consists of about 6,000 cells. They all look alike...

While hundreds of circular RNAs (circRNAs) are abundant in mammalian brains, one big question has...

Supporting, organizing and carrying out research are the main tasks of scientific funding bodies and institutions. ORION, a Europe-wide collaborative project in the life sciences and biomedicine, aims to make these processes more transparent to the public. The MDC joins eight other partners in the project, which kicks off in Barcelona this week.

Medical imaging has an unavoidable side effect: MRI machines generate heat. Thoralf Niendorf has now been awarded an ERC Advanced grant to turn this feature into a tool to study the role of temperature in animal bodies. A second ERC Advanced Grant goes to Thomas Jentsch, who will explore the functions of ion channels in health and disease.

Gene mapping technique promises to unlock the power of proximity to find genes implicated in diseases