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Professor Nikolaus Rajewsky of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin is to receive Germany’s most prestigious research award, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. The announcement was made by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on Thursday, December 8, 2011.

A red dye derived from lichens that has been used for centuries to color fabrics and food appears to reduce the abundance of small toxic protein aggregates in Alzheimer’s disease.

Four researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch will receive a total of eight million euros in research funding from the European Research Council (ERC) in Strasbourg.

Dr. Malgorzata Borowiak, a researcher in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA, has been awarded a grant from the Helmholtz Association to return to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, as head of a Young Investigators Group. At the MDC, which is a member of the Helmholtz Association, Dr. Borowiak aims to contribute to diabetes research by studying the molecular basis of beta cell development. These cells, which produce insulin, a hormone essential for life, are defective in diabetics. Dr. Borowiak will also cooperate with Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

The MDC explores the development of diseases inside the cell, focusing on genes and proteins. Using...

Loss of a gene regulator is crucial for a rare type of skin cancer - Scientists at the Max Delbrück Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik Berlin, and four other German institutes have succeeded in proving a specific gene loss in a certain human lymphoma, the genesis of which is largely unexplained to date.

The MDC, the biotechnology park with its 51 companies, and other research institutions are located...

Colon cancer is one of the most common tumor diseases in Western countries. In Germany alone, there...

A special group of glial cells which have the form of stars and are therefore called astroglial cells or astrocytes, seem to play a crucial role in brain tumor development and dissemination.

New neurons derive from stem cells that reside in a niche of the brain known as the subventricular...