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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.

“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’).

In the 1950s, the Basilica de San Nicola – a church in the Italian harbor city of Bari – was...

The annual campus charity Glühwein project hit new heights in 2014, raising the largest amount of...

Construction on a new animal facility, the so-called In vivo Pathophysiology Laboratory (IPL) at the MDC, have started.

“Dear future colleagues” – with these words Ernst T. Rietschel, chairman of the board of directors of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), welcomes the 400 school students attending this year’s capital forum MINT400. The young people, together with 50 teachers, have come to the MDC in Berlin Buch to learn about basic biomedical research.

The artists Elisabetta Citterio and Claudia Cagliano have created portraits of nearly 60 female researchers from nine countries. Twenty-five of them can be viewed in the "STEM Passion" exhibition until March 12, 2024 in the Rahel Hirsch Center for Translational Medicine Berlin.