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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.

For Ekaterina Perets, PhD student in the Rosenthal/Klussmann group, Rosh ha Shana, the Jewish New Year, is one of her personal favorite feasts. Here she tells us about it.

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.