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EU-LIFE, the alliance of 13 leading life science research institutes in Europe, urges the European Parliament and the EU Council to push for a strong Horizon Europe.

The tissue biobank “MyoPax” was selected as one of six new business ideas that are going to be funded by Helmholtz. It will store patient's muscle stem cells until regenerative therapies are approved.

Science under the stars: This year’s Long Night of the Sciences brought more than 6,000 interested members of the public to the Berlin-Buch campus – despite the intense summer heat.

Chromosomes occupy different territories in the nucleus; their arrangement and communication with each other is still poorly understood. Scientists from Berlin and Jena published in EMBO Journal findings about structural chromosomal aberrations which have an effect on genome organization (chromosomal kissing) and disease progression.

The “Jugend forscht” prize winner Teresa Lesch learned about the impact of DNA defects at school. She has now gained first-hand insights into current research as an intern in Michela Di Virgilio’s research group at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC).

The Berlin-Buch campus and the HELIOS Klinikum Berlin-Buch are trialing a joint bicycle-sharing initiative that provides employees with free transportation between Buch train station and their place of work.

The conference “Muscle Development, Regeneration and Disease 2018” took place at the MDC in late April. This event has in recent years become an increasingly important international platform for muscle research.

MDC researchers have described how the heart forms itself into a its characteristic S-shape and how the ventricles and atria finally develop. Their findings will help to better understand congenital heart diseases.

With three-dimensional cell cultures – organoids – MDC scientists are simulating the properties of organs outside the body and searching for new anti-cancer agents. For the Long Night of Science, we have prepared some insights into this research.

The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) has been participating in the German National Cohort since 2014. More than 8,000 people have already been examined as part of this nationwide study into health and disease.