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Press Release No. 17 Berlin

Circular RNA linked to brain function

While hundreds of circular RNAs (circRNAs) are abundant in mammalian brains, one big question has...
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Thomas Willnow: Funding for risky projects

Thomas Willnow analyzes the connections between metabolism and dementia. We asked him why European funding is essential to his research and why he considers it to be risky.
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Two become one

Our sense of touch tells us whether an object is wet or dry, rough or smooth, hard or soft.
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Honorary doctorate conferred on Thomas J. Jentsch

The Berlin-based neuroscientist was named Honorary Doctor by the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) on May 2, 2017.
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Press Release No. 5 Berlin

How cells protect themselves against mechanical stress

A research team led by Gary Lewin has now discovered that Piezo channels are highly sensitive to changes in membrane voltage.
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Gerd Kempermann and the self-renewing brain

Only a few years ago it was dismissed as impossible. Now it is the research subject of MDC alumnus Prof. Gerd Kempermann: the self-regenerating brain. Kempermann is studying the function of brain stem cells in the learning process and how and why an active life makes mice (and people) mentally fit.
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Press Release No. 19 Berlin

Professor Susan Lindquist from the Whitehead Institute Receives Max Delbrück Medal in Berlin

The American molecular biologist Susan Lindquist from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the Max Delbrück Medal awarded in Berlin, Germany. Lindquist, who is also a biology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was honored for her work on protein folding.
Press Release No. 30 Berlin

Researchers Discover new Key Function of an Enzyme in the Nervous System – Impact on Drug Development against Alzheimer`s Disease

Ever since scientists first elucidated the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathology and loss of nerve cells in Alzheimer’s disease, drug companies have been working to develop drugs which will inhibit the outbreak of this severe form of dementia.
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Press Release No. 7 Berlin

Pain and touch sensations require Schwann cells

Special receptor cells under the skin enable us to feel pain and touch. But Schwann cells also play a key role in detecting such stimuli, researchers at the Max Delbrück Center report in “Nature Communications.” This discovery opens new avenues for pain therapy.
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Press Release No. 15 Berlin

Molecule protects against developing Alzheimer’s Disease

A molecule expressed by nerve cells may protect humans from developing Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). In particular, it may reduce the risk of the formation of senile plaques in the brains of patients with AD, as researchers from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch (Germany) and their collaborators in Denmark, Australia, and the USA have been able to demonstrate.