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Huge amounts of data are produced in life science research – but few know how to analyze them. The Computational Genomics Summer School at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) wants to change this by offering young researchers intensive data analysis training.

If a project is missing a certain protein, such as an antibody, Anja Schütz can help. The biochemist has been leading the Protein Production and Characterization Platform at the MDC since May 2018.

Finnish Artist Emilia Tikka will spend two months as Artist in Residence at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin to explore the genome editing technology CRISPR-Cas9. The unusual exchange between art and science will result in an exhibition at the Opening of STATE Studio Berlin.

Northern White Rhinos ( NWR ) are functionally extinct, as only two females are left on this planet. An international team has now successfully completed three milestones that could bring the species back to life. Their research has been published in Nature Communications.

After the summer break, the MDC welcomes new scientists in leading positions: Darío Lupíañez is a junior group leader at the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) and Philipp Mertins is the new head of the Proteomics Platform of MDC and BIH.

For some applications – such as in developmental biology – the genome cannot just be chopped up into tiny pieces before decoding. Instead, long read lengths of several thousand bases are needed. A recent paper in Nature shows what the PacBio sequencer at the Scientific Genomics Platform at the MDC can do.

MRI is zooms in on a scale of life that is crucial to biomedical progress and is attracting highly talented young scientists to the intersection between physics, biology, and medicine. A report from the 8th Conference on UHF MRI at the MDC, held in June.

To save the northern white rhino from extinction an international research team around Thomas Hildebrandt and Sebastian Diecke has chosen an unusual approach. They want to facilitate an in vitro fertilisation by transforming the animals’ skin cells into egg cells.

Even an analog synthesizer has to be tuned. As the cables travel from one jack to the next, the artist’s neurons produce a different note each time. On the boundaries of stem cell technology and creating art in a lab.

Mass spectrometry metabolomics at the MDC now has a second leg to stand on: On October 1, Dr. Jennifer Kirwan took up her position as the new head of the Metabolomics Core Facility of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), which is situated at the MDC. Dr. Stefan Kempa, who has been in charge until now, will continue to head the Metabolomics Core Facility within BIMSB.