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Criticism is an essential part of science. However, the personal vilification and blanket denunciation of researchers is not acceptable. Here is the MDC’s statement on the current campaign of Doctors Against Animal Experiments Germany.

The MDC researcher Jan Philipp Junker and his team have used CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to pioneer a technique capable of determining both the type and origin of all the cells in an organism. They describe their method in Nature Biotechnology.

Why can’t a heart regenerate itself? On March 16, 2018, UniStem Day brought cutting-edge stem cell research into schools to tackle such questions.

Reliably predicting the onset and trajectory of a disease might seem like a distant dream. But a European consortium is aiming to achieve exactly this using a set of emerging technologies with the analysis of single cells at their core.

The transposon system by MDC researcher Zsuzsanna Izsvák is part a new gene therapy project, funded with 2.8 million euros.

A research team led by Gary Lewin has now discovered that Piezo channels are highly sensitive to changes in membrane voltage.

Scientists from MDC and Mainz University have collected data on the evolutionary development of pizza in a European field study.

Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, to give a guest lecture March 19 at the MDC.