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A school app for Covid rapid testing, new macro photography methods, and a smart walking frame – the 57th edition of the regional “Jugend forscht” competition brought forth lots of exciting new projects. The MDC’s Special Award went to a team at the Humboldt-Gymnasium high school in Berlin’s Tegel district.

The NAKO Health Study collected data from 205,000 participants in its initial surveys. The German-speaking scientific community can now use the TransferHub to evaluate the data in their own studies. MDC operates a NAKO study centre.

Thomas Sommer is the Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center, and he heads the research group "Intracellular Proteolysis". His reading tip is dedicated to a novel written in 1936 by a German author in exile. The book describes the fate of a mime in the dictatorship.

In muscular dystrophies, there can also be a deterioration in the heart's function. For a study on such cardiac involvement, the German Society for Muscular Dystrophies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke e.V.) has awarded ECRC researchers Jeanette Schulz-Menger and Edyta Blaszczyk the Ulrich Brodeßer FSHD Prize 2022.

Biochemist Sabrina Geisberger researches the effects of salt consumption on our health at the Max Delbrück Center. We asked her five questions.

Zebrafish have played an important role in basic biomedical research for over 50 years, including research into the causes of congenital heart defects and the consequences of heart attacks. For researchers working with these fish, it's important to respect animal welfare and find ways of improving it.

Colleagues are donating money for medicines, working groups are offering jobs for Ukrainian researchers, and the student lab is opening its doors to children from Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has inspired great solidarity at the MDC. Overview.

How can a heart heal itself? And what determines the sex of a living organism? The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to Dr. Jan Philipp Junker and Dr. Darío Lupiáñez to tackle these questions. Each researcher will receive €2 million over five years for their research.

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases have one thing in common: misfolded proteins damage the nerve cells in the brain. Erich Wanker and Anne Ast explained at the Urania Berlin why the protein origami is so important, how the damage occurs and what can be done about it (recording in German).