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A top-class commission supported the GSCN in choosing the first awardees: - The „GSCN Young Investigator Award“ goes to Dr. Julia Ladewig of the Institute of Reconstructive Neurobiology of the...

The strategic collaboration includes a worldwide exclusive license agreement negotiated by MDC’s technology transfer partner Ascenion, along with collaborative research to be sponsored by Formula. The SB100X system will be...

Messenger (mRNA) molecules are a key component of protein biosynthesis. They are first transcribed as a “working copy” of the DNA and then translated into protein molecules. RNA-binding proteins such as RC3H1 (also known as ROQUIN) regulate the degradation of the mRNA molecules and thus prevent the production of specific proteins. Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) have now shown that ROQUIN binds several thousand mRNA molecules. They demonstrated that ROQUIN also influences the gene regulator NF-kappaB, a key mediator of cellular inflammation and stress responses (Nature Communications, Article number: 7367)*.

Cooperation with the MDC - The cardiovascular researcher Professor Robson Augusto Souza dos Santos of the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has been awarded the Georg Forster Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH).

These are the three winning pictures of the 2015 MDC Best Scientific Images Contest that have been chosen by the visitors of the Long Night of the Sciences (Lange Nacht...