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From October 25 to 27, Berlin will welcome top international researchers whose work has shaped the development of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) at the Max Delbrück Center. They are coming together now to celebrate the MDC research unit’s 10th anniversary and its relocation to Berlin Mitte.

CRISPR inspires scientists and artists alike – in different ways. At Berlin Science Week, the MDC presents the result of an artist residency on genome editing and a debate on whether we know enough about the genome to actually use such tools in humans.

Jutta Kramm took over on October 1, 2018, as head of the Communications Department at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC). Kramm, 59, was previously a PR manager and spokesperson at the children’s rights organization Save the Children Germany.

Professor Heike Graßmann took over as Administrative Director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) on October 1, 2018. She succeeds Dr. Heike Wolke, who is going into retirement after five years at the MDC and 25 years with the Helmholtz Association.

Misaddressed proteins are mislocalized, with possibly fatal consequences for the cell.

The origin of this incurable nervous disease lies in minute fibers formed by chains of the huntingtin protein.

Microglia, the immune cells of the central nervous system, differ in male and female mice. MDC researchers report on the sex-specific features in Cell Reports. Their findings could change how we treat neurological diseases.

In a new initiative, 23 groups from five Helmholtz Centers are joining forces to address some of the most complex problems in today's immunology in ways that can only be explored in collaboration.

A permanent medical history exhibition at the Berlin-based Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) impressively shows that microscopes have always been part of medical advances.

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.