CRISPR/Cas9

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.

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.

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.

The conference “Muscle Development, Regeneration and Disease 2018” took place at the MDC in late April. This event has in recent years become an increasingly important international platform for muscle research.

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.

Basic medical research would be impossible without math and chemistry. At this year's MINT400 Forum, 350 schoolchildren and 50 teachers from all over Germany came together to learn about the importance of interdisciplinary research for science today.