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In a ceremony under the motto “Research and Responsibility” the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch celebrated its 20th anniversary on Friday, December 7, 2012. Germany’s Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan gave the keynote address in the Max Delbrück Communications Center (MDC.C). Also present at the event were Cornelia Yzer, the Berlin Senator for Economics, Technology and Research, Professor Jürgen Mlynek, President of the Helmholtz Association of which the MDC is a member, and numerous representatives from politics and science.

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In a ceremony under the motto “Research and Responsibility” the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch celebrated its 20th anniversary on Friday, December 7, 2012. Germany’s Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan gave the keynote address in the Max Delbrück Communications Center (MDC.C). Also present at the event were Cornelia Yzer, the Berlin Senator for Economics, Technology and Research, Professor Jürgen Mlynek, President of the Helmholtz Association of which the MDC is a member, and numerous representatives from politics and science.

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Dr. Andrei Varykhalov and his colleagues in the group of Prof. Dr. Oliver Rader investigated at BESSY II the electronic properties of nickel coated with graphene and achieved an astonishing result. They could show that the conduction electrons of the graphene behave rather as light than as particles. Physicists had originally expected such behavior only for freestanding graphene layers which show a perfect honeycomb structure and not for graphene on nickel which disturbs the perfect hexagonal symmetry. Their results are supported by calculations of two theoretical groups using novel concepts. Their report was published yesterday evening in the open access journal, Phys. Rev. X, the new top...

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Reliably monitoring extensive areas of the sea is a major challenge for the coastguard and emergency relief services. Unmanned aircraft are expected to make a critical contribution to this in the future.

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Am HZDR wird zum 1. Januar 2013 ein neues Institut für Radioonkologie gegründet. Institutsdirektor ist der Dresdner Krebsforscher Prof. Michael Baumann, der auch die Klinik für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie am Universitätsklinikum Dresden leitet sowie für das Dresdner OncoRay-Zentrum spricht.

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Am HZDR wird zum 1. Januar 2013 ein neues Institut für Radioonkologie gegründet. Institutsdirektor ist der Dresdner Krebsforscher Prof. Michael Baumann, der auch die Klinik für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie am Universitätsklinikum Dresden leitet sowie für das Dresdner OncoRay-Zentrum spricht.

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Up to now the shore crab has belonged to those animal species thought by scientists to be more or less immune to climate change. One reason for this was that the crabs are highly tolerant to extremes temperature and feel just as at home in the eight degrees offered by the Atlantic as they do in the 20 degrees warm Mediterranean. A study conducted by German and Italian scientists has now shown, however, that shore crabs react most sensitively to temperature anomalies at certain times of life – as embryos in the egg.

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Geoscience students at RWTH Aachen University and the universities of Bonn and Cologne can now take part in lectures and seminars at all three sites free of charge if they are enrolled at one of the universities. This only used to be possible if students were prepared to pay a three-figure sum per semester to register at a second university. The offices of the three rectors have now signed an agreement implementing this innovation. This measure was initiated by the Geoverbund ABC/J, a network comprising Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen University, and the universities of Bonn and Cologne, focusing on the human-earth system in the context of global change.

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Oxidative stress is believed to cause a number of diseases. Up to now, it has been common practice to measure oxidative stress levels by determining the oxidation state of a small molecule called glutathione in cell extracts. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have been the first to discover that cells under stress deposit their oxidized glutathione in a cellular waste repository. This protects cells from oxidative stress – and questions the validity of the conventional measuring method.

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Immunologists discover a novel target to suppress a common virus. Most people become infected with the human cytomegalovirus (CMV) at some point in life. Over millions of years, our immune system has evolved a trick or two to defend us against this virus, but unfortunately, CMV evolved its own tricks, too. New drugs to target viral genes that counter the immune response might support the immune system in the fight against this widespread virus. The idea ...

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