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How a decades-long quest led to the first gene therapy for deafness caused by a mutation.   A home video from 2025 captures a toddler absorbed in play with a toy bulldozer. When an adult calls out “hello”, the boy turns his head. Another video filmed around nine months later

With the international symposium “Bioimaging across scales”, the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) reflected on eight years of interdisciplinary cutting-edge research. Groundbreaking imaging technologies were developed, molecular structures unveiled, and new insights into the function of the heart and brain achieved. Although the MBExC funding concludes at the

The University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) is constructing a new research building for the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience (IAN). By the end of 2028, laboratories, offices, and spaces for scientific exchange will be completed across more than 1,800 square meters. In the new building, researchers will collaborate with the research

The MBExC cordially welcomes Dr. Mette Handberg-Thorsager, who started her position as Application Specialist for Multiscale Biology on 15th July 2026. Her research will focus on “how genes, cells, and biophysical mechanisms interact to shape the animal body plan, particularly in marine invertebrates”. Her Application Specialist fellow position is affiliated

The Polish Academy of Sciences has elected new foreign members. MBExC member Prof. Dr. Peter Rehling, director of the Institute for Cell Biochemistry at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), will become a new member of Division II for Biological and Agricultural Sciences. Membership in the Polish Academy of Sciences

Cancer occurs when cells divide uncontrollably and displace healthy cells. Tumor suppressors provide an important defense against this. As molecular growth inhibitors, they prevent healthy cells from becoming cancerous. A key protein among them is p53, also known as the “guardian of the genome”. If p53 detects errors in a

Constantin Pape heads a new bridge research group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (MPI-NAT). The AKB Foundation is funding his group for a period of five years through the institute’s Manfred Eigen-Förderstiftung (Manfred Eigen Foundation). The funding will provide resources for IT equipment and three staff positions.

faktor magazine interview about the Hertha Sponer College: At the Hertha Sponer College (HSC) in Göttingen, a new generation of top researchers is emerging — thanks to a concept that is unique in Germany. The HSC is part of the Cluster of Excellence “Multiscale Bioimaging: From Molecular Machines to Networks

Rabea Hinkel and Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann discuss the heart patch on the Leibniz Association’s “Tonspur Wissen” podcast   More than three million people in Germany suffer from heart failure, often caused by calcified coronary arteries and associated heart attacks, which cause lasting damage to the heart muscle tissue. Treatment options have

Dr. Maria-Patapia Zafeiriou will take up the Else Kröner Professorship in Disease Modeling at the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Neuropediatrics, University Medical Center Göttingen, on June 1, 2026.   A core component of the professorship’s research is neuronal and inner-ear organoids derived from human induced pluripotent