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MBExC member Prof. Dr. Urs Valentin Nägerl, Director of the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) since 1 September 2024, has been awarded the first “Lower Saxony Professorship”. The funding line of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen

Ceremonial opening of the new Heart & Brain Center Göttingen (HBCG) of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) on 22 August 2024. The federal government and the state of Lower Saxony are investing around 38 million euros in the new building. Research groups work in an interdisciplinary manner on cutting-edge

Scientists from Martinsried and Göttingen have analyzed protein folding helpers, so-called chaperonin complexes, in their natural environment using cryo-electron tomography.   Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET for short, can be used to visualize and analyze cellular structures in their natural environment. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in

Research team including Göttingen University develops high-resolution fluorescence microscope   What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Oxford, in collaboration with the University Medical

Research team at the University of Göttingen develops method for recognizing cell properties   Checking whether an avocado is hard or soft by looking at it? This would require recognizing how the plant cells behave behind the skin. The same applies to all other cells on our planet: Despite more

Female mammals – including humans – are born with all of their egg cells. Of a woman’s one to two million egg cells, about 400 mature before menopause and can be fertilized. Some egg cells therefore survive for several decades – and need to remain functional over this long time.

Special exhibition at the Forum Wissen   How does a “patch” for the heart work? Can we hear with light? And how can insights from basic research be used to help diagnose and treat diseases? The “Heart & Brain – understanding together” exhibition examines these and related questions between these

Following the launch of the German Centre for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) at the beginning of June, children and teenagers are now to be actively involved in the centre’s research and organisation. Young people can and should have a say in health issues – that is the aim of

After twelve years, funding for the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1002 “Modulatory Units in Heart Failure”, which is based at the Heart Centre of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), will end on 30 June 2024. New diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for the treatment of heart failure were developed and

In a study with 991 adults, scientists at DZNE show that the most common forms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) as well as the neurological diseases amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) can be recognised by blood testing. Their procedure is not yet ready for routine medical use,