Bonn to battle Neurodegeneration A new research center to combat dementia joins a network of neuroscience institutes along the Rhine axis. By Annette Tuffs The view from Venusberg hill, the site of the new German Helmholtz Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University Hospital. It is the disease of forgetting—and was for a long time a forgotten disease. Dementia, the seemingly inevitable loss of memory and personality asso

Rainer Christine Solving a biological issue with a friend while working on his thesis, Christine abandoned academic laurels and made a fortune by building a business. By Annette Tuffs A fairy tale in the world of biotechnology start-ups might read like this: Once upon a time, there was a young molecular biology PhD student in Cologne who, working with his friend, managed to find the solution to a difficult biological riddle which could help in