The European Research Council (ERC) has honoured the outstanding research of Director Ralf Adams from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Molecular Biomedicine with an "ERC Advanced Grant". With the coveted five-year grant, the biochemist is ...

Conditions affecting the arterial vasculature, including myocardial infarction, stroke and coronary artery disease, present pressing challenges in global health. Yet, despite strides in medical science, the complex mechanisms underlying artery ...

After the discovery of the reprogramming of somatic cells using transcription factors in 2006, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines have so far been produced for only a few animal species. Moreover, the generated iPS cells vary greatly in ...