Genetic mutations are among the central causes of numerous diseases – from cardiovascular disease to cancer. However, in order to really understand the consequences of these mutations, new genetic tools allowing a higher resolution analysis at the ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A groundbreaking international study, led by Hans Schöler of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, has now refuted this ...

Windie Höfs, postdoctoral researcher in Sara Wickström's department at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, is a fellow in the Zia program 2024/2025. The fellowship program "Visible Women in Science" of ZEIT Verlag, networks and ...