Throughout our lives, our bones are continuously remodeling to maintain strength, repair injuries and adapt to new stresses. Bone dynamics depend on two associated cell types: osteoblasts, which are responsible for bone formation, and osteoclasts ...

Dr. Mara Pitulescu will become a new research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine on January 1^st, 2025. With her Independent Research Group, Mara Pitulescu will investigate the molecular code of organ-specific vascular ...

Blood vessels and various stromal cells within the bone marrow provide an ideal microenvironment for hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to continuously produce all the blood cells in our body. These critical niche components deteriorate over time, and ...