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What are you reading, Prof. Rajewsky?
Nikolaus Rajewsky is deputy director of the MDC and director of the Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) at the MDC in Berlin-Mitte. He researches right down to the level of single cells how and why genes are switched on or off in healthy and diseased cells. Nikolaus Rajewsky recommends humankind’s oldest written myth – the Epic of Gilgamesh, as well as a text by Walter Benjamin (philosopher, writer, cultural critic; born 1892 in Berlin, died 1940 in Portbou, Spain) – together with a picture by Paul Klee ("Angelus Novus", painted in 1920).