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Moving from mitochondrial research to stem cell biology gave Alessandro Prigione new tools and perspectives. Now he has made a model of mitochondrial disease from stem cells with promising results.

The 3D landscapes of the genome have to change all the time. Otherwise genes would not be expressed properly and physiology would be in disarray. Ana Pombo’s group is mapping this genomic regulation.

In mammalian embryos, crucial tissues are produced from a group of cells that are scarce and only exist for a very short time. Now, researchers have deciphered their molecular signature.

Only a few years ago it was dismissed as impossible. Now it is the research subject of MDC alumnus Prof. Gerd Kempermann: the self-regenerating brain. Kempermann is studying the function of brain stem cells in the learning process and how and why an active life makes mice (and people) mentally fit.

4 degrees Celsius and not a lot of oxygen: under adverse environmental conditions human muscle stem cells – the so-called satellite cells – revert back to their survival mode.

Magdalena Götz will give a public lecture entitled „Mechanisms of Neurogenesis – from Glial Cells to...

MDC group leader Michael Sieweke has been appointed as one of two “Einstein BIH Visiting Fellows” under a funding program by the Berlin Institute of Health.

450 scientists met at the 2nd International Annual Conference of the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) in Heidelberg

“The intestine is a fantastic organ for researching the interplay among different signaling pathways”, says Dr. Julian Heuberger of the largest human organ.

The MDC together with the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) has now created a stem cell core facility to offer expertise to derive and manipulate iPSC lines for groups from the institute or projects associated with the BIH.