Cancer cells employ a variety of strategies to evade the immune system, and modern immunotherapies aim precisely at these escape mechanisms. However, such therapies are not always successful. A research team led by Herbert Waldmann at the Max Planck ...

Cancer cells are pretty bold and clever - they highjack cellular survival and healing processes in order to fuel their grow, spread throughout the body, and ensure their own survival. The unfolded protein response (UPR), that protects cells against ...

'Drink your milk and you will have strong bones and healthy teeth'. We’ve all heard this advice. It's supposed to help us meet our bodies' high calcium requirements. However, our cells keep calcium levels as low as possible at all times. They achieve ...

Cell division is one of the most thoroughly studied processes in biology, yet many of its details remain mysterious. A century-old puzzle surrounding the “crown” of cell division – the kinetochore corona – has now been solved by Verena Cmentowski and ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell’s nucleus, explaining why it must be constantly folded and packaged. When it is time for cell division, and the genetic information needs to be passed on to the ...