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Welcome Jana!
A warm welcome to Jana Tünnermann that has just joined the MBM group as an intern. Jana is a master …
Cut it, but not so fast!
Blood clotting is an amazing biological process in which injured blood vessels are plugged by platelets –flowing in our blood stream– …
Welcome Sara!
A warm welcome to Sara Becker that has just joined the MBM group as an intern. Sara is a master …
On YouTube: Floppy keys – how the communication in the cell works
This new Youtube clip was produced by the Cluster of Excellence CellNetworks with researchers from EMBL and HITS. The project was …
Dynamic disorder can explain non-exponential kinetics of fast protein mechanical unfolding
Dr. Bogdan Costescu et al. unfolded a protein in the computer thousands of times – and successfully detected signatures that hint …
Welcome Lena!
A warm welcome to Lena Thärichen that has just joined the MBM group as an intern. Lena is a master …
Welcome Agnieszka!
A warm welcome to Agnieszka Obarska-Kosinska that just joined the MBM group as a postdoctoral fellow from Poland. Agnieszka did her …
Made by nature: a highly elastic pressurized balloon
Collagens constitute the dominant class of extracellular proteins in multicellular organisms. They are highly abundant wherever high elasticity is needed. The …
Welcome Vedran!
A warm welcome to Vedran Miletić that just joined the MBM group as a postdoctoral fellow from Croatia. Verdan has …
Mechanosensing of focal adhesion kinase
Why do astronauts suffer from bone loss? Astronauts lose bone mass because of the low gravity in space. Bones need mechanical …
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