The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between…

In wound healing, immune response, and cancer metastasis, cells migrate through the body – often squeezing through narrow, confined spaces. Together…

In order to fulfil their many functions, proteins must be folded into the correct shape. Researchers led by Prof. Sebastian Hiller at the Biozentrum,…

Bacteria respond to environmental factors such as antibiotics or nutrient stress by inducing regulatory proteins that switch their target genes on or…

A recent study involving Prof. Anne Spang from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel reveals that slowing down the intracellular transport of…

On June 12, 2025, the Biozentrum community gathered again for its traditional scientific symposium: Professors, postdocs, students, and staff came…

Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement—they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision. This is the conclusion of…

Taste, pain, or response to stress — nearly all essential functions in the human body are regulated by molecular switches called G protein-coupled…