Learning ‒ teaching ‒ sparking enthusiasm May 2015 She definitely didn’t want to become a teacher. Yet she is one. For 15 years, Anja Renold has been teaching at the Gymnasium Bäumlihof in Basel. Since 2008, she is also the…

Interview with Seraphine Lüscher She practically adopted the protein assigned to her in the Experimental Molecular Biology course. Being able to conduct experiments from A to Z already in her second year of studies was a…

Pioneers The transcription factors that specific cell fates Our body consists of 30 trillion cells that are organized into organs such as the liver, heart and kidneys. These specialized cells are generated in the embryo by a…

Most living organisms on our planet-whether plants, animals, or humans -contain mitochondria in their cells. Their main function is to supply energy for nearly all cellular processes. To achieve this, mitochondria use the…

Childhood dream: Becoming a scientist June 2025 Since she was a child, Ina Sonnen dreamed of becoming a cancer researcher. Although her academic career took a slightly different path, the topic of cancer has never quite left…

Research Projects Our team is comprised of people with different training: Some team members are trained in physics or mathematics, some are trained in molecular biology, and others are trained in interdisciplinary sciences…

Every single cell of our body contains hundreds of tiny power plants, the mitochondria, which produce the energy required by the body, whether it be for walking, digesting or to ponder ideas. This inevitably generates…

From block course to cooking class. July 2018 In the block course they were simply known as the Nirvanas. Twenty years on, in a cooking class, their hair now short, yet each slipped back into his old role. The Biozentrum…

Biozentrum World Alumni Day, June 23, 2023 Dear Biozentrum Alumni, Do you ever wonder what your former Biozentrum colleagues and friends are up to? What is happening at the Biozentrum now? What does the new building look…

May 15th, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Prof. Eduard Kellenberger. The physicist has not only gone down in the history and textbooks as a pioneer of electron microscopy but also as an early representative…