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Life Sciences - Computer Science - 02.10.2024
Modeling the minutia of motor manipulation with AI
Modeling the minutia of motor manipulation with AI
An AI research collaboration led by EPFL professor Alexander Mathis creates a model which provides deep insights into hand movement, which is an essential step for the development of neuroprosthetics and rehabilitation technologies.

Health - Life Sciences - 02.10.2024
Promising Genotyping Technique for Assessing Antimalarial Drug Efficacy
Promising Genotyping Technique for Assessing Antimalarial Drug Efficacy
To estimate the efficacy of antimalarial drugs, distinguishing recurring from new infections is crucial. Researchers from Swiss TPH have now compared five genotyping methods to make this distinction and assessed their impact on drug efficacy. The results, published yesterday in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet Microbe, could help confirm antimalarial resistance and inform WHO guidelines.

Astronomy / Space - 01.10.2024
A sub-Earth detected around our neighbouring star Barnard
A sub-Earth detected around our neighbouring star Barnard
A team of scientists including researchers from the University of Bern, the University of Geneva and the NCCR PlanetS used the ESPRESSO Spectrograph to discover a sub-Earth mass exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the second-closest star system to the Sun. This discovery helps to understand planetary formation around red dwarfs and provides insights into the diversity of planetary systems in our cosmic neighbourhood.

Economics - 01.10.2024
Public Discourse Promotes Socially Responsible Behavior
Public discourse campaigns often promote social responsibility, but do such discussions also impact our market behavior? Economists at the University of Zurich have published a new study that shows that engaging in public discourse increases socially responsible market behavior - regardless of participants' social norms and values.

Health - Pharmacology - 01.10.2024
Stardust in the bathroom
Stardust in the bathroom
Widespread skin diseases such as psoriasis or neurodermatitis are difficult to treat. Together with an industrial partner, researchers have found an innovative solution: Nanoceramic "stars" create tiny skin lesions and allow therapeutic molecules to reach their site of action. When material scientists look into the stars, they may be able to recognize the future - namely when it comes to stars made of nanoceramics.

Health - Life Sciences - 30.09.2024
New target to treat severe autoimmune disease
New target to treat severe autoimmune disease
Researchers at the University of Basel have made significant progress in understanding a rare but serious immune disease. The team has uncovered critical mechanisms involved in the cellular recycling process, thus providing novel therapeutic approaches. LRBA deficiency is a rare and severe autoimmune disorder that was first described in 2012.

Environment - 30.09.2024
Cities influence precipitation and experience more intense thunderstorms than other regions.
Cities influence precipitation and experience more intense thunderstorms than other regions.
A new study from the University of Lausanne reveals how cities influence precipitation and storms, and are prone in summer to more severe and localized rainfall events than surrounding areas. This phenomenon could lead to an increased risk of flooding in the future, as urban areas expand in line with global warming.

Life Sciences - Health - 27.09.2024
How a protein keeps gene clusters quiet in the cell nucleolus
In a discovery that sheds light on the complex mechanisms of gene regulation, scientists at EPFL have uncovered a critical role for the protein ZNF274 in keeping certain gene clusters turned off by anchoring them to the cell nucleolus. Our DNA is not just a string of genes; it's a complex and dynamic structure where the spatial organization within the nucleus plays a crucial role in regulating which genes are turned on or off.

Pharmacology - 26.09.2024
Kidney stones are often excreted without pain
A research team led by Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and the University of Bern has shown that a high percentage of kidney stones are excreted without symptoms. This finding should be incorporated into the future treatment of patients with recurrent kidney stones. Kidney stones are caused by the deposition of minerals and salts in the kidneys and can lead to severe pain when passing through the urinary tract.

Health - Pharmacology - 26.09.2024
Unexpected immune response may hold key to long-term cancer remission
Unexpected immune response may hold key to long-term cancer remission
Results from a preclinical study in mice, led by EPFL, and a collaborative clinical study in patients show that the type 2 immune response - associated with parasitic infection and thought to play a negative role in cancer immunity - is positively correlated with long-term cancer remission. In 2012, 7-year-old Emily Whitehead became the first pediatric patient to receive pioneering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) therapy to fight the recurrence of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

Health - Life Sciences - 26.09.2024
Programming cells to target brain tumours
Programming cells to target brain tumours
Scientists from the University of Geneva and HUG have developed CAR-T cells capable of targeting malignant gliomas while preserving healthy tissue. Glioblastoma is the most common and most aggressive primary brain tumour, with an average survival after diagnosis of less than two years, and against which current treatments remain ineffective.

Health - 26.09.2024
Signs of developing asthma are evident in the first year of life
Signs of developing asthma are evident in the first year of life
What factors lead to chronic respiratory disease? Researchers investigated this question using health data from about 780 infants. Their analysis shows that children's risk of developing asthma later in life can be more reliably predicted by observing the dynamic development of symptoms during the first year of life.

Agronomy / Food Science - Astronomy / Space - 26.09.2024
Crop forecasting from space
Crop forecasting from space
ETH spin-off Terensis is able to forecast the harvest yield and climate risks such as droughts and frost with the help of satellites.

Physics - 25.09.2024
NA62 experiment at CERN observes ultra-rare particle decay
Geneva, 25 September 2024. At a seminar held at CERN this week, the NA62 collaboration reported the unequivocal confirmation of the ultra-rare decay of a positively charged kaon into a positively charged pion and a neutrino-antineutrino pair. Experiments including NA62 have previously measured and seen evidence of this process, but this is the first time it has been measured with a statistical significance of five standard deviations , crossing the threshold traditionally required to claim a discovery in particle physics.

Social Sciences - Psychology - 25.09.2024
Self-Esteem Boosts Sexual Well-Being - and Vice Versa
Self-Esteem Boosts Sexual Well-Being - and Vice Versa
A long-term study by the Universities of Zurich and Utrecht has confirmed a dynamic correlation between self-esteem and sexual satisfaction. The results provide valuable insights about longstanding questions about whether better sex makes you feel better, feeling better makes you have better sex, or both.

Life Sciences - 25.09.2024
How a butterfly invasion minimizes genetic diversity
How a butterfly invasion minimizes genetic diversity
Until a few years ago, the butterfly known as the southern small white could barely be found north of the Alps. That was before a Europe-wide invasion that brought a huge increase in the insect's distribution - at the same time as a rapid decrease in genetic diversity within the species. It took a while for zoologist Daniel Berner to notice that a butterfly species that wasn't local to his area had become established in his garden.

Civil Engineering - 25.09.2024
AI helps detect and monitor infrastructure defects
Thanks to recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), civil engineers can inspect large-scale infrastructure more efficiently and cost-effectively, while also monitoring the progression of damage severity over time. A team of researchers has demonstrated the feasibility of an AI-driven method for crack detection, growth and monitoring, and will soon test it on the railway section between Zermatt and Brig in Valais Canton.

Health - Pharmacology - 24.09.2024
Medicine and equal opportunities, an increasingly topical duo
Antonio Landi, PhD assistant at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and winner of USI Equal Opportunities Award 2024 for scientific contributions on topics of equality and diversity , presented his research to us, providing a comprehensive examination of gender medicine. Antonio Landi, could you please explain the research you conducted and the results it led to? "The study, published in JAMA Cardiology, aimed to analyse the impact of gender on optimal drug therapy in patients with coronary atherosclerotic disease undergoing angioplasty with coronary stent placement.

Life Sciences - 24.09.2024
Yeast chit-chat: How microorganisms talk food shortages
Yeast chit-chat: How microorganisms talk food shortages
To grow and survive, tiny organisms such as yeast must sometimes adapt their nutrient sources in response to changes in the environment. FMI researchers have now found that yeast cells communicate with each other to use less favorable nutrients if they foresee a shortage of their favorite food. This communication is facilitated by secreted molecules that interact with a protein in mitochondria, the cells' energy factories.

Life Sciences - Health - 23.09.2024
Compact ’Gene Scissor’ Enables Effective Genome Editing
CRISPR-Cas is used broadly in research and medicine to edit, insert, delete or regulate genes in organisms. TnpB is an ancestor of this well-known "gene scissor" but is much smaller and thus easier to transport into cells. Using protein engineering and AI algorithms, researchers have now enhanced TnpB capabilities to make DNA editing more efficient and versatile, paving the way for treating a genetic defect for high cholesterol in the future.