Mice with a lower calorie intake live longer and are both healthier and leaner. A team of researchers may have found the reason for this positive effect: much of it is down to gut microbial communities and how they affect the immune system.

In collaboration with a nature reserve in Namibia, researchers are developing a new approach to counting animals: combining drone flights and automated image analysis.

Doctors are increasingly fighting cancer by stimulating patients' immune systems. SNSF-supported researchers have now discovered a method for predicting the likelihood of treatment success.

Researchers have discovered novel, antibiotically active chemical substances in a previously rarely explored site: the leaf of a common field weed.

Researchers have developed a new technique for carving materials to create micromechanical systems.

Social opposition to new high-voltage lines is delaying modernisation of the power grid.