University of Basel

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The University of Basel is a university which performs excellently in research and teaching. Founded in 1460, Switzerland’s oldest university has over 550 years of successful history.

As a university offering a wide range of quality education, it attracts students from Switzerland and all around the world and offers them excellent study conditions at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level. Today, the University of Basel counts around 13,000 students coming from over one hundred nations.

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How neuromuscular connections are maintained after nerve lesions

Life Sciences - Jul 25
Life Sciences
After nerve injury, the protein complex mTORC1 takes over an important function in skeletal muscle to maintain the neuromuscular junction, the synapse between the nerve and muscle fiber. Reserchers at the University of Basel's Biozentrum have now shown that the activation of mTORC1 must be tightly balanced for a proper response of the muscle to nerve injury.
Life Sciences - Jul 25

One or the other: Why strength training might come at the expense of endurance muscles

Life Sciences

The neurotransmitter brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) acts in the muscle, so that during strength training endurance muscle fiber number is decreased.

Life Sciences - Jul 25

Entweder - Oder: Warum Krafttraining auf Kosten der Ausdauermuskeln geht

Life Sciences

Der Botenstoff brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) sorgt im Muskel dafür, dass beim Krafttraining die Ausdauermuskulatur verringert wird.

Physics - Jul 19

Bessere Wärmeleitfähigkeit durch geänderte Atomanordnung

Physics

Die Anpassung der Wärmeleitfähigkeit von Materialien ist eine aktuelle Herausforderung in den Nanowissenschaften.

Life Sciences - Jul 25

Wie sich zerstörte Nervenbahnen im Muskel regenerieren

Life Sciences

Nach einer Verletzung der neuromuskulären Endplatte, der Verbindung zwischen Nervenund Muskelfaser, übernimmt der Proteinkomplex mTORC1 eine wichtige Funktion bei der Heilung.

Physics - Jul 19

Better thermal conductivity by adjusting the arrangement of atoms

Physics

Adjusting the thermal conductivity of materials is one of the challenges nanoscience is currently facing.

Health - Jul 17

Leukemia: how cancer stem cells suppress a danger detector

Health

Acute myeloid leukemia stem cells elude the body's immune cells by deactivating a danger detector.

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