Medicine and Life Sciences

New research offers potential benefits for those affected by the hereditary metabolic disease methylmalonic aciduria. By combining the results of multiple molecular analyses, scientists can better diagnose this rare and severe disease. In the future, an improved understanding of the disease might also improve treatment options.
Shrimps, flies and other animals shed their outer body covering at specific times of the year or at specific points in their life cycles through a process called molting. Working in worms, FMI researchers identified the mechanisms underlying a molecular 'molting clock' — as well as several of the clock's components. The findings may help to shed light onto skin development and regeneration in other animals, including mammals.
The Experimental Therapeutics group , directed by Prof. Carlo V. Catapano at the Institute of Oncology Research (IOR, affiliated to USI and member of Bios+), in collaboration with Prof. Jonathan Hall at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH, Zurich) identified a novel mechanism for the treatment of hepatic disorders of abnormal lipid deposition.
The USI-affiliated Institute of Oncology Research (IOR) has reached a licensing agreement with BIMINI Biotech, a startup from the Netherlands, to acquire and further develop a novel first-in-class Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome protein (WASp) activator.
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Links - Life Sciences
- BioAlps - The life science cluster of Western Switzerland
- Swiss Biotech Association
- Philip Morris International
- Biotechnology Institute Thurgau
- Geneva Natural History Museum
- Basel Natural History Museum
- Bern Natural History Museum
- Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich
- Papiliorama
- Vogelwarte, Swiss Ornithological Institute
- Swiss Plant Science
- School of Life Sciences, SV
- FHNW - School of Life Sciences
- ZHAW - Life Sciences and Facility Management
Links - Health
- Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences
- Krebsliga
- Liguecancer
- Swiss Public Health
- AO Foundation
- Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva
- Lausanne University Hospital
- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
- Geneva University Hospital, HUG
- Bern University Hospital, Inselspital
- Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB)
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine
- Institut de Recherche en Ophtalmologie
- Cantonal Hospital St.Gallen
- Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences
- Swiss Paraplegics Research
- Swiss TPH
- University Hospital Basel
- University Hospital Zurich
- Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering