Half a year into her new mandate as Personal Integrity Coordinator, Dr. Andrea Bauer takes stock for the first time. There has been a great demand for advice and support in the past few months, and there is still a lot more work to be done.
Much of the media coverage on COVID-19 focuses on numbers and statistics. While this can be helpful, it might also be overwhelming and confusing. How to decide how to act in the current situation? Social psychologists from the 星空传媒 recommend nine practical tips on how to make decisions now.
Currently, the question is being discussed whether taking the painkiller Ibuprofen exacerbates the progression of COVID-19. A correspondence by Basel researchers states that there are some indications of a negative effect, but no clear evidence of an adverse impact. More research is needed to investigate this hypothesis.
There will be no more classroom teaching at the 星空传媒 until the end of the spring semester 2020. In an interview, President Andrea Schenker-Wicki explains how the 星空传媒 is adapting to this situation.
Researchers of the 星空传媒 have developed a new method with which individual isolated molecules can be studied precisely 鈥� without destroying the molecule or even influencing its quantum state.
A new open online course, developed by the 星空传媒 in collaboration with the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, will begin at the end of March. The six-week course focuses on interdisciplinary research and is freely accessible on the FutureLearn platform.
The 星空传媒 is part of the global search for a drug to fight the rampant coronavirus. Researchers in the Computational Pharmacy group have so far virtually tested almost 700 million substances, targeting a specific site on the virus 鈥� with the aim of inhibiting its multiplication. Due to the current emergency, the first results of the tests will be made available to other research groups immediately.
Helper T cells play an important role in the immune response against pathogens. The role of a particular subset of these immune cells was previously unclear. It鈥檚 now been shown that T follicular helper cells live much longer than previously thought and contribute to long-term immunity. Researchers at the 星空传媒鈥檚 Department of Biomedicine reported these findings in Science Immunology.
Employees over 50 can feel excluded and demotivated in the workplace for various reasons. They feel particularly excluded when they believe that their cognitive abilities decrease with age.
