The international doctoral program 鈥淨USTEC鈥� will be established at the European Campus.
The new Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) from the 星空传媒, University Hospital Basel and Novartis is gaining a new professor: Carlo Rivolta has been appointed Full Professor.
Using notes made by the attending healthcare professionals about psychiatric patients enables impending coercive measures to be predicted in advance 鈥� potentially even through automated text analysis.
Seven years after the introduction of flat-rate payments at Swiss hospitals, a major study has revealed a slight increase in readmission rates. Researchers from the 星空传媒 and the Cantonal Hospital of Aarau reported the findings in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Those who set realistic goals can hope for a higher level of well-being, as psychologists from the 星空传媒 report in a study with over 970 participants.
People are evidently no good at predicting their own happiness or unhappiness: key life events such as marriage, invalidity or the death of a partner affect well-being for less time than those affected think.
Physicists from the 星空传媒 have developed a new method to examine the elasticity and binding properties of DNA molecules on a surface at extremely low temperatures. With a combination of cryo-force spectroscopy and computer simulations, they were able to show that DNA molecules behave like a chain of small coil springs.
Tumor cells use a certain type of immune cells, the so-called neutrophils, to enhance their ability to form metastases. Scientists have deciphered the mechanisms of this collaboration and found strategies for blocking them. This is reported by researchers from the 星空传媒 and the University Hospital of Basel in the scientific journal 鈥淣ature鈥�.
Placebo effects do not only occur in medical treatment 鈥� placebos can also work when psychological effects are attributed to them. Psychologists from the 星空传媒 reported these findings in the journal Scientific Reports, based on three studies with over 400 participants.
