A team including physicists from the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ has succeeded in using atomic force microscopy to clearly obtain images of individual impurity atoms in graphene ribbons.
A new method enables genes in living T-cells in mice to be modified quickly and efficiently. It makes use of plasmids, a tried-and-tested method of genetic engineering. Researchers from the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ reported these findings in the Journal of Immunology.
An international team of researchers has discovered a new anti-cancer protein. The protein, called LHPP, prevents the uncontrolled proliferation of cancer cells in the liver and can also serve as a biomarker for the diagnosis and prognosis of liver cancer.
For the first time, an interdisciplinary team from the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ has succeeded in integrating artificial organelles into the cells of living zebrafish embryos. This innovative approach using artificial organelles as cellular implants offers new potential in treating a range of diseases.
Researchers at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ made an important step toward a deeper understanding of how malaria blood stage parasites turn the switch to become transmissible to other humans.
A newly-discovered hereditary mutation is responsible for an increased production of erythropoietin (EPO) in the blood. This mutation causes a messenger RNA (mRNA) that is not normally involved in the formation of proteins to be reprogrammed so that it produces EPO, thus abnormally increasing the number of red blood cells.
With every infection or vaccination, memory cells form that the body uses to remember the pathogen. This has been known for decades – but the structure of this cellular immunologic memory has previously proven impossible to pin down. Researchers from the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ and University Hospital Basel have now identified a microanatomical region in memory cells that enables them to work rapidly in the first few hours of an immune response, as they report in the journal Immunity.
In 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sending a rover into space to examine the surface of Mars for signs of life. Its on-board equipment includes a high-resolution camera developed in Switzerland, and researchers from the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ are currently testing the camera’s operation in an artificial Martian landscape.
Cellular energy metabolism also follows the rhythm of the circadian clock. A ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ study has now shown exactly how this works by revealing the relationship between the circadian rhythm and the mitochondrial network for the first time.
