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NewScientist

Stone Age network reveals ancient Paris was an artisanal trading hub

...Denis at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Nanterre and Michael Kempf at the University of Basel in Switzerland have reconstructed the lengthy and winding paths taken to supply people...

Science Alert

Boosting Exercise Intensity Reduces Mortality Risk, Study Suggests

...your body when you exercise matters more than squeezing in another session. Researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland and the University of Leicester in the UK have shown the intensity of your...

Quantum Insider

University of Basel And QuantumBasel Join Forces For Quantum Computing Innovation in Switzerland

The University of Basel and QuantumBasel are collaborating to develop the Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence into a global center of excellence for quantum computing, enhancing the region’s research and industrial applications.

Glamour (UK)

Why a full moon might mess with your sleep, according to science

...according to lead study author Christian Cajochen, PhD, head of the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland: Around the full moon, people took five minutes longer to fall asleep, had...

phys.org

Protein shell discovery reveals how diatoms capture CO₂ so effectively

by University of Basel Diatoms (blue/white/yellow) frozen on an electron microscopy grid (copper) during a sample preparation step for cryo-electron tomography. Credit: Benoit Gallet and Martin Oeggerli,...

huffingtonpost.co.uk

Doing This When You Wake Up Can Help You Adjust To Clocks Going Back

...Speaking to The Guardian, Dr Christine Blume, a sleep scientist at the Centre for Chronobiology of the University of Basel, seemed to agree. “We get information about the time in the environment through our eyes,”...

The Psychologist

Five ways ‘honest’ placebos can help

However, some people suffer disproportionate and debilitating feelings of guilt, even when they've done nothing wrong. In 2022, Dilan Sezer at the University of Basel and colleagues reported work that suggests non-deceptive placebos may also be able to help with this.

Scientific American

A Century-Old Question Is Still Revealing Answers in Fundamental Math

...Technology, Ziyang Gao of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Philipp Habegger of the University of Basel in Switzerland, who were collaborators, and Lars Kühne of University College Dublin, who...

swissinfo (engl.)

An artefact returns to Namibia from Switzerland

...Swiss people also settled in Namibia. According to Dag Henrichsen, a Namibian researcher at the University of Basel, they worked as farmers, traders, craftsmen and engineers. Legal disputes over restitution...

bionity.com (eng.)

New target to treat severe autoimmune disease

Researchers at the University of Basel have made significant progress in understanding a rare but serious immune disease. The team has uncovered critical mechanisms involved in the cellular recycling process,...

gettotext.com

Still awake? The sleep expert gives six tips for falling asleep well – News

...box Close the people box Christine Blume has a doctorate in psychology and sleep research at the University of Basel. She is particularly interested in the influence of modern society on sleep. Tip No. 1:...

ScienceDaily

How a butterfly invasion minimizes genetic diversity

...southern small white standardized local populations of its own species," says Dr. Daniel Berner of the University of Basel. Together with researchers from the University of Greifswald and the Senckenberg German...

Online Newswires

Translation-X secures €160K for Autism Spectrum Disorder research

...target core symptoms of disorders such as Autism by targeting selective mRNA translation. Biozentrum University of Basel spin-out Translation-X has received a further CHF 150,000 (€160,000) from Venture Kick...

IOC

Meet five Olympians who left their mark on the world…literally

...World Sports Awards on five occasions. Federer was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the University of Basel Faculty of Medicine, named number on the list of 100 Most Influential People of 2018 by...

The Business Standard

New Swiss central bank chief takes charge in shadow of Credit Suisse trauma

...that Swiss authorities, including the SNB, were not sufficiently prepared for this looming crisis," Basel University's Yvan Lengwiler, a member of the SNB Observatory group which studies the central bank,...

dw.com (en.)

How Turkey is competing with China for influence in Africa

...Africa without giving a timeframe for reaching the target. Ufuk Tepebas, who was a researcher at the University of Basel's Center for African Studies, says setting targets is one thing, but it is more necessary...

Daily Express

Archaeology breakthrough as world's oldest cheese found on mummy's necklace

...the dry grassland of Eurasia, added Fu. Shevan Wilkins, group leader of ancient proteins at the University of Basel in suggests it is the in existence. The biomolecular archaeologist said: "I can’t think...

popsci.com

World’s oldest preserved cheese found in necklaces on mummies in China

...ago,” says Shevan Wilkins, a biomolecular archeologist and group leader of ancient proteins at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Some studies have identified dairy residues on ceramic pots that are even...

journals.aps.org

Atomic Friction Defies Expectations

...that this frictional force can strengthen as the sliding velocity increases. Now Yiming Song at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and his colleagues have observed an even more intricate velocity dependence...

swissinfo (engl.)

Mark Pieth: ‘Switzerland muddles on with sanctions’

...the global commodities market away from Geneva. Mark Pieth is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Basel. He is well-known for spearheading initiatives to combat corruption and money laundering...

ScienceNews

A cell biologist is investigating the balance of brain flexibility, stability

...curiosity is one of her hallmarks as a scientist, says Peter Scheiffele, a neurobiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland and her former postdoc adviser. He remembers when Gomez, who had been studying...

EuroNews (engl.)

‘Common sense solution': How taxes on yachts and private jets could fund climate action

...find out just how bad, an international group of researchers led by Copenhagen Business School, the University of Basel and the University of Cambridge surveyed 4,000 people from Denmark, India, Nigeria and...

NewScientist

Snoring isn't just a nuisance, it's dangerous. Why can't we treat it?

In 2018, Serge Brand at the University of Basel in Switzerland and his colleagues published a study of 181 adults aged 40 to 60 who had been...

Le Monde

Current events in Germany show that there is no miracle solution when it comes to migration policy

Germany's change of course regarding the welcoming of foreigners seems neither totally credible nor realistic, and ends up strengthening the far-right, analyzed law professors Anne Jacquemet-Gauché and Nils Schaks in an article for 'Le Monde.'

Daily Mail

Ancient Roman military camp found hiding more than 7,000 feet in the sky that was a vantage spot during battle

...structure - which turned out to be a defensive wall - above the battlefield. Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland used Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) that uses lasers to measure height...

innovationnewsnetwork.com

Locating microplastics in Antarctica

Researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred-Wegener Institute have revealed that it takes precise analysis to answer the question of where microplastics originate. Microplastics can be found...

News Medical

ANNs can identify lung disease in preterm infants by analyzing sleep breathing patterns

...presented by Edgar Delgado-Eckert, adjunct professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel, and a research group leader at the University Children's Hospital, Switzerland. Bronchopulmonary...

phys.org

This year's $890,000 Balzan Prizes awarded for research on aging, restorative justice, climate crisis

...in its citation. Also honored was Michael N. Hall, an American-Swiss molecular biologist at the University of Basel's Biozentrum, for advancements in the study of aging. Hall, 71, was cited for identifying...

Washington Post

This year's $890,000 Balzan Prizes awared for research on aging, restorative justice, climate crisis

Also honored was Michael N. Hall, an American-Swiss molecular biologist at the University of Basel’s Biozentrum, for advancements in the study of aging. Hall, 71, was cited for identifying the role of two proteins central to the mechanism by which dietary restriction extends healthy lifespan.

ERC: European Research Council

ERC grantee wins Balzan Prize for research on biological mechanisms of ageing

Michael N. Hall from Biozentrum, University of Basel, has won the 2024 Balzan Prize for ‘groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms regulating cell growth.’

Mind Matters

Our Brains Store Memories Three Times, Just To Be Sure

A University of Basel experiment with mice reports a curious fact about memory: The memory of a specific experience is stored in multiple parallel “copies.”

nautil.us

Our Memories Are Stored in Triplicate

...experience. Log in or Join now . Now a team of researchers led by Flavio Donato, a neurobiologist at the University of Basel, has discovered an intricate system of parallel memory storage in the mouse brain that...

The Atlantic

The Most Personal Climate Case in the World

...high for determining a true climate victim, Andreas Müller, a professor of human-rights law at the University of Basel, told me. Virtually anyone can claim that their life is degraded by climate change, because,...

phys.org

AI meets biophysics: New approach identifies critical interaction points in cancer-related proteins

...- Auburn University Researchers at Auburn University, in collaboration with scientists from the University of Basel and ETH Zurich, have made an advance in the fight against cancer. The team, led by Dr....

swissinfo (engl.)

The mystery of Switzerland’s surging imports of Uzbek and Kazakh gold

...in order to be then sent out into the world market,” Mark Pieth, professor of criminal law at the University of Basel and a prominent anti-corruption expert, told SWI swissinfo.ch. Pieth is not alone in that...

allthatsinteresting.com

Roman Military Camp Discovered In The Swiss Alps At 7,200 Feet

...Discovery Of A Roman Military Camp In The Swiss Alps Since 2021, researchers and students from the University of Basel have worked in collaboration with the Archaeological Service of Graubünden to investigate...

Kronen Zeitung

Despite arrest warrant - Putin provokes with visit to Mongolia

"They will probably argue that it is unclear whether this obligation to cooperate also applies to heads of state of countries that have not recognized the ICC, such as Russia," said international law expert Andreas Müller from the University of Basel to the "Krone".

galaxus.ch

Swiss study: Toys record extensive data from children

...Toniebox or Tiptoi, behavioural data is already being collected in children's rooms. A new study by the University of Basel concludes that many offer too little privacy protection. And some collect more data than...

studyfinds.org

Your child’s smart toy is a data scientist. Here’s how it’s quietly watching and what it’s learning

Twelve toys were examined in a study on smart toys and privacy. (Credit: University of Basel / Céline Emch) BASEL, Switzerland — Remember when toys were simple? A stuffed animal was just a stuffed animal,...

Live Science

The brain stores at least 3 copies of every memory

...magenta in a cross section of a mouse hippocampus under a microscope. (Image credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel) Memories evolve throughout our lifetimes, changing as we learn and experience new things...

Time Magazine

How Simple Monitors Can Prevent Air Pollution-Related Illness

Air pollution is the world’s second-largest cause of death globally, leading to 8.1 million premature deaths annually from lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema, among other diseases.

finews.com

Peter Bernholz's Insight and Expertise Will Be Missed

...the cause of freedom in the public sphere. Peter Bernholz, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Basel, passed away on Saturday at the age of 95. His departure marks the end of a distinguished...

Physicsworld.com

Quantum oscillators fall in synch even when classical ones don’t – but at a cost

...“which in my opinion is an important question to ask,” says Christoph Bruder, a physicist at the University of Basel, Switzerland who was not involved in the study. To estimate the time it takes to synchronize,...

SELF

Why a Full Moon Might Mess With Your Sleep, According to Science

...according to lead study author Christian Cajochen, PhD , head of the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland: Around the full moon, people took five minutes longer to fall asleep, had...

neurosciencenews.com

Brain Stores Multiple Copies of Single Memory

...neurons store memories that can be easily modified shortly after an event but fade over time. Source: University of Basel The ability to turn experiences into memories allows us to learn from the past and use...

newatlas.com

Brain found to store three copies of every memory

...early-born neurons in magenta, which are responsible for creating a long-lasting copy of a memory University of Basel, Biozentrum Like a computer system with built-in redundancies, a study has revealed that...

medicalxpress.com

A new class of beige fat cells that burn energy via 'futile cycles' could lead to better metabolic health

...understand in detail how they work." The study, published in Cell Metabolism, was led by ETH Zurich, the University of Basel, the University of Leipzig Medical Center and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston....

The Past

Current Research in Egyptology: Beyond ethnicity

...and experiences. Marwan Kilani is a researcher for the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Basel. He was gained his PhD from Oxford University in 2017, and his current research focuses...

The Scientist

Moon Cycles and Menstrual Cycles

...across their lives, says Anna Wirz-Justice, a chronobiologist at the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel who was not involved with the study. “The uniqueness [of Helfrich-Förster’s investigation...

Nanowerk

2D layer of phosphorus pentamers shows semiconductor properties on silver surface

...of organisms and promises numerous electronic applications. With this in mind, researchers at the University of Basel have synthesized two-dimensional layers containing rings of five phosphorus atoms (phosphorus...

startupticker.ch

Bottneuro launches Priority Access Program after successful study

...treating patients with Alzheimer’s Disease in Switzerland. Bottneuro is a Medtech startup from the University of Basel, dedicated to transforming neurological treatments. Their innovative neuromodulation therapy,...

nknews.org

North Korea expert, missing for months, detained in Switzerland for espionage

...matter eventually to court,” Ralph Weber, an expert on Chinese operations in Switzerland at the University of Basel, told NK News. “If they do, one must assume that they have a solid case,” he said, suggesting...

The Microbiologist

Red Queen arms race over millions of years preserves genetic diversity in water flea

...the character in the book Alice in Wonderland who keeps running without getting anywhere. Source: University of Basel, Jason Andras Eggs are clearly visible in the healthy water flea of the species Daphnia...

Physicsworld.com

Spins hop between quantum dots in new quantum processor

...challenges that are as significant. Quantum dot qubits were proposed in 1998 by Daniel Loss of the University of Basel and David DiVicenzo, then at IBM. The qubit state is defined by the quantum state of a...

Psychology Today

The Duds of Linguistic Style

...words better.[xvii] Research by Jochim Hansen and Michaela Wänke at New York University and the University of Basel shows that when you communicate in sentences with specific action verbs, people also evaluate...

Technology Networks

New CRISPR Approach Enables “Seamless” Gene Insertions

...method must be both precise and efficient,” said Dr. Markus Affolter, professor at the the Biozentrum University of Basel and the study’s lead author. “The SEED/Harvest method is both. It combines the most robust...

swissinfo (engl.)

What does the renaissance of universal jurisdiction mean for global justice?

...international law lost momentum,” says Anna Petrig, professor for international law and public law at the University of Basel. She believes that the Cold War between the Eastern and Western blocs largely hampered...

International Tech Times

Noul publishes AI malaria diagnostic technology studies in international journal

...significant challenges for malaria eradication,” said Dr. Hans-Peter Beck, a malaria expert from the University of Basel, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, who participated in the study. “Noul's miLab...

perthnow.com.au

The pitfalls of believing love is all down to fate and the problems it causes if you don't make an effort

...over the two-year study compared to those who had strong growth beliefs. Dr Fabian Gander at the University of Basel, Switzerland, lead author of the study published in the European Journal of Personality,...

Ars Technica

Genetic cloaking of healthy cells opens door to universal blood cancer therapy

...cell or from a myeloid cell. It doesn't matter," transplantation immunologist Lukas Jeker of the University of Basel in Switzerland told Ars. "As long as it is a blood cell, we can use [the strategy], and...

Forbes (US)

The Push For A Universal Blood Cancer Therapy

...ultimately being able to target any form of blood cancer. At the end of May, researchers at the University of Basel published a study in Nature applying their approach in animal models and human cells. Using...

Forbes (US)

The 2024 Winners Of The Wolf Prize Have Been Announced

...Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science at the University of Basel, Switzerland According to the Wolf Foundation, "Professors Botond Roska and José-Alain...

swissinfo (engl.)

Switzerland leads the way in the fight against ‘unexplained’ wage gaps

...argument shows that statistics have their limits. Conny Wunsch, professor of labour economics at the University of Basel, summed it up for the Swiss German newspaper . “In fact, it is not possible to take all...

chemeurope.com

New method for determining exchange energy in 2D materials

Researchers from the University of Basel have looked at how the ferromagnetic properties of electrons in the two-dimensional semiconductor molybdenum disulfide can be better understood. They revealed a...

List 23

Does success in relationships depend on efforts or luck?

...research on well-being and personality, conducted by Fabian Gander, a research associate at the University of Basel, has been fascinating for a long time. He discovered that traits and well-being can change...

knowablemagazine.org

One fish, two fish, 3,000 fish ...

...chimpanzee,” says zoologist and evolutionary biologist Walter Salzburger of the Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland, and a coauthor of the overview. But there could still be significant variation...

MedPage Today

Neuromuscular Training Decreased Incidence of Chemo-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy

...compared with 70.6% for those receiving usual care (P=0.002), reported Fiona Streckmann, PhD, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues. Furthermore, results were more pronounced in a per-protocol...

healio.com

Physical exercise prevents nerve damage caused by chemotherapy

...such as pain, numbness, gait or balance instability,” Fiona Streckmann, PhD, research associate at University of Basel and the German Sport University Cologne, told Healio. “But this side effect not only affects...

medicalxpress.com

Physical exercise prevents nerve damage during chemotherapy, sports scientist shows

by University of Basel Sports therapy to combat side effects: Fiona Streckmann with a patient during a neurological examination. A tuning fork is used to test vibration sensation, which can be altered...

Daily Express

Simple change may slash chemotherapy side effects for cancer patients

...peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), these symptoms can become chronic for some patients. Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland recruited 158 people to test the benefits of regular exercise. All were...

swissinfo (engl.)

Magnitsky case: How Switzerland failed to investigate Russian millions

...what is Switzerland’s role in all of this?” As a professor of criminal law and criminology at the University of Basel, Pieth followed the case closely right from the start. He provided a formal testimony to...

BBC

The 'gene deserts' unravelling the mysteries of disease

...symptoms such as skin rashes and tiredness. Other research centres around the world such as the University of Basel in Switzerland are also examining how single inherited mutations in gene deserts could...

News Beezer

Where will the next pandemic come from? The list of hypotheses includes a deadly virus

...contact with humans makes the current H5N1 outbreak much more dangerous. Richard Neher from the University of Basel Prevention is the best medicine In view of the spread of the bird flu virus in cattle...

Msn International Edition

What If We Killed All Spiders?

...than five years due to food scarcity, other researchers are more skeptical. Scientists from the University of Basel claims spiders hunt more in deep, dark forests and undisturbed grasslands, and not so much...

Stanford Business School

Influencers Want Brands’ Sponsorship, But Not Their Rules

...Hofstetter open in new window of the University of Lucerne and Andreas Lanz open in new window of the University of Basel, Sahni decided to study the effects of ad contracts on influencer marketing. They had two...

dnyuz.com

How Flounder Wound Up With an Epic Side-Eye

...tried to do so with Dr. Betancur-R. and Emanuell Duarte-Ribeiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. They focused on certain DNA segments that they predicted would be more...

Labroots

Organoids Offer New Insights Into a Deadly Infection

...defense line and open the gate," explained study leader Professor Urs Jenal of the Biozentrum at the University of Basel. The pathogen uses secretion systems to attack and invade goblet cells. Once inside, the...

The Scientist

Plants Defend Themselves Against Heavy Metals

...accumulates less arsenic compared than other plant species,” said Klaus Schläppi, a plant biologist at the University of Basel. “The question was why.” Four years ago when Schläppi was at the University of Bern, he...

Associated Press

Windyty, S.E. Acquires Majority Stake in meteoblue, A.G.

...best visualization.” meteoblue founder Mathias Müller, added: “From our humble beginnings at the University of Basel to leading technological advancements in weather forecasting, meteoblue has always been...

The Sun

Swiss watch Who is Sandro Scharer? Meet the Swiss referee officiating at Euro 2024

...referee born on June 6, 1988. After completing high school, he studied sports and geography at the University of Basel. Before becoming a referee, Sandro initially worked as a substitute teacher at various...

uk.finance.yahoo.com

Race to appoint new Swiss central bank chief nears end

...credibility, which is the most important asset for a central bank," said Sarah Lein, an economist at the University of Basel. "It is going to be a challenging legacy for whoever takes over." The debate between...

sloanreview.mit.edu

The Long Tail of Social Media Influence

Paid influencers with the biggest follower counts may not give companies the most bang for their buck, research finds.

archaeology.org

Study Shows Bronze Age Cauldrons Held Blood and Milk

BASEL, SWITZERLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Basel, an international team of scientists has analyzed proteins recovered from residues in two 2,700-year-old bronze cauldrons...

scienmag.com

Fish out of water: How killifish embryos adapted their development

The annual killifish lives in regions with extreme drought. A research group at the University of Basel now reports in “Science” that the early embryogenesis of killifish diverges from that of other species....

Live Science

Humans didn't domesticate horses until 4,200 years ago — a millennium later than thought

...direct evidence quite neatly," Taylor said. Shevan Wilkin, a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland who was not involved in the study, told Live Science in an email that, although...

dw.com (en.)

Are scientists finally beating antimicrobial resistance?

...study is proof we can be optimistic about AMR, said Sebastian Hiller, a structural biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who was not involved in the research: "This is just one example of ongoing...

sciencealert.com

A Single Mutation Gave These Fish a Sense of Curiosity And Opened Up Their World

Cyphotilapia gibberosa is a particularly curious cichlid in Lake Tanganyika. (University of Basel, Adrian Indermaur) Curiosity is a curious thing. It can be dangerous, as the fabled cat learned too late,...

Belfast Telegraph

Looking at phone screen before bed is not as harmful to sleep as believed, study says

...blue lights from screens have any significant impact at all.” Earlier this year, a study by the University of Basel recorded similar findings and suggested that screen blue light does not greatly affect...

popsci.com

Bronze Age nomads used cauldrons for blood sausage and yak milk

...of large or major cities,” Shevan Wilkin, a study co-author and biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Basel and University of Zurich in Switzerland, tells Popular Science. “However, these herders...

The Conversation (Africa)

Sierra Leone’s bushmeat markets pose serious health hazards – we studied two for six months to find solutions

...focus on Ebola burials and Communication, Njala University Wahab Lawundeh Research Assistant, University of Basel Disclosure statement This project has received funding from the European Research Council...

Bioworld

Inhibiting metabolic enzyme prevents EBV-driven disease

...The findings, which were reported in the May 24, 2024, issue of Science by researchers from the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel, point to new ways to predict, prevent and treat complications...

swissinfo (engl.)

In South Africa, right-wing white populists do politics but not the elections

...Zyl-Hermann gave to one of her recent journal articles. The South African historian, who works at the University of Basel, has looked at the Solidarity Movement, among other things, and analysed what right-wing...

News Concerns

New approach to Epstein-Barr virus and resulting diseases

...latent infection and therefore the risk of downstream disease, as reported by researchers from the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel in the journal Science Exactly 60 years ago, pathologist...

techcodex.com

Revolutionary Qubit Technology Paves Way for Practical Quantum Computer

Advancements in qubit technology at the University of Basel show promise for scalable quantum computing , using electron and hole spins to achieve precise qubit control and interactions. The pursuit of...

bigthink.com

Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics

...unknown system is often unclear, especially when data are scarce. Researchers from MIT and the University of Basel in Switzerland applied generative artificial intelligence models to this problem, developing...

medicalxpress.com

Inhibiting a metabolic pathway provides new approach to Epstein-Barr virus and resulting diseases

by University of Basel html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" This electron microscopic image of two Epstein Barr Virus virions (viral particles)...

Associated Press

Hornet Therapeutics emerges from stealth with data published in Science demonstrating the first potential drug intervention for Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) driven disease

...Business Development at GlaxoSmithKline) and Professor Christoph Hess (Professor of Medicine at the University of Basel and Director of Experimental Medicine at the University of Cambridge). Professor Christoph...

bionity.com (eng.)

How immune cells recognize the abnormal metabolism of cancer cells

When cells become tumor cells, their metabolism changes fundamentally. Researchers at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel have now demonstrated that this change leaves traces that...

notebookcheck.net

Quantum computers on silicon chips: Millions of qubits possible

...astonishingly high computing power of such systems. It is therefore worth noting the report from the University of Basel, in which two of these holes, or rather their spins, not only behaved like classical bits,...

medicalxpress.com

Researchers develop new method to remove blood cells in leukemia patients while building new blood system

by University of Basel html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have developed an approach to "deleting"...

scitechdaily.com

Deciphering Physics: How MIT Uses AI to Answer the Unanswerable

A new machine-learning framework from MIT and the University of Basel that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials. When water freezes, it...

News Medical

Researchers decipher how immune cells spot cancer's turbocharged metabolism

When cells become tumor cells, their metabolism changes fundamentally. Researchers at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel have now demonstrated that this change leaves traces that...

Hoodline

MIT and University of Basel Researchers Innovate AI Framework to Classify Physical Systems' Phases

Boston/ Science, Tech & Medicine MIT and University of Basel Researchers Innovate AI Framework to Classify Physical Systems' Phases Source: Unsplash/ Steve Johnson Scientists have taken a leap into the...

The Wall Street Journal

Mystery in the Alps: A Chinese Family, a Swiss Inn and the World’s Most Expensive Weapon

The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service has only about five people dedicated to China, said Ralph Weber, a China expert and Mandarin speaker at the University of Basel. “The Swiss-China politics is just about not angering China in any way,” he said.

Knowledia News (US)

Scientists use generative AI to answer complex questions in physics

...efficient than existing machine-learning approaches. The work was led by researchers at MIT and the University of Basel. When water freezes, it transitions from a liquid phase to a solid phase, resulting in...

MIT Technology Review

A wave of retractions is shaking physics

...all of which sent editors to attend the conference. During a panel, physicist Henry Legg of the University of Basel in Switzerland called out the journal Physical Review B for publishing a paper on a quantum...

Securities

Understanding Qubits – Teleportation and Controlled Interaction Breakthroughs

...Transistor The other study, which was conducted by researchers from Switzerland's oldest university, the University of Basel, in collaboration with those from The National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR)...

medium.com

Switzerland's Freeports: Secure Havens for Art and Riches

...relating to the transfer of ownership. “The freeport is a mirror of what Switzerland does,” says a University of Basel tax law professor. The uniqueness of the situation is the thing that helps people escape...

swissinfo (engl.)

How Switzerland let an alleged mastermind of the genocide in Rwanda slip away

...extensive discussion about Switzerland’s role in Rwanda,” says historian Thanushiyah Korn of the University of Basel. But until the government lifts the veil on its past actions, this is all speculation,...

swissinfo (engl.)

Genocide in Rwanda: Swiss showed ‘ambivalence between words and actions’

...key lesson learnt from Rwanda, the SDC tells SWI swissinfo.ch. Historian Thanushiyah Korn of the University of Basel and the Institute for European Global Studies is currently examining Swiss actions in Rwanda...

medium.com

Quantum Computing Advances: Closer to Millions of Qubits Chips

...address symbolic problems, a quantum computer needs to have several million qubits. Physicists at the University of Basel have successfully developed a two-qubit logic gate in a silicon transistor. The prototypes...

World of Software

We are already one step closer to quantum chips with millions of qubits. This experiment is a success

...it possible to produce a chip capable of agglutinating many qubits. A group of researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland has taken this approach in an extraordinarily promising experiment. Spin...

studyfinds.org

Quantum breakthrough proves scientists can build million-qubit computer chips

...reliable and ultra-powerful quantum computer could finally be on the horizon. Researchers from the University of Basel and the NCCR SPIN in Switzerland have made an exciting advancement in the world of quantum...

interestingengineering.com

Million qubits chip a possibility, could enable practical quantum computers

...if practical quantum computers are to become a reality. Thanks to researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and The National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) SPIN, the first controllable...

ScienceDaily

Experiment opens door for millions of qubits on one chip

Researchers from the University of Basel and the NCCR SPIN have achieved the first controllable interaction between two hole spin qubits in a conventional silicon transistor. The breakthrough opens up the...

20min.ch

Gymnasiastin findet antibiotikaresistente Bakterien

...selbst Erfahrung mit Antibiotika gemacht? Im Sommer 2022 nahm ich an der Summer Science Academy der Uni Basel teil. Noch im selben Jahr habe ich einen Vortrag zum Thema Antibiotikaresistenz und deren Folgen...

Mirror

Killer squirrels spread fatal disease to people in medieval England, research finds

...animals in the Middle Ages in a way that hadn't been detected before. Prof Schuenemann, of the University of Basel, Switzerland, said: "The history of leprosy is far more complex than previously thought....

The Independent

Squirrels spread leprosy in 10th and 11th century England

...rodents in the Middle Ages. Verena Schuenemann, a professor for archaeological sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland, said the medieval red squirrel strain recovered is more closely related...

sciencealert.com

In Medieval England, Leprosy Jumped Between Squirrels And Humans

...history is incomplete until these hosts are considered," says archeologist Verena Schünemann from the University of Basel in Switzerland. The medieval city of Winchester was well-known for its squirrel fur trade,...

The Times

Did red squirrels spread leprosy in medieval England?

...during the medieval period. Squirrel bones were found in a waste pit in Winchester ALETTE BLOM/UNIVERSITY OF BASEL/PA Verena Schuenemann, of the University of Basel, who led the study, said: “With our...

Daily Mail

Leprosy spread between people and red SQUIRRELS in medieval England, study reveals

...trim and line garments. Many people at the time also kept squirrels as pets. The team, from the University of Basel and University of Leicester, analysed medieval strains of leprosy including one from a...

gizmodo.com

Leprosy in Medieval England Probably Came From Red Squirrels

...squirrels as the first ancient animal host of leprosy,” said Verena Schuenemann, an archaeologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland and the senior author of the study, in a Cell release. “The medieval red...

BBC

Squirrels may have given medieval Britons leprosy

“The history of leprosy is far more complex than previously thought,” said senior author of the study, Prof Verena Schünemann of the University of Basel in Switzerland.

Technology Networks

How Curiosity Drives Evolution

...and this trait can drive evolution. News Published: April 26, 2024 | Original story from the University of Basel Credit: Cofish Aquarium/ Unsplash Register for free to listen to this article Thank...

Science.org

A gene mutation turned these fish into intrepid explorers

...University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the new study, Walter Salzburger, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Basel, and his colleagues used 4.5-meter-long artificial ponds to test how eager different cichlids...

The Microbiologist

Pathogens deploy speargun nanomachine to spread unrecognized in the body

Some pathogens hide inside human cells to enhance their survival. Researchers at the University of Basel have uncovered a unique tactic certain bacteria use to spread in the body without being detected...

analytica-world.com

The enemy within: How pathogens spread unrecognized in the body

...cellular components (yellow) to form membrane protrusions from one host cell to another (green). University of Basel, Biozentrum Some pathogens hide inside human cells to enhance their survival. Researchers...

Daily Mail

Should Team GB give each other a hand at the upcoming Paris Olympics? A friendly tap on the shoulder increases the odds of netting a stressful shot in basketball, study shows

...way they could boost their chances: by giving each other a pat on the back. Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have discovered a friendly tap on the shoulder increases the odds of netting...

medicalxpress.com

Perfect balance: How the brain fine-tunes its sensitivity

by University of Basel html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" Inhibitory neurons (magenta) and their synapses (green) in the mouse neocortex....

phys.org

Study completes new analysis of patents to refute earlier claim that research has lost its innovative drive

by Andreas Lorenz-Meyer, University of Basel Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A high-profile study made headlines in 2023 stating that the scientific and innovation system is producing less and less...

chemeurope.com

Tiny plastic particles are found everywhere

...higher than previously assumed. This is one finding of a recent study involving researchers from the University of Basel. It’s not the first study on microplastics in Antarctica that researchers from the University...

yahoo! UK & Ireland

Microplastic levels in Antarctica ‘even worse than previously thought’ Researchers studying Antarctica's remote Weddell Sea have picked up particles far smaller than previous studies.

...and scientists are trying to work out where the particles are coming from. Researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI) focused on particles between 11 and 500 micrometres...

Jerusalem Post

A friendly pat on the back can improve performance in basketball

...back of a basketball player can improve his/her performance, according to a research team at the University of Basel in Switzerland. A free throw in basketball will have every eye glued to one person during...

ScienceDaily

Tiny plastic particles are found everywhere

It's not the first study on microplastics in Antarctica that researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI) have conducted. But analysis of the data from an expedition in...

swissinfo (engl.)

Basel researchers find more plastic in Antarctic than previously thought

...In previous studies, plastic particles were fished out of the sea using a fine net, explained the University of Basel in a press release on Tuesday. These nets had mesh sizes of around 300 micrometres (a third...

newfoodmagazine.com

Corn plants offer solution to arsenic-contaminated soil challenges

...arsenic-contaminated soil, this toxic element accumulates in the food chain. A study involving the University of Basel has now discovered a mechanism used by corn plants to reduce arsenic uptake: the key factor...

ScienceDaily

A friendly pat on the back can improve performance in basketball

...every eye glued to one person. It's an intensely stressful situation. A research team led by the University of Basel studied whether a friendly tap on the shoulder increases the odds of making a shot. In...

swissinfo (engl.)

Study: a friendly pat on the back can improve performance in basketball

The University of Basel researchers found that the probability of making a free throw rose if a female player had previously received a friendly touch of support from by their teammates. KEYSTONE Patting...

medicalxpress.com

Research explores liberalization of medical marijuana and mental health in the US

by University of Basel html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" Regulation of (medical) marijuana across US states at the end of 2018. Credit:...

swissinfo (engl.)

Switzerland Is Reworking Its Rulebook to Stop Another Banking Meltdown

...there are certainly some things which should be changed,” said Yvan Lengwiler, a professor at the University of Basel and the head of an expert panel created to make proposals for reform. “Finma definitely...

Reuters (USA)

Swiss National Bank should conduct broader search for chairman successor - report

...current chief economist at Switzerland's EFG Bank. The report's co-authors were Yvan Lengwiler of the University of Basel and president of the Swiss government's group of experts on banking stability, and Charles...

scitechdaily.com

When Trees Fall, Mercury Rises: Unveiling a Hidden Environmental Threat

...by co-authors Martin Jiskra, a former Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow at the University of Basel; Pasquale Borrelli, a professor at Roma Tre University in Italy; and Jagannath Biswakarma,...

BBC

My five tips to help improve your sleep

...don't have to have a hot bath or shower to benefit from this effect! Anna Wirz-Justice, from the University of Basel, advises that anything that kick starts that initial blood flow to the hands and feet can...

NPR

Your muscles keep time too. How circadian rhythms affect your workout and your health

...This trend is "incredibly consistent," says Esser. Raphael Knaier, an exercise physiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who reviewed this evidence, says, yes, the afternoon does come out on top...

Fish Focus

SLEEP-WAKE RHYTHM: FISH CHANGE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SLEEP REGULATION

...Contrary to common belief, not all vertebrates regulate their sleep-wake rhythm in the same way. University of Basel researchers have discovered that some fish — unlike humans — do not need orexin to stay...

neurosciencenews.com

Psychology of Stock Choices: High Risk or Steady Gains?

...stock market performance and aid in financial planning, such as for government investments. Source: University of Basel Should I invest my money with a small chance of big returns? Or is it better to pick investments...

G.I.T. Laboratory Journal

Inflammatory bowel disease after a stem cell transplant

...inflammatory bowel disease that occurs very rarely following a transplant. Researchers from the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel have studied the case and are calling for more extensive...

chemeurope.com

Using light to produce medication and plastics more efficiently

...process to achieve the desired product also often takes fewer intermediate steps. Researchers from the University of Basel are now going one step further and are demonstrating how the energy efficiency of photochemical...

phys.org

Using light to produce medication and plastics more efficiently

by University of Basel Photoinduced electron transfer between metal complexes and tertiary amines. Credit: Nature Chemistry (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01482-4 Anyone who wants to produce medication,...

swissinfo (engl.)

Switzerland Shows No Signs of Changing the SNB After Jordan’s Long Reign

...good track record with regard to inflation has shielded the SNB,” said Yvan Lengwiler, a professor at Basel University and one of a group of economists called the SNB Observatory. “The independence of a central...

finance.yahoo.com

Switzerland Shows No Signs of Changing the SNB After Jordan’s Long Reign

...good track record with regard to inflation has shielded the SNB,” said Yvan Lengwiler, a professor at Basel University and one of a group of economists called the SNB Observatory. “The independence of a central...

swissinfo (engl.)

Why double surnames are stirring controversy in Switzerland

...express their belonging to the family,” Fleur Weibel, from Gender and Diversity Thinktank at the University of Basel, toldExternal link the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 2021 when debate on the names kicked off...

Scientific American

Scientific American

...safer option is to go for perennial Standard Time,” said Blume, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland. The nonprofit organization Save Standard Time lists endorsements from...

Technology Networks

High-Throughput Screening: Advances, Applications and Combined Approaches

...target. Dr. Basilius Sauter is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Dennis Gillingham’s lab at the University of Basel. Sauter specializes in the areas of DNA-encoded libraries and DNA-modifying drugs. “Although...

Reuters (USA)

Swiss report calls on central bank to hire outsider as next chairman

...finance department before joining the SNB. The report's co-authors included Yvan Lengwiler of the University of Basel and president of the Swiss government's group of experts on banking stability, and Charles...

politico.eu

End of an era as Swiss central banker Jordan steps down early

...opaque and authoritarian approach to governance. Yvan Lengwiler, a professor of finance at the University of Basel, said part of the reason for that bank's collapse was Jordan's “conservative” approach...

finance.yahoo.com

The Frontrunners to Replace Swiss National Bank President Thomas Jordan

...years — including short stints at the IMF and the San Francisco Fed. He was also a lecturer at the University of Basel and originally hails from Bellinzona in Italian-speaking Switzerland. Sebastien Kraenzlin,...

scitechdaily.com

Myth Debunked: Syphilis-Like Diseases Were Already Widespread in America Before the Arrival of Columbus

...evolutionary development. An international research group led by Professor Verena Schünemann from the University of Basel, formerly at the University of Zurich, in collaboration with ETH Zurich and the Universities...

Cycling Weekly

'Sky before screens' has made me a better cyclist - could it work for you?

...day - I spoke to Christine Blume, a sleep scientist based at the Centre for Chronobiology of the University of Basel and its Psychiatric Hospital (UPK) based in Switzerland. "We often talk about routines...

photonicsviews.com

Mass-producible miniature quantum memory

...vapor cells as a basis for a mass-production of quantum memories on a wafer. Researchers at the University of Basel have built a quantum memory element based on atoms in a tiny glass cell. In the future,...

phys.org

More bang for the buck in influencer marketing: Focus on influencers with smaller followings, say study

...Researchers from University of Mannheim, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Reichman University, and University of Basel published a new study that examines the effectiveness of paid influencer endorsements,...

News Leaflets

When the global climate has the hiccups

...course of their life,” explains Prof. Dominik Fleitmann, Professor of Quaternary Geology at the University of Basel. He calls the phenomena “climate hiccups.” These Dansgaard-Oeschger events are well documented...

The Star Online - Malaysia News

Underground car parks could be used to heat water and save energy

...Germany's University of Halle and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, as well as Switzerland's Basel University, analysed the temperatures in 31 underground car parks in various cities in Germany, Austria...

medicalxpress.com

Social media can reveal who needs the most help

...live," says Bietti. He collaborated on this study with postdoctoral fellow Eric Mayor from the University of Basel. The results have now been published in the journal Heliyon. Ethnic minorities are more...

scienceblog.com

Tweet Talk: How Social Media Language Sheds Light on Mental Health and Inequality

...ourselves and our living conditions. He worked on the study with postdoctoral fellow Eric Mayor from the University of Basel, and their findings are now published in the journal Heliyon. The study found that people...

medium.com

The Genius Of the Bernoulli Family

...Niklaus Bernoulli, a spice merchant and alderman of Base. He studied theology and philosophy at the University of Basel, but his interest in mathematics was sparked by reading the works of René Descartes and...

newswise.com

Resistant bacteria can remain in the body for years

...carry resistant germs and suffer from repeated infections for years, according to a study by the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel. Pneumonia, urinary tract infections, sepsis: diseases like...

bigthink.com

Columbus: DNA evidence challenges syphilis origin theories

...recent study by members of the same University of Zurich team in partnership with researchers at the University of Basel further bolsters the case for acquitting Columbus for the rise of venereal syphilis. The...

The Independent

Post-covid depression is real – and this is why you might be at risk

...Supplied Post-covid depression is real – and this is why you might be at risk A 2016 study from Basel University found that flu sufferers had a 57 per cent higher risk of developing depression afterwards...

yahoo! UK & Ireland

Ancient human DNA suggests Columbus may not have brought syphilis to Europe after all

...emerged a lot sooner than previously thought, Verena Schünemann, professor of Paleogenetics from the University of Basel, told Business Insider. "Of course, we cannot prove it wrong — it doesn't work yet. But...

Daily Star

Columbus not reason for 'syphilis-like disease' in US– it was rampant 2,000 years before

...explore (Image: Print Collector/Getty Images) Kerttu Majander, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basel, said: "The fact that the findings represent an endemic type of treponemal diseases, and...

Daily Mail

Columbus did NOT bring syphilis-like disease to America - the infection was running rampant 2,000 years ago, myth-busting study finds

...skin - all of which can be painful and disabling. Kerttu Majander, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Basel, said: 'The fact that the findings represent an endemic type of treponemal diseases, and...

pomona.ch

Why Switzerland should advocate a ban on nuclear weapons

Laurent Goetschel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Basel and Director of the Swisspeace Peace Foundation. In this guest article, he explains why a new approach is needed in dealing...

Money Laundering Watch

The Basel AML Index: Forfeiture, Non-Profits, Crypto, and More. A Guest Blog.

...partners around the world to prevent and combat corruption, and is an Associated Institute of the University of Basel . The Basel Institute's work involves action, advice and research on issues including anti-corruption...

scitechdaily.com

Micro Marvels: Researchers Shrink Quantum Memory for Mass Production

Researchers at the University of Basel have built a quantum memory element based on atoms in a tiny glass cell. In the future, such quantum memories could be mass-produced on a wafer. It is hard to imagine...

phys.org

Scientists build mass-producible miniature quantum memory element

by University of Basel Light pulses can be stored and retrieved in the glass cell, which is filled with rubidium atoms and is only a few millimeters in size. Credit: University of Basel, Department of...

huffingtonpost.co.uk

Stay Up All Night On Your Phone? We Have Good News

...as slumber is great for everything from your brain health to your gut. But researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany recently...

sleepopolis.com

Does Blue Light Really Impact Our Circadian Rhythm? A New Study Questions Previous Research

...influences (or doesn’t influence) our sleep. The new study was conducted by researchers from the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich and first appeared in a recent issue of Nature Human...

BioTechniques

Gotcha! Whole-genome sequencing discovers seven unidentified bacteria of clinical relevance

...identified 35 new bacterial stains, some of which can cause infection. An ongoing research project at the University of Basel (Switzerland) has identified more than 30 new strains of bacteria, collected from patients...

News Medical

Genomic analysis of uncultured bacteria from patients identifies more than thirty new species

Unknown germs are a common occurrence in hospitals. Researchers at the University of Basel have spent many years collecting and analyzing them. They have identified many new species of bacteria, some of...

healthline.com

Will Blue Light From Your Phone Disrupt Your Sleep? What We Know

...emitted from these devices — may not be as disruptive as previously understood. The study from the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich, studied “effects of calibrated blue–yellow changes...

medicalnewstoday.com

Light intensity may affect your sleep-wake cycle more than light color

...eyestrain, and negatively affect sleep quality and duration. Now, a new study by researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland suggests the overall brightness of light plays a larger role in affecting...

Psychology Today

Blue Light May Not Be Keeping You Awake After All

...circadian rhythm, the internal clock that regulates our sleep-wake cycle. But a new study from the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich has shown that the color of light may not have as...

popsci.com

Lessons from Lake Tanganyika’s scale eating fish

...bold study that is as elegantly designed as logistically difficult. In 2018, researchers at the University of Basel conducted one of the very few manipulative field experiments that have been undertaken...

The Week

Shedding light on sleep: How different light colours affect your circadian rhythm

...the human body's internal clock and sleep-wake rhythm. The study conducted by researchers from the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) contradicts the results of a previous study...

Forbes (US)

Artificial Snow Not A Long-Term Answer For Ski Resorts In The Alps

...temperature will cause 98% of the resorts examined in the study to suffer from scarce snow. A study by Basel University found that resorts between 1,800 to 2,000 meters would need to close lower slopes and rely...

yahoo! UK & Ireland

Ski resorts battle for a future as snow declines in climate crisis

...emissions, artificial snow use at scale creates problems in energy and water use. A study by the University of Basel found resorts located below 1,800 to 2,000 metres would have to abandon their lower slopes...

galaxus.ch

Are we commercialising pets too much? This is what the animal ethicist says

...can buy as a human. Is this morally justifiable? I asked the animal ethicist Nico Müller from the University of Basel. Nico Müller works on animal ethics, animal research ethics and Kantian ethics at the...

Tech News Vision

Study indicates that light color may not have an impact on sleep

Researchers from the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich conducted a recent study that raises the possibility that light color has little effect on sleep or the body's internal clock....

swissinfo (engl.)

Swiss antibiotics prescriptions doubled during pandemic

This is shown by a new study by researchers at the University Hospital of Basel. According to the study published in the journal "Clinical Microbiology and Infection", the use of antibiotics doubled from around eight to 16 antibiotic prescriptions per 100 consultations.

swissinfo (engl.)

Swiss Roman battle site reveals hidden secrets of historic clash

...battlefield, a Roman battlefield here in Switzerland,” says Schwarz, an archaeology professor at the University of Basel. In their hi-vis jackets, the archaeologists are hard to miss. Anouck Duttweiler attacks...

scitechdaily.com

False Prophets: How Zuckerberg and Musk Mislead the Digital Economy

...Zuckerberg and Elon Musk shape today's digital economy? A study by an economic sociologist at the University of Basel has analyzed speeches, book contributions and articles from Silicon Valley from Silicon...

BBC

Ten ways to avoid scams when booking holiday travel

...would-be fraudster knew who she was. Wagner, an associate professor in cyber security at Switzerland's University of Basel, has devoted her career to researching how to keep personal data private. She wasn't going...

chemistryworld.com

Superheavy elements forged in giant stellar collisions

...compared with observational features,’ says theoretical astrophysicist Friedel Thielemann from the University of Basel in Switzerland. ‘In that sense, this is a very ambitious approach and a very careful approach.’...

phys.org

Replacing bone saws with smart lasers

by University of Basel Dr. Arsham Hamidi and Dr. Ferda Canbaz at the laser lab. Credit: Reinhard Wendler, University of Basel Using lasers rather than scalpels and saws has many benefits in surgery....

swissinfo (engl.)

Bank rescue package: Swiss government encounters resistance

...too low, including Corinne Zellweger-Gutknecht, professor of private law and business law at the University of Basel. ‘Serious blunder’ However, the government not only wants to transfer the SNB’s guaranteed...

scitechdaily.com

Sophisticated Microbial Metropolis: Revealing Bacterial Teamwork Across Generations

...bacteria build communities, they cooperate and share nutrients across generations. Researchers at the University of Basel have now successfully demonstrated this for the first time using a newly developed method....

newsfounded.com

Have you ever felt excluded? The expert shares why it hurts so much

...yet we do it to each other. Christiane Büttner, a doctoral student in social psychology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, studies exclusion, specifically the psychological effects of social media...

medium.com

New AI Tools Open the Door for Greater Astrobiology Research

...families that could help unlock new mysteries. In a study published in Nature, a research team at the University of Basel and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics have used deep learning to make these discoveries...

pmlive.com

Boehringer Ingelheim to acquire T3 Pharmaceuticals in deal worth over $500m

...T-cell engagers, oncolytic viruses and cancer vaccines. T3, founded in 2015 as a spinout from the University of Basel in Switzerland, has developed a proprietary therapy platform that uses live bacteria to...

Pharmaceutical Technology

Boehringer Ingelheim acquires T3 Pharma for $509m

...trial in patients with advanced solid tumours (NCT05120596). T3 Pharma, which spun off from the University of Basel's Biozentrum in 2015, uses a bacterial delivery platform as a framework for drug development....

Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer acquires T3 Pharma | Boehringer Ingelheim

...www.boehringer-ingelheim.com About T3 Pharma T3 Pharma, founded in 2015 as a spin-off from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, is a biotechnology company developing bacteria-based immuno-oncology therapies to treat...

swissinfo (engl.)

Swiss parliament: who is entitled to be represented?

...2023 elections have resulted in less diversity,” says Daniel Höhmann, a political scientist at the University of Basel. “This is a step backwards in terms of the representation of the different segments of...

telegraph.co.uk

Central banks will have to slash rates as the world’s fiscal bubble bursts

...Turner, a former top official at the Bank for International Settlements, and Marina Misev from the University of Basel, warn that central banks are being misled by false assumptions about R* into dangerous...

newswise.com

A blood test shows MS worsening 1 to 2 years before it happens

...In the study, publishing in JAMA Neurology on Nov. 6, 2023, and co-led by University Hospital and University of Basel, in Switzerland, the researchers looked at the incidence of disability worsening, defined...

investing.com

Swiss National Bank cuts overnight deposit rates to curb soaring interest costs

...banks still pay interest and this is costly," said Yvan Lengwiler, professor of economics at the University of Basel. This has been a big issue for the SNB because of the high level of cash held in sight...

The New York Times

What’s Happening in Germany Reveals the Strange State of the Left

Others are more skeptical that Ms. Wagenknecht will draw voters from the far right. In a much-remarked-on essay in the center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the social scientist Oliver Nachtwey, who is based in Basel, Switzerland, emphasized that her preferred targets were not at Germany’s ex

Daily Mail

Alpine World Cup is slammed for 'stealing snow from a melting glacier' for its ski competition

...global warming could have a significant impact on the sport. Earlier this year, researchers from the University of Basel warned that snowy slopes are quickly disappearing, with climate change to blame. In their...

TASS (en)

Ground operation in Gaza legally possible — expert

Professor of international law at Basel University Andreas Mueller noted that an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip is possible but there must follow "a measure of proportionality"

gettotext.com

Blockade of the Gaza Strip: Ambassador: Hamas responsible for water supply, not Israel

...UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani. However, international law expert at the University of Basel, Anna Petrig, said: “In principle, siege is not a forbidden method of war.” But if the...

BBC

How unearthing diseases' ancient origins could help produce modern cures

...theory. In 2020, Verena Schuenemann, a professor of archaeological science affiliated with the University of Basel and University of Zurich, led a team which extracted DNA from nine individuals whose bones...

ScienceDaily

Win-win in muscle research: Faster results and fewer laboratory animals thanks to new method

To study muscle diseases, scientists rely on the mouse as a model organism. Researchers at the University of Basel have now developed a new method that is not only faster and more efficient than conventional...

phys.org

Investment in the future: Making influencers affordable

by Reto Caluori, University of Basel Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Influencers with a large following are expensive and usually not interested in promoting unknown brands. This marketing channel...

The Telegraph

Unwelcome Plateau

...exercise. “Spread your protein intake out over the course of a day to maximise the benefits,” said Christoph Handschin, a muscle researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland. NYTNS Follow us on:

swissinfo (engl.)

Why is Switzerland refusing to follow EU sanctions on China?

...behind this decision is economic”, says Ralph Weber, a European Global Studies professor at the University of Basel. In March 2021, the European Union imposed sanctions on some Chinese individuals and companies...

Inverse

Trees Are Dying at Shocking Rates — Understanding How Could Ultimately Save Them

...here, the subject of a long-term study led by plant ecologist and physiologist Ansgar Kahmen of the University of Basel. When the project was launched in 2018, the goal was to simulate the effects of drought...

phys.org

Artificial intelligence tools shed light on millions of proteins

by University of Basel A snapshot of the interactive network “Protein Universe Atlas”. Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum A research team at the University of Basel and the SIB Swiss Institute...

New York Post

PTSD may be cured by ‘ecstasy’ therapy: breakthrough MDMA study

...symptoms of the disorder. “It’s an important study,” Matthias Liechti, a psychopharmacologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, said in a news release. “It confirms MDMA works.” The Food and Drug Administration...

ScienceDaily

Exposure to air pollution while in the womb is linked to adverse changes in cell processes in new-born babies

...response to stress. Dr Olga Gorlanova, a research physician at the University Children's Hospital, University of Basel, Switzerland, told the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Milan, Italy,...

swissgrid.ch (en)

Do electromagnetic fields affect our health?

...the High Voltage Testing and Engineering Commission (FKH), Fields at Work GmbH, Swiss TPH and the University of Basel. Some of the findings of the report are presented here. Where do electric and magnetic...

Blockworks

Ethereum's Buterin co-authors proposal to balance blockchain privacy, regulation

...government. The paper's authors — Buterin, as well as Chainalysis chief scientist Jacob Illum, University of Basel professor Fabian Schär, doctoral candidate Matthias Nadler of the University of Basel...

finance.yahoo.com

Vitalik Buterin Co-authors Paper Addressing Blockchain Privacy

...co-authors are Ameen Soleimani, the co-founder of Moloch DAO, Matthias Nadler and Fabian Schar of the University of Basel, and Jacob Illum, chief scientist at Chainalysis. Privacy Pools could be considered a...

ScienceDaily

Active children are more resilient

...begun and the first exams are already approaching. According to findings by researchers from the University of Basel, school children cope better with the stress if they get plenty of daily exercise. "Get...

israelnationalnews.com

Swiss university's Jewish studies professor must be Catholic

...teaches Jewish studies cannot be anyone else but a Catholic,” Bodenheimer, who now teaches at the University of Basel, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency “I really saw that as a Jewish person at this university,...

Haaretz (en)

Did Jewish Gladiators Exist?

...path to God. Now an article published in 2023 in the journal Atiqot by Haggai Olshanetsky from the University of Basel, Switzerland, examines the archaeological and historical evidence for the existence of...

Jerusalem Post

A Swiss university is hiring its next Jewish studies professor. Jews need not apply.

...teaches Jewish studies cannot be anyone else but a Catholic,” Bodenheimer, who now teaches at the University of Basel, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “I really saw that as a Jewish person at this university,...

Euromaidan Press

Genocide, assimilation, theft: Kazakh historian reveals Russian colonialism’s ruthless playbook

Russian colonialism for centuries has relied on the elimination and assimilation of local peoples to build its empire, says Kazakh historian Botakoz Kassymbekova.

Yahoo.com

Did the ancient Egyptians really marry their siblings and children?

...(Cambridge University Press, 2013), Sabine Huebner, a professor of ancient civilizations at the University of Basel in Switzerland, wrote that many of these brother-sister marriages may actually be with...

Spiegel Online (International)

"Nobody Wants to Hike Through a Dead Forest"

...snow security for decades to come with the help of artificial snow, according to a study from the University of Basel. Preparations Are Key Regions across Europe and around the world are searching for methods...

chemeurope.com

Chromium replaces rare and expensive noble metals

...in the past. State-of-the-art chromium compounds act as luminescent materials and catalysts Universität Basel, Jo Richers We’re familiar with chromium from everyday applications such as chromium steel...

BBC

How coin tosses can lead to better decisions

...that point, an apparently abstract decision. Recent experiments by a team of researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have demonstrated that a randomly dictated decision prompt can help us to...

Popular Science

The same metal found on hot rods and Harleys could revolutionize solar panels

“Because of this, there’s also the potential to use our new materials in artificial photosynthesis to produce solar fuels,” Oliver Wenger, research lead and a professor within the University of Basel’s department of chemistry, said in a recent statement.

scitechdaily.com

Approaching Absolute Zero: Scientists Use Lasers To Cool Small Membrane

Researchers from the University of Basel have developed a new technique that successfully cooled a small membrane down to temperatures close to absolute zero using only laser light. Such extremely cooled...

phys.org

Researchers develop chromium compounds that can replace rare and expensive noble metals

by University of Basel State-of-the-art chromium compounds act as luminescent materials and catalysts. Credit: University of Basel, Jo Richers Expensive noble metals often play a vital role in illuminating...

newswise.com

Does access to assisted suicide affect trends of conventional suicide among patients with cancer?

...2009–2018. “Obviously, the situations and motivations for cancer-associated CS seem to be clearly different from those for cancer-related AS,” said corresponding author Uwe Güth, MD, of the University of Basel.

The Diplomat

The War in Ukraine Is Catalyzing a Linguistic Awakening in Kazakhstan

...would rather preserve my identity.” Botakoz Kassymbekova, an assistant professor in modern history at Basel University, concurs: “Russian literature teaches us to love Russia and despise ourselves.” Alexander...

BBC

Do people really swallow spiders in their sleep?

...insects, many of which eat our crops and pester our livestock," its website suggests. A study by the University of Basel in Switzerland in 2017 found spiders have an enormous ecological impact as natural enemies...

swissinfo (engl.)

Credit Suisse Collapsed, And Switzerland Went Back to Making Money

...very important thing,” says Andrea Schenker-Wicki, a professor of management and president of the University of Basel. “If we don’t change the culture, we’ll have the same problems again.” Colm Kelleher,...

BNN Bloomberg

Credit Suisse Collapsed, And Switzerland Went Back to Making Money

...very important thing,” says Andrea Schenker-Wicki, a professor of management and president of the University of Basel. “If we don't change the culture, we'll have the same problems again.” Colm Kelleher,...

telegraph.co.uk

The British economy is being hit by four policy shocks at the same time

...the issue from the Wicksellian perspective of the BIS. In a joint paper with Marina Misev from the University of Basel, he argues that the current monetary squeeze is “too much, too late” and threatens to “destabilise...

News Medical

Tackling obesity in children with heart disease

...exercise in children but much less so in adults Henner Hanssen, Study First Author and Professor, University of Basel Childhood obesity and the associated problems of high blood pressure, blood lipids and...

scitechdaily.com

Not So Rare After All: Unveiling the True Prevalence of “Rare” Diseases

...asymptomatic “carriers” – or at least that was the previous assumption. However, researchers from the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel are challenging this notion. Their findings suggest that...

BBC

How to get a good night's sleep

Kim Chakanetsa is joined by psychologist Dr Christine Blume from the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Since April 2022 she has been involved in a four-year project to study the effects of natural daylight and exercise on our circadian rhythms.

GEN

Tackling the “Don’t Eat Me” Signal in Brain Cancer

...glioblastomas. Now, researchers led by Professor Gregor Hutter from the department of biomedicine at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel have recently used patient data, experiments with mice,...

medicalxpress.com

Researchers report on inhibitory effect of glioblastoma signals to macrophages

by University of Basel Glioblastoma (histology slide). Credit: Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 "Don't eat me," is how one might translate the signal that the cancer cells in a glioblastoma send to the macrophages...

Physicsworld.com

Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox gets a 1000-atom test

...separated entangled rubidium atom clouds (blue) on top of a micro-fabricated gold atom chip. (Courtesy: University of Basel) A key feature of quantum mechanics is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states...

inkl.com

Jewish Participation In Roman Gladiatorial Games Remains Uncertain, Study Shows

...they defied rabbinic admonitions and attended the games as spectators, wrote Haggai Olshanetsky, a University of Basel postdoctoral fellow in ancient civilizations. Three types of people bore weapons in ancient...

Jerusalem Post

Were there Jewish gladiators in the Roman Empire?

...Ramat Gan, is currently doing post-doctoral research in the ancient civilizations department at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “The participation of Jews in the arena, especially as gladiators, has...

bionity.com (eng.)

Cell therapy meets the very latest in gene editing: start-up Cimeio joins forces with Prime Medicine

...for blood cancer and other serious blood diseases – this is the goal that Cimeio Therapeutics, a University of Basel spin-off, has set itself. The start-up has been able to make a great step forward together...

Newswav

What Happens When the Body Signals a Need for Energy

...Our body's energy production heavily relies on the balance of fat metabolism. Scientists at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have made a groundbreaking discovery—a molecular switch that finely regulates...

swissinfo (engl.)

‘Exceptional’ Bronze Age artefacts unearthed in Switzerland

...carried out in collaboration with volunteers as part of the "CVMBAT" project in collaboration with the University of Basel, the Swiss Prospecting Working Group and the Federal Office of Culture. More: SWI swissinfo.ch...

phys.org

Researchers report on a new technique for cooling membranes with lasers

by University of Basel In the Basel experiment, a laser beam is directed onto a membrane (square in the middle). Using the reflected laser light, delayed by a fiber optic cable (violet), the membrane...

huffingtonpost.co.uk

There's A Reason You've Been Having Absolutely Wild Dreams Lately

...sleep, including a transition phase and deep slumber. Christine Blume, a sleep scientist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, told Wired that “We know that cooler temperatures support deep sleep.”...

Science Alert

Physicists Conduct The Most Massive Test Ever of The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox

...each consisting of 700 atoms, a team of physicists co-led by Paolo Colciaghi and Yifan Li of the University of Basel in Switzerland has shown that the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox scales up. The...

bionity.com (eng.)

Mechanisms behind aggressive cancer metastases uncovered

...offer ideas for new treatments. Bentires-Alj’s research team at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, elucidated one of these cascades. It begins with a metabolic...

drugs.com

Early Treatment Can Be Initiated for A-Fib Patients With Stroke

...European Stroke Organization Conference, held from May 24 to 26 in Munich. Urs Fischer, M.D., from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues conducted an open-label trial at 103 sites in 15 countries...

phys.org

Protein serves as a breaking point for cell membrane rupture during cell death

by Katrin Bühler, University of Basel Ninjurin-1 proteins assemble (green/yellow) into filaments and rupture the cell membrane (gray) until the cell disintegrates completely. Intracellular components...

scitechdaily.com

Microsoft's Quantum Breakthrough – Were They Wrong?

...particle that could potentially be utilized for crafting notably durable quantum bits. However, University of Basel's researchers are currently questioning these conclusions regarding the so-called Majorana...

phys.org

Skepticism about Microsoft results regarding robust quantum bits

by Oliver Morsch, University of Basel Disorder in very thin nanowires can lead to measurement results that could be misinterpreted as evidence for Majorana particles. Credit: University of Basel, Department...

Time Magazine

The Architect of Swiss Neutrality Thinks It's Time for His Country to Take Sides

...Goetschel, the director of the Swiss Peace research institute and a professor of political science at the University of Basel. “The idea that the country would stay aloof from any political collective measures and...

phys.org

New production process for therapeutic nanovesicles

by University of Basel The extracellular vesicles (red) produced using the new technique are absorbed in vitro by immune cells (green; nucleus in turquoise) and can therefore influence an organism’s...

Psychology Today

It’s No Fun to Be Excluded, So What Can You Do About It?

...for that matter. Either way, it doesn’t feel very good. Ostracism’s Three Causes According to University of Basel’s Selma Rudert and colleagues (2023), although it’s clear from “a plethora of research”...

swissinfo (engl.)

New Covid-19 vaccine successfully tested in Switzerland

...drops. The vaccine effectively protected them against the disease and prevented virus transmission. University of Basel, Catherine Weyer X Researchers at the University of Basel have successfully tested...

medicalxpress.com

New vaccine concept against SARS-CoV-2 successfully tested

by University of Basel Single-cycle vaccine concept and viral characterization. Credit: bioRxiv (2023). DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.17.541127 Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a new approach...

The Sun

SUPER SWAP I’m a dermatologist – here are 3 cheap skincare swaps that are as good as expensive products

...traumatize the epidermis." Similarly, Christian Surber, a professor of dermatopharmacology at the University of Basel and the University of Zurich, told The New York Times that they "abuse the skin". Read...

neurosciencenews.com

Linking Oxytocin and Vasopressin: A Novel Pathway for Autism Therapy

...approaches for conditions like autism that are suspected to be linked to oxytocin deficits. Source: University of Basel The hormone oxytocin is important for social interaction and to control emotions. A deficiency...

swissinfo (engl.)

Swiss overestimate survival chances after resuscitation

...any neurological deficits starts to decrease exponentially,” study leader Sabina Hunziker from the University of Basel said in a statementExternal link on Tuesday. If a cardiac arrest occurs outside a hospital,...

Forbes Australia

Six expert-approved sleep tips to boost your daily productivity

...who researches light exposure, circadian rhythm and sleep at the Center for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. One component is a “homeostatic process,” which dictates that most adults...

finance.yahoo.com

Are Swiss banks still hoarding Nazi gold?

...transferable currency apart from the US greenback. Mark Pieth, a professor of criminal law at the University of Basel, says around 80pc of gold held by the Nazis was transferred to Switzerland during the war...

swissinfo (engl.)

The Swiss bitcoin expert with a global reputation

...for banks. Fabian Schär, Professor of Blockchain, Bitcoin and Financial Market Technology at the University of Basel, has a front row seat to view these developments. This content was published on May 4,...

The Times of Israel

Roman army may have included kosher-observant Jews 2,000 years ago, study finds

...explained Dr. Haggai Olshanetsky, the author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “There were Jews in the Roman Army, and Jews fighting against the Roman...

Scientific American

Who Invented the Measurement of Time?

...acted as a primitive sundial—or no device at all, says Rita Gautschy, an archeoastronomer at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “It’s really difficult to get a grip on when people started with timekeeping,”...

Reuters (USA)

Analysis: Powerful Swiss central bank faces reform calls in wake of Credit Suisse rescue

...small committee meant the central bank was susceptible to group think. Yvan Lengwiler, from the University of Basel, said too many SNB officials spent their entire careers at the central bank, a particular...

zerohedge.com

One Of The Best Inflation Hedges Is Hiding In Japan

...wind. In Monetary Regimes and Inflation , the author Peter Bernholz, professor of economics at the University of Basel in Switzerland, showed that all of the major high and hyper-inflationary episodes of the...

texty.org.ua

How to Explain the Real Reason Why Russia is Waging a War on Ukraine to Europeans

...quotations from the opinion article by Botakoz Kassymbekova, Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University of Basel, of Kazakh descent: “Many in Western academia bought into the anti-colonial narrative...

STUFF

Should this lamp be on every office desk?

...conclusion of a 2011 investigation by Christian Cajochen, the head of the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel, suggests office space designers include the colour blue as much as possible to increase...

Associated Press

Researchers Discover a New Embryonic Brain Circuit

...granting academic freedom to its scientists. Founding partners are the University Hospital Basel, the University of Basel and Novartis. The Canton of Basel-Stadt has granted the institute substantial financial...

Biosciencetoday

Is Basel set to become Europe's Silicon Valley of biotech?

...Novo Holdings. Another company supported by BaseLaunch is Cimeio Therapeutics, a spinout from the University of Basel that is developing immunotherapies for patients with serious and life-threatening diseases....

swissinfo (engl.)

Battered image: Switzerland needs to go back to the drawing board

...17, 2023 April 17, 2023 minutes Opinion by Mark Pieth Mark Pieth, Criminal Law Professor, University of Basel The downfall of Credit Suisse brings back memories of the grounding of national carrier...

swissinfo (engl.)

Switzerland’s tax haven reputation runs deep even with reforms

...questions from authorities. This is progress, says Kurt Schmidheiny an expert in tax competition at the University of Basel. The deal will reduce “Switzerland's attractiveness for footloose foreign capital and profits...

chemeurope.com

Luminous Molecules

... A new concept in synthesis Professor Olivier Baudoin, Dr. Shu-Min Guo and Soohee Huh from the University of Basel’s Department of Chemistry have just made an important step forward. In the latest issue...

Associated Press

Swiss lawmakers pick apart Credit Suisse woes ahead of deal

...from lawmakers who all face reelection this fall. Yvan Lengwiler, an economics professor at the University of Basel, suggested that the debate would play into a longtime “tug-of-war” between lawmakers who...

MarketWatch

Swiss lawmakers open session looking at UBS-Credit Suisse deal

...from lawmakers who all face reelection this fall. Yvan Lengwiler, an economics professor at the University of Basel, suggested that the debate would play into a longtime “tug-of-war” between lawmakers who...

Daily Mail

Definition of soft on crime! California police station recruits a pet RABBIT as its ‘wellness officer’ — so cops can pet it when they feel stressed

...In Yuba City, the crime rate rose by 5 percent from 2019 to 2020. Last year, researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland found that cuddling furry friends engages the part of the brain responsible...

Forbes Magazine

Doomsday Predictions Around ChatGPT Are Counter-Productive

...the importance of self-efficacy in personal development. This is backed up by research from the University of Basel, which found that the most important determining factor of success in both one's education...

News Concerns

Mummies provide the key to reconstruct the climate of the ancient Mediterranean

...trying to reconstruct the climate of Roman Egypt. Huebner, a Professor of Ancient History at the University of Basel, coordinates the work of historians, archaeologists and climatologists. “Mummy labels are...

New York Post

The CDC keeps pushing COVID boosters on kids despite real health risks

...common after the vaccine in a cohort of young males, a recent JAMA Cardiology study found. In a University of Basel study, asymptomatic heart damage occurred in 2.8% of people after the COVID booster as...

CNN.com

Swiss prosecutor probes Credit Suisse takeover

...“It’s astonishing that the prosecutor would comment,” said Mark Pieth, professor emeritus of the University of Basel, where he has taught criminal law and criminology. But the rescue “is so out of the ordinary...

Newsweek

Scientists Make Quantum Light Breakthrough: 'This Experiment Is Beautiful'

...photon on its own and the ones that were bound. For the first time, scientists from @sydney_uni and @UniBasel_en have demonstrated the ability to manipulate #quantumlight, which could advance #medicalimaging...

Boston Globe

When the war in Ukraine comes to classrooms in New England

...in Warsaw, a stop in Hamburg. They needed to make it to Switzerland, where her fellowship at the University of Basel, slated to begin last August, was moved earlier to offer her refuge. The trio arrived...

Guardian

Switzerland’s national pride dealt heavy blow by the merger of its banking titans

...Suisse’s solidity is much better than it is presented,” said George Sheldon, a professor emeritus at Basel university’s faculty of business and economics. “But this has become a question of trust. What we...

China Daily (Global Edition)

Belt and Road promoting common development

...of certain countries on so-called "debt traps". Helmut Reisen, a professor of economics at the University of Basel and counselor at the OECD Development Centre, wrote: "China has become, by a large margin,...

inkl.com

Why you should make the most of the extra daylight when the clocks change

...the open sky,” says Dr Christine Blume, a sleep scientist at the Centre for Chronobiology of the University of Basel. “So, our biological clock is especially sensitive to daylight.” This function, sometimes...

Popular Mechanics

Euler’s Number Is Seriously Everywhere. Here’s What Makes It So Special

...occurs so often. This number first came to light in 1683 when Jacob Bernoulli, an instructor at the University of Basel, was studying compound interest. He wanted to find out what would happen if a bank compounds...

Foreign Policy

The Road to Democracy in Russia Runs Through Chechnya

By Botakoz Kassymbekova, an assistant professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Nearly three decades ago, when post-Soviet Russia launched its first bloody war on Chechnya, Moscow traded its...

swissinfo (engl.)

Swiss universities are tackling sexual harassment. Are they getting it right?

...demand universities stay true to their commitments to make academia a better place. In 2019, the University of Basel and the federal technology institute ETH Zurich were criticised publicly for their handling...

Foreign Policy

Is the Ukraine War an Anti-Colonial Struggle?

...Spanish, and Belgian colonialism. As Botakoz Kassymbekova, assistant professor of modern history at the University of Basel, recently wrote for Al Jazeera, the overlooking of Russian colonialism is largely due to...

nikkei.com

China and Russia test Switzerland's long-standing neutrality

Ralph Weber, another leading Sinologist in Switzerland, sees neutrality becoming more of a burden in the current global environment.

radionz.co.nz

Daylight essential for our sleep, health and mood

...therapy, sleep deprivation, melatonin. She's Emeritus Professor of Psychiatric Neurobiology at the University of Basel, and is the former head of the Centre for Chronobiology at the Psychiatric University Clinic.

Forbes Magazine

Our Dreams Can Help Us Build Resilience At Work

...Indeed, research from the University of Basel found that a sense of belief was often the most significant factor in whether a young person could achieve social mobility or not. The researchers found that ...

medicalxpress.com

When is remdesivir effective for COVID-19?

by University of Basel Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Remdesivir was one of the first medications approved for treatment of COVID-19. Clinical studies evaluated its effectiveness, but did not generate...

News Medical

Specific group of COVID-19 patients benefits the most from remdesivir, new analysis shows

...patient groups more than others. Analysis of data from over 10,000 patients A research team from the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel led by clinical epidemiologist Professor Matthias...

NewScientist

Plants are spreading up mountains faster than thought in North America

...time span and geographic range analysed are major strengths of the study, says Sabine Rumpf at the University of Basel in Switzerland. But because the study looks at vegetation cover overall, Basel says the...

swissinfo (engl.)

Basel University gets private Afghan library collection

...Nasir Khosrow Balkhi library in Kabul, Afghanistan (2012) Keystone / S. Sabawoon The University of Basel is taking over the hitherto privately-run Bibliotecha Afghanica, a rich collection of material steeped...

menafn.com

Magnitsky Affair: Switzerland To Return Suspect Millions To Russia

...party involved”. This approach has been criticised by Mark Pieth, professor of criminal law at the University of Basel, according to whom“this method tends to favour money launderers, who can rely on structures...

swissinfo (engl.)

Magnitsky Affair: Switzerland to return suspect millions to Russia

...party involved”. This approach has been criticised by Mark Pieth, professor of criminal law at the University of Basel, according to whom “this method tends to favour money launderers, who can rely on structures...

The New York Times

Germany Has a Problem

Behind this general support is widespread racism and what the sociologist Oliver Nachtwey calls a “society of decline.” The postwar era’s promise of upward mobility has long since disappeared.

swissinfo (engl.)

Swiss study reviews hospital bed occupancy and mortality risks

The University of Basel study from late 2022 found that mortality rates increased by 2% a day once a certain occupancy threshold had been exceeded. Keystone / Gaetan Bally When bed occupancy rises, so...

atlanticcouncil.org

Europe’s last empire: Putin’s Ukraine war exposes Russia’s imperial identity

...the current genocidal war. Botakoz Kassymbekova is Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University of Basel. Further reading The views expressed in UkraineAlert are solely those of the authors...

Presseportal.ch (en)

Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society awards first MS research prize

...studies on new MS medication. In his experimental research at the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel, he examines the role of B lymphocytes and antibodies in MS and other neuroimmune diseases....

bigthink.com

Daily caffeine intake temporarily alters your brain structure

...changes the structure of your brain? Caffeine on the brain That’s the question Yu-Shiuan Lin of the University of Basel and her colleagues set out to answer, and their hypothesis was that daily caffeine intake...

BBC

How climate change threatens to close ski resorts

...harnessing huge snowmaking machines which cover the pistes in fresh white powder. A study by the University of Basel in Switzerland warns that resorts situated below 1,800-2,000m (5,900-6,600ft), will increasingly...

Al Jazeera

How Western scholars overlooked Russian imperialism

...Russian Empire and colonisation. Botakoz Kassymbekova Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University of Basel Published On 24 Jan 202324 Jan 2023 A woman holding a portrait of Stalin places flowers...

medicalxpress.com

Private patients receive treatment for heart conditions more often than those with basic health insurance, says study

by University of Basel Incidence Rates According to Health Insurance Status Incidence rates shown for main procedures only (A) and any procedures (B) during the study years for patients with basic insurance...

ScienceDaily

Tracing the flow of water with DNA

...toolbox that's new to our field of research," says Oliver Schilling, Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of Basel and at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. Quantitative...

The Times of India

Research finds how placebo can reduce feelings of guilt

...cohesion," said Dilan Sezer, researcher at the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Basel. Whether feelings of guilt can be reduced by taking placebos is something that researchers...

labiotech.eu

Cell and gene therapies gain momentum in Basel

...solid tumors, stimulating the body’s immune response. The company originated as a spinout from the University of Basel’s Biozentrum and – with the help of BaseLaunch, a biotech accelerator and incubator – successfully...

The New York Times

Dwindling Snow Leaves Swiss Alpine Villages Staring at an Identity Crisis

...more years with less and less snow,” said Sabine Rumpf, a professor of environmental science at the University of Basel. Her team has conducted satellite research showing that nearly 10 percent of snow cover...

drugs.com

Inpatient Mortality Up With Exposure to High Capacity Utilization

...study published online Dec. 19 in BMC Health Services Research. Narayan Sharma, Ph.D., from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues conducted a retrospective population-based analysis using...

The Economic Times

WEF 2023: A snowless Davos shows the world’s elite climate risk to global economy

...by the white snow. That causes even more warming, according to Sabine Rumpf, a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland, setting in motion a negative feedback loop and accelerating temperature...

swissinfo (engl.)

A Snowless Davos Tells the World’s Elite All They Need to Know

...by the white snow. That causes even more warming, according to Sabine Rumpf, a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland, setting in motion a negative feedback loop and accelerating temperature...

Healthcare Purchasing News

Study Reveals Link Between Increased Bed Occupancy and Mortality

...have long suspected a link between bed occupancy and mortality in hospitals. Now, a study by the University of Basel has provided the missing data, revealing that smaller hospitals reach their capacity limit...

China Daily (Global Edition)

Bare ski slopes make for bleak climate view

...led to Switzerland trying to preserve water to focus on hydroelectric power, and a study by the University of Basel said increased use of artificial snow in affected regions could send water consumption...

The Irish Times

Continent experiencing ‘most extreme weather event ever seen in European climatology’ as eight countries record warmest January days on record

...next seven days and only 23 out of 70 lifts are open, according to onthesnow.com. A study by the University of Basle warns higher resorts will have to rely increasingly on artificial snow to survive in the...

swissinfo (engl.)

Swiss ski resorts struggle with snow shortage and record temperatures

...notedExternal link the national tourist board on January 3. A recent studyExternal link by the University of Basel says that as global warming progresses higher resorts with skiing above 1,800 metres should...

Guardian

Record warm winters in parts of Europe force closure of ski slopes

...change winter tourism. Nor is artificial snow likely to provide much relief: a recent study by the University of Basel calculated that the water consumption of ski resorts who turn to snow canon could rise...

Wired

A Mass Extinction Is Taking Place in the Human Gut

...collaboration between Jigjiga University, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and the University of Basel. Pastoralists use milk as a staple food, so their diet is rich in fatty acids. Until now,...

wn.com

Winter ski holidays in the Alps could become a thing of the past thanks to ...

...in the Alps could soon become a thing of the past, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Basel have warned that snowy slopes are quickly disappearing, with climate change to blame. In...

telegraph.co.uk

Climate change could disrupt future Christmas ski holidays, scientists predict

...through to the end of February. But climate change is set to impact this too, researchers at the University of Basel found, as the water droplets fired by the cannons will no longer as efficiently combine,...

Daily Mail

Winter ski holidays in the Alps could become a thing of the past thanks to climate change, study warns

...the Alps could soon become a thing of the past, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Basel have warned that snowy slopes are quickly disappearing, with climate change to blame. ...

scienceblog.com

Skiing over Christmas holidays no longer guaranteed – even with snow guns

...global warming progresses, however, white slopes are becoming increasingly rare. Researchers at the University of Basel have calculated how well one of Switzerland’s largest ski resorts will remain snow reliable...

CTV News

Skiing in December not guaranteed with climate change, research shows

...mid-to-late December. At the Andermatt-Sedrun-Disentis ski resort in Switzerland, researchers from the University of Basel calculated how man-made snow might keep the ski season to 100 days or more into the next...

Canada Today

Groundbreaking cancer discovery turns cancer cells back into normal cells

...capacity they resemble stem cells or cells in an early stage of maturity. Researchers from the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel have tested the possibility of artificially maturing...

phys.org

Early green, early brown: Climate change leads to earlier senescence in alpine plants

by University of Basel Alpine plants that start to grow earlier also start to age earlier. As is the case with the alpine vegetation in these containers, which were exposed to summer weather several...

themarket.ch

The Swiss National Bank’s Options

The SNB will continue to raise policy interest rates to combat inflation. However, it could make use of another monetary policy instrument: adjusting the size of its balance sheet.

Physicsworld.com

Superconductor spin-correlation measurement is claimed as a first 13 Dec 2022

...a Cooper pair into a spin-up electron and a spin-down electron. (Courtesy: Department of Physics/University of Basel/Scixel) An experiment has shown that the spins of two electrons in a Cooper pair have...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Molecules found in mucus could prevent cholera infection

...Journal. Other key members of the research team are Rachel Hevey, a research associate at the University of Basel; Micheal Tiemeyer, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University...

phys.org

Unexpected speed-dependent friction in graphene

by Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel Graphical abstract. Credit: Nano Letters (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03667 Due to their low-friction properties, materials consisting of...

Boston Globe

The pros and cons of a meat tax

...wouldn’t necessarily make much difference in people’s buying decisions, Alena Schmidt, a researcher at University of Basel in Switzerland, and her colleagues found in a model of Swiss consumer behavior. That’s...

swissinfo (engl.)

How AI helps children with cleft lip and palate

...The digital process developed by Müller, head of the Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment Centre at the University of Basel, and scientists at the Department of Computer Science at the federal technology institute...

Technology Networks

"Basel: Europe’s Booming Biotech Powerhouse"

...Engineering (D-BSSE) of the ETH Zurich – one of just two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology – and the University of Basel. In total, there are 14 universities less than an hour’s drive away. The city’s unique...

swissinfo (engl.)

‘There is no such thing as an altruistic state’

Laurent Goetschel is director of swisspeace and professor of political science at the University of Basel. zVg Series Peacekeeping, Episode 5: Laurent Goetschel is arguably the most high-profile promoter...

Washington Post

Why falling asleep with the lights on is bad for your health

...yet time to sleep,” said Christine Blume, sleep scientist at the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel. In the morning, short wavelength-rich light such as sunlight helps us wake up and aligns...

Vogue (US)

An exhibition in Italy reveals the uses of photography as information technology

...between the photographer Armin Linke and photography historian Estelle Blaschke, researcher at the University of Basel. Curated by Francesco Zanot, the exhibition shows a four-year-long research project that...

Nanowerk

Spin correlation between paired electrons demonstrated

(Nanowerk News) Physicists at the University of Basel have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that there is a negative correlation between the two spins of an entangled pair of electrons from...

todayuknews.com

Liver cancer: How liver cells go astray

One of the main causes of liver cancer is excessive alcohol consumption. Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel The causes of liver cancer are manifold. In addition to metabolic disorders such as those...

ET Healthworld.com

How COVID-19 causes neurological damage found

...effects ranging from lasting concentration problems to strokes, the study said. Researchers, from the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, have studied the mechanisms responsible for...

ScienceDaily

Control of cell population sizes: When is enough enough?

Researchers at the University of Basel have uncovered a cell-intrinsic mechanism, that controls the appropriate number of T cells in the organism and thus ensures that the immune system functions properly....

Texarkana Gazette

Are trees talking underground? For scientists, it's in dispute.

...forest research has continued to grow, too. In 2016, Tamir Klein, a plant ecophysiologist then at the University of Basel and now at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, extended Simard's research into...

ScienceNews

Here’s how mysterious last-resort antibiotics kill bacteria

...bacteria die. The finding was a total surprise, says Sebastian Hiller, a structural biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Sign Up For the Latest from Science News Headlines and summaries of...

Al Bawaba

Sugar can be used to attack cancerous cells

...sugar molecules on their surface to disable attacks by the body’s immune system. Researchers at the University of Basel now report on how this mechanism can be neutralized.@LImmunotherapy @DepBiomedicine @UniSpitalBaselhttps://t.co/f6G...

ScienceDaily

Sugar molecules as a target in cancer therapy

...sugar molecules on their surface to disable attacks by the body's immune system. Researchers at the University of Basel now report on how this mechanism can be neutralized. advertisement The immune system...

The Times of Israel

Cases still low but new COVID strains spreading, with ominous echoes of past winters

...on either of the big questions regarding these variants, but there are some early insights. The University of Basel computational biologist Cornelius Roemer tweeted that based on his analysis, the the BQ.1...

Daily Mail

Two new strains of Covid have been found in the UK which may be immune to current vaccines, health officials warn

...assess the situation regarding the new variants. Experts at the Biozentrum research facility at the University of Basel warned a 'swarm' in these Covid-19 variants could lead to a 'significant' new wave of cases...

phys.org

Integration on a chip: Miniaturized infrared detectors

...Empa, ETH Zurich, EPFL, the University of Salamanca, Spain, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the University of Basel has built a proof-of-concept miniaturized Fourier-transform waveguide spectrometer that...

The New York Times

A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu and Other Infections Return as Covid Cases Rise

...previous variants,” said Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist in Richard Neher’s group at the University of Basel. The Food and Drug Administration has authorized boosters designed for BA.5 for all Americans...

BBC

All Consuming: Light Bulbs

Charlotte and Amit expose some shocking truths behind the history of the light bulb. We hear from media historian Markus Krajewski about how a cartel of companies conspired to limit the lifespan of light bulbs in the first known example of ‘planned obsolescence’.

Washington Post

XBB, BQ.1.1, BA.2.75.2 — a variant swarm could fuel a winter surge

...bigger advantage a new variant seems to have. Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, has been ranking the new omicron sublineages by how many mutations they...

Markets Insider

Implenia wins order for large, complex new laboratory project at University of Basel

...and Lean Construction used for planning and execution Glattpark (Opfikon), 18 October 2022 The University of Basel has contracted Implenia Division Buildings to build a new laboratory complex for its Department...

foxnews.com

Dog owner good news: Petting your dog may lead to stronger memory and better problem solving skills

...author Rahel Marti, a Ph.D. student in clinical psychology and animal-assisted interventions at the University of Basel in Switzerland, told Fox News Digital in an interview that the findings imply that interacting...

Jerusalem Post

Petting dogs engages the social brain - study

...clinical therapy, according to a study published yesterday. Rahel Marti and colleagues at the University of Basel in Switzerland found that viewing, feeling, and touching real dogs increases the level...

Psychology Today

New Discovery: The Cerebellum Enhances Emotional Memories

...the cerebrum (activations in green) to enhance the storage of emotional information. Source: MCN/University of Basel As seen in this image with green and red highlights, researchers from the University...

People

Dog Cuddles Help People Feel More Sociable and Less Stressed, Study Finds

...in contact with the dog the activation is stronger," the study's lead author, Rahel Marti of the University of Basel, Switzerland, told SWNS. Dogs Can Smell When Humans Are Stressed Out, Study Finds ...

scienceblog.com

Petting dogs engages the social brain, according to neuroimaging

...is measured while the participant interacts with the dog. Researchers led by Rahel Marti at the University of Basel in Switzerland report that viewing, feeling, and touching real dogs leads to increasingly...

CNN.com international

What petting a dog can do for your brain

...doctoral student in the division of clinical psychology and animal-assisted interventions at the University of Basel in Switzerland, in an email. Why is this finding important? It provides additional evidence...

Daily Express

New Covid variant set to 'swarm' UK by next month as NHS orders the return of masks

...the BA.4/BA.5, after which they started to fall steadily. The Biozentrum research facility at the University of Basel, which has been studying the evolution of the virus since the outbreak began in 2019, warned...

Daily Mail

Why stroking dogs is GOOD for you (not that you need an excuse)

...our furry friends, and now a new study has shed light on exactly why that is. Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland compared brain scans of study participants while they were stroking a pooch...

telegraph.co.uk

Why just stroking a dog really can make you happy

...shows that it makes them happy would be too much simplification,” Rahel Marti, study author from the University of Basel, told The Telegraph. “But we think that one explanation is that the participants were...

The Independent

‘Swarm’ of new Covid subvariants could drive wave across Europe and the US by end of November, expert warns

...evasive ability according to early data. According to the Biozentrum research facility at the University of Basel, which has been studying the evolution of the virus since the pandemic started, there is...

medicalxpress.com

New ways of reducing antibiotics in primary care

...unnecessarily. This facilitates the emergence of antibiotic resistance. That is why researchers at the University of Basel led by Heiner C. Bucher are specifically sensitizing family doctors, who prescribe antibiotics...

The Korea Herald

Basel and Seoul agree to cooperate on innovation

...medical startups with overseas competitiveness jointly with the Seoul metropolitan government and the University of Basel and supports clinical and nonclinical research in Switzerland at the University of Basel...

techxplore.com

A computational shortcut for neural networks

by Oliver Morsch, University of Basel Neural networks (centre) can be used to investigate phase transitions, for instance of magnetic materials (arrows). Credit: Department of Physics, University of...

drugs.com

Happiness From Home Buying Is Often Fleeting, Study Shows

...author Alois Stutzer. He is director of the Center for Research in Economics and Well-Being at the University of Basel, in Switzerland. The sobering reality was that people tend to “over-estimate their future...

Science.org

Big COVID-19 waves may be coming, new Omicron strains suggest

...Probably multiple things are coming,” says Cornelius Roemer, who studies viral evolution at the University of Basel. Whether they will also lead to many hospitalizations and deaths is the big question. ...

phys.org

Developing ultracold circuits: Physicists set a new low-temperature record

...thermometer along with a scale bar can be seen in the center of the image (golden rectangle). Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics When materials are cooled down to extremely low temperatures,...

The Economic Times

Study suggests owning home leads to lesser happiness than expected

...it's intended as an investment in happiness. Prof. Dr Alois Stutzer and Dr Reto Odermatt of the University of Basel's Faculty of Business and Economics examined whether home-buyers expected to increase in...

Science.org

For now, the monkeypox virus

...genomes is more complex than the RNA viruses,” says Richard Neher, a computational biologist at the University of Basel. “It will be more important than with SARS-CoV-2 that people share their raw data.” Still,...

British Journal of Photography

Meet the winners of Carte Blanche 2022: Sumi Anjuman, Jérémie Danon, Alessandra Leta, and Philip Tsetinis

...testimonies while decontextualizing them from reality, through imaginary spaces.” Alessandra Leta University of Basel, Switzerland In The Unmovable Mover Alessandra Leta investigates the power dynamics within...

womanandhome.com

Why do I keep waking up early?

...internal body clock that it's time to wake up. Light is particularly key here, explains a study by the University of Basel (opens in new tab), as sunlight is one of the key factors that influences the circadian...

Daily Mail

How you can grow little grey cells that could help tackle depression and anxiety WITHOUT the need for medication

...more intense than you would get indoors. In a small study published in July, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland allocated 22 women with severe post-natal depression to either 30 minutes...

todayuknews.com

Some screen use before bedtime might be OK for your sleep after all

...hormone melatonin that usually makes you feel drowsy. To dig a little deeper, Christine Blume at the University of Basel in Switzerland and her colleagues wanted to test whether blue light that affects only intrinsically...

bionity.com (eng.)

Insufficient insulin processing leads to overweight

...increases the risk of an imbalance in sugar metabolism and even of diabetes. A research group at the University of Basel has now shown the opposite is true as well: deficits in the body’s insulin production contribute...

phys.org

Researchers succeed in coupling two types of electron-hole pairs

...Richard Warburton of the Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) of the University of Basel have coupled these two types of electron-hole pairs by bringing the two of them to similar...

NewScientist

Some screen use before bedtime might be OK for your sleep after all

Christine Blume at the University of Basel in Switzerland and her colleagues wanted to test whether blue light that affects only intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) in the eyes would have any effect on subsequent sleep quality.

blogarama.com

Obesity can be caused by impaired insulin production during the early stages of type 2.

...Obesity can increase the risk of diabetes and a sugar metabolism imbalance. Recent research by the University of Basel showed that obesity can also be caused by insufficient insulin production. Lifestyle factors...

Mint

Inadequate insulin production leads to obesity: Study

...inadequacies in the body's insulin production also contribute to obesity, according to a study group at the University of Basel as quoted by news agency ANI. It stated that poor nutrition, very less movement, and...

ScienceDaily

Insufficient insulin processing leads to overweight

...increases the risk of an imbalance in sugar metabolism and even of diabetes. A research group at the University of Basel has now shown the opposite is true as well: deficits in the body's insulin production contribute...

Al Jazeera

The economy still centre stage ahead of Angola’s elections

...economist at University Agostinho Neto in Luanda. But Jon Schubert, a political anthropologist at the University of Basel, says he thinks the ruling MPLA has yet to demonstrate the political will to end Angola’s...

Daily Mail

Body of Angolan ex-president due in Luanda amid tense election campaign

...monopolise the media, as usual," Jon Schubert, a political anthropologist and Angola expert at the University of Basel, told Reuters, referring to the repatriation of Dos Santos' body. Most Angolan media is...

U.S. News & World Report

Unequal and Divided, Angola Braces for Tense Election

...affect people very directly ... haven't been solved," Jon Schubert, an anthropology professor at the University of Basel. "The cost of living is very high and salaries are worth a third of what they were six...

Reuters (USA)

Explainer: What is at stake for investors in Angola's elections?

...political will to end Angola's dependency on oil, said Jon Schubert, a political anthropologist at the University of Basel. UNITA has promised to end the "concentration of the economy in a single political and...

Psychology Today

5 Surprising Ways Gut Health Affects Mental Health

...Source: Source: Alicia Harper/Pexels 3. Probiotics Enhance Antidepressants Scientists from the University of Basel and the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK) reported in the journal Translational...

Forbes Magazine

Real Estate Metaverse Real Estate Under Water

...very high likelihood that you're going to lose everything,” says Fabian Schär, a professor at the University of Basel and the managing director at the school’s Center for Innovative Finance. Most corporate...

Psychology Today

Three Natural Remedies Shown to Help Depression and Anxiety

... Source: OpenClipart-Vectors/Pixabay The Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis A research team from the University of Basel and the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK) has reported in the journal Translational...

Forbes (US)

Careers Do Young People Just Need To Have A Dream?

...future and an underlying pessimism about what prospects are in store for them. Research from the University of Basel suggests underlines the importance of aspirations to the career of any young person. Indeed,...

WRS

Four Swiss universities to join EU higher education scheme

...alliances, alongside CIVIS2, of which the University of Lausanne is a member, and EPICUR, linked to the University of Basel. The University of Geneva is associated with the ‘ICORE’ alliance, which aims to offer...

phys.org

Ambitious career aspirations: A balancing act between success and disappointment

...occupational aspirations, as shown by a new study co-authored by economist Dr. Reto Odermatt of the University of Basel. Unrealistically high aspirations as a teenager, however, can have a negative effect on...

Newsweek

Carbon Dioxide-Storing Bacterial Enzyme May Help Fight Climate Change

...change. luminous-lab.com/Zenger/Verena Resch The team, led by Dr. Ben Engel at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel in Switzerland along with colleagues from the Universities of Frankfurt and Marburg in...

Forbes (US)

Careers Shifting Our Aging Society From A Burden To An Asset

...that the stereotypes become self-fulfilling. It's perhaps no great surprise that research from the University of Basel finds that such an environment makes older workers feel excluded from the workforce. Of...

Mirror

Brain reaction to smell of food makes it harder for obese people to regulate weight, study claims

...obese was "excessive", slowing insulin output and making it more difficult to regulate weight. The University of Basel study measured the output of one inflammatory chemical (IL-1β) within the body of mice,...

Wired

How Heat Waves Are Messing Up Your Sleep

...know that cooler temperatures support deep sleep,” says Christine Blume, a sleep scientist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. So when our ability to regulate body temperature is impaired because it...

medicalnewstoday.com

Obesity: Is the sight or smell of food enough to trigger inflammation in the brain?

...has been recognized for some time, but the mechanisms involved were unclear. Now, a study from the University of Basel has shown that a short-term inflammatory response is responsible for this early insulin...

Jerusalem Post

Food for thought: The brain changes by just looking at a meal- study

...smell of a meal triggers a series of responses in the body, according to the novel findings by the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel. Most are familiar with the mouthwatering sensation prior...

The Diplomat

Botakoz Kassymbekova and Erica Marat on Russia’s ‘Imperial Myth’

...strip away that fantasy and see the past for what it truly was. Kassymbekova, a lecturer at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and Marat, an associate professor at the National Defense University’s...

techexplorist.com

Photon Storage in a Ground-State Vapor Cell Quantum Memory

...the control laser pulse and thereby initiates the storage process. (Image: Department of Physics/University of Basel) Single photons are ideal carriers of quantum information, especially because they are...

allafrica.com

Angola Election 2022 - 'Dirty Tricks' As Election Nears

...Commission will not act independently. UNITA plans its own vote count Jon Schubert, a researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland, expressed similar views. "The formation of the 'United Patriotic Front...

Daily Mail

Credit Suisse must pay almost £18m for failing to stop laundering of Bulgarian drug money

...Switzerland’s efforts to clean up its banking industry. Mark Pieth, a money laundering expert at the University of Basel, said: ‘What is significant about this case is that Switzerland is taking legal action...

startupticker.ch

NextImmune wins CHF 150,000 to develop a new generation of immunosuppressive drugs

...responses while maintaining the immune responses needed to defend against infections and cancers. The University of Basel spin-off will use the CHF 150,000 Venture Kick financing to reach the next value inflection...

Newsweek

Trench Fever That Affected Tolkien, C.S. Lewis Could Be Prevented: Scientists

...States, France, and Burundi. Now, a team of experts in molecular and biomedical research at the University of Basel in Switzerland have detected neutralizing antibodies that bring bacterial infections to...

csrwire.com

Why Reforestation Is More Complicated Than You Think

...down or destroyed,” notes Ansgar Kahmen, a botanist and professor of environmental science at the University of Basel who studies how reforestation changes in the face of a changing climate. “I think we’re...

Guardian

Wrist-worn trackers can detect Covid before symptoms, study finds

...the disease more widely. Researchers from the Dr Risch Medical Laboratory in Liechtenstein, the University of Basel in Switzerland, McMaster University in Canada and Imperial College London tested the Ava...

Time Magazine

Ukraine’s Women Refugees Face the Harsh Reality of Poland’s Abortion Restrictions

...by others,” says Ukrainian academic and member Marta Havryshko, who is also a URIS Fellow at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “We have many, many cases.” Since coming to power in 2015, Poland’s right-wing...

Inverse

Ancient stalagmites point to a massive drought that upturned 6th century Arabia

...co-author Dominik Fleitmann tells Inverse. Fleitmann is a geologist and paleoclimatologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. The Himyarite Kingdom ruled over the portion of the Arabian Peninsula...

Materials Today

Separate quantum dots generate identical photons

An artistic representation of separate quantum dots emitting identical photons. Image: University of Basel, Department of Physics. Identical light particles (photons) are important for many technologies...

Daily Express

Supplements: Probiotics may help to alleviate depression – early signs

...Furthermore, scientists are now looking into whether diet can have an impact too. Researchers from the University of Basel were looking into the role intestinal flora (gut microbiota) play in overall health. ...

The Star Online - Malaysia News

Seen from space, the snow-capped Alps are going green due to climate change

...honestly, to find such a huge trend in greening,” said first author Sabine Rumpf, an ecologist at the University of Basel. Greening is a well-recognised phenomenon in the Arctic, but until now hadn’t been well...

openforum.com.au

Russia’s rape of Ukraine

...an emergency fellowship at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and is now a URIS Fellow at Basel University. In her seminar, Dr Havryshko theorised that the frequency, nature, and effects of sexual...

scientificinquirer.com

Droughts in the sixth century paved the way for Islam.

...contributed to the decline of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Himyar. Researchers from the University of Basel have reported these findings in the journal Science. Combined with political unrest and...

Haaretz (en)

Megadrought Contributed to Fall of Jewish Kingdom in Arabia, Rise of Islam, Study Suggests

...demise of Himyar and the emergence of Islam,” says Professor Dominik Fleitmann, a geologist from the University of Basel in Switzerland and the lead author on the study. Map of the ancient South Arabian kingdom...

Daily Mail

Extreme DROUGHTS on the Arabian peninsula paved the way for the rise of Islam in the seventh century, study reveals

...kingdom of Aksum (now Ethiopia), suggests a relationship between the two events The experts from the University of Basel in Switzerland therefore believe that extreme drought may have been decisive in contributing...

phys.org

Twin photons from different quantum dots

...dots of the Basel researchers are different, they emit exactly identical light particles. Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Identical light particles (photons) are important for many technologies...

neurosciencenews.com

Good Bacteria to Tackle Depression

...Intestinal flora plays an important role in health – including mental health. Researchers from the University of Basel and the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK) have shown that probiotics can support...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Molecules found in mucus can thwart fungal infection

...them. Key members of the research team also include Rachel Hevey, a research associate at the University of Basel; Micheal Tiemeyer, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University...

India Today

Climate change: Alps turning green, vanishing snow cover visible from space

...productivity in the European Alps. The team, which had researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel found that the reduction in snow cover is visible from space as triggered by the melting...

The Atlantic

We Should Have Seen Monkeypox Coming

...mutations as “scars” from battling with the host immune system, says Richard Neher, a biologist at the University of Basel, though it’s impossible to say whether any could also be adaptive. In any case, monkeypox...

metro.co.uk

‘Absolutely massive’ consequences of climate change in the Alps visible from space

...Arctic – the mountain range is turning green. Researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel used satellite data to show that vegetation above the tree line has increased in nearly...

Al Arabiya (en.)

Consequences of climate change in the Alps now visible from space: Research

...researchers have found in a damning new report. Researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel used satellite data to show that, just like the Arctic, the snowy Alpine mountain range...

Daily Mail

Climate change is melting the ALPS: Satellite images reveal how the European mountain range is becoming greener amid rising temperatures

...conditions will out-compete many Alpine plants, researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel said. They also discovered that snow cover had decreased significantly in almost 10 per...

gizmodo.com

The Alps Are Getting Ominously Greener

...research, which is published in the journal Science this week. Sabine Rumpf, assistant professor at the University of Basel, led the study. The team collected satellite images taken of the Alps from 1984 to 2021,...

Guardian

Global heating is turning white Alps green, study finds

...the change has turned out to be absolutely massive in the Alps,” said Prof Sabine Rumpf, of the University of Basel, and lead author of the paper which was published in Science. Mountain areas are heating...

chemeurope.com

From the packet into your food: what harmful substances are in food packaging?

...substances that can be transferred to its contents. It also includes findings from researchers at the University of Basel, who are investigating plastic molecules that were previously unknown or barely known....

Newsweek

Why Do I Get Depressed at Night?

...biochemistry following a 24-hour pattern," a chronobiologist from the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, Switzerland, told Newsweek. "Our mood, alertness, performance, well-being—as examples—follow...

nature

Flu vaccine could cut COVID risk

...was posted to the medRxiv.org preprint server on 10 May. Günther Fink, an epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, says the Qatar analysis reduces the odds that other studies which uncovered...

phys.org

Quantum one-way street in topological insulator nanowires

...current to flow more easily in one direction along the nanowire than in the opposite one. Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Very thin wires made of a topological insulator could enable highly...

ScienceDaily

When unconscious, the brain is anything but 'silent'

...paper recently published in Neuron, researchers from the group of Professor Botond Roska at the University of Basel and the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology (IOB) reveal how different cell...

Al Arabiya (en.)

Switzerland has frozen a total of $6.3 billion in Russian assets to date

...Russian riches over the past two decades has come under scrutiny. Mark Pieth, a law professor at the University of Basel and a corruption expert, said the Swiss authorities had shown a “lack of courage” to date...

myScience Schweiz

Assess and predict the quality of drinking water

Oliver Schilling spends most of his working time at the University of Basel, where he has been gathering his research group around him as a new assistant professor of hydrogeology since the beginning of...

swissinfo (engl.)

Looming bacterial pandemic triggers debate over how to pay for new antibiotics

Basel alone hosts 18 university-based research groups working on antimicrobial resistance as well as collaborative ventures like NCCR AntiResist, which received CHF17 million from the government-backed Swiss National Science Foundation to discover new approaches to antibiotics.

menafn.com

2MB field notes from Antarctica

...there: rising plastic pollution. This spring, Gabriel Erni Cassola and Kevin Leuenberger from the University of Basel are on board the German icebreaker“PolarsternExternal link” in the Southern Ocean that...

ScienceDaily

Multiple treatments to slow age-related muscle wasting

...declines. Some older people suffer from excessive muscle loss, a condition known as sarcopenia. University of Basel researchers show that a combination therapy could delay the onset of sarcopenia. advertisement...

Time Magazine

Ukrainians Are Speaking Up About Rape as a War Crime to Ensure the World Holds Russia Accountable

...in contemporary history at the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies and a URIS Fellow at Basel University. “Russian soldiers are trying to send a signal to the whole community: we are the winners,...

dw.com (en.)

Switzerland to launch 1st cannabis sale pilot in summer

...government said. The project, which involves authorities and researchers from the local government, the University of Basel and the University Psychiatric Clinics, Basel, will run for two and a half years. Health...

The New Stack

Scientists Look to Control Quantum State Without Measuring It

...and waves, unlike in classical systems. Researchers from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute of the University of Basel are now looking into how to get around these issues, by taking advantage of the quantum...

Newsweek

New Omicron Sub-Types BA.4 and BA.5 May Be More Able to Dodge Antibodies

...there's always the first time." In addition, Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, tweeted on Wednesday: "I see a lot of public worry around BA.4/BA.5 that...

swissinfo (engl.)

Why are we looking at plastic pollution in the Antarctic?

Plastic pollution has been detected wherever scientists have looked for it; from the depths of the ocean to the snow in the Alps, and from the North to the South Pole. But if plastic “is everywhere”, then why go to Antarctica to study this form of pollution?

businesswire.com

Versant Ventures Launches Cimeio Therapeutics with $50 Million Series A

...developed in the labs of founder Lukas Jeker, M.D., Ph.D., Professor at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Head of Experimental Transplantation Immunology & Nephrology at the Basel University...

FierceBiotech

Cimeio exits stealth with $50M, but its cell therapy technology aims to stay incognito

...Lukas Jeker, M.D., Ph.D., professor of experimental transplantation immunology and nephrology at the University of Basel. Fuchs believes Cimeio’s technology has significant therapeutic potential, and, if successful,...

nzz.ch

Aktien sind auch für Rentner ein Thema

...einem deutlich geringeren gemessenen Risiko. Erwin W. Heri, Professor für Finanztheorie an der Universität Basel und Gründungsmitglied der Finanzausbildungsplattform Fintool.ch, sagt: «Für eine zielorientierte...

Mint

Central banks that enter the cryptosphere could save DeFi

...others. Much of what passes as DeFi today is just “decentralization theatre," as Fabian Schar, a University of Basel professor of blockchain, describes it. In theory, this hot new crypto corner wasn’t envisioned...

Bloomberg.com

Central Banks Can Save DeFi, as Weird as That Sounds

...others. Much of what passes as DeFi today is just “decentralization theater,” as Fabian Schar, a University of Basel professor of blockchain, describes it. In theory, this hot new crypto corner wasn’t envisioned...

Washington Post

Central Banks Can Save DeFi, as Weird as That Sounds

...others. Much of what passes as DeFi today is just “decentralization theater,” as Fabian Schar, a University of Basel professor of blockchain, describes it. In theory, this hot new crypto corner wasn’t envisioned...

bloombergquint.com

Switzerland’s Russia Wealth Hunt Earns Criticism Despite $6 Billion Haul

...real oversight on the part of the Swiss government, says Mark Pieth, a former law professor at the University of Basel and an anti-corruption expert. Sanctions were first imposed on Russians with assets in...

menafn.com

Switzerland must regulate its opaque shipping industry

...killing more than 200 people. Kathrin Betz is an attorney and a lecturer in criminal law at the University of Basel. zVg SWI: Why is it so opaque? M.P.: There is a range of theories. The most banal is...

swissinfo (engl.)

Switzerland must regulate its opaque shipping industry

Landlocked Switzerland is an important shipping centre and therefore a significant maritime power. A new book explains how this came about and why the industry needs to be better regulated.

News Medical

Researchers present a possible therapeutic approach for severe congenital myopathy

...disorders often never learn to walk. Until now, there was no chance of recovery, but researchers at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel are now presenting a possible therapeutic approach for the...

techxplore.com

Silicon FinFETs hosting hole spin qubits at temperatures over 4 Kelvin

...spins, which are known to degrade the coherence of spin qubits in quantum computers. Researchers at University of Basel and IBM Research-Zurich have recently explored the possibility of hosting spin qubits in...

nanotech-now.com

“Hot” spin quantum bits in silicon transistors

...challenges in developing this kind of powerful computer is scalability. A research group at the University of Basel, working with the IBM Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, has made a breakthrough in this...

menafn.com

What the Ukraine war means for Switzerland's energy policy

...against Russia have destabilised the energy supply,” says Aya Kachi, professor of energy policy at the University of Basel. Gas makes up roughly 15% of Switzerland's final energy consumption and is mostly used...

sciencealert.com

There's One Simple Aspect of Daily Life Tied to Better Wellbeing, Study Hints

...improve subjective wellbeing," explained clinical and health psychologist Andrew Gloster from the University of Basel. The findings add to a limited body of research on the effects of everyday activities...

todayuknews.com

Is the Ukraine war intensifying regulatory pressure on crypto firms?

...may seem at first glance,” Fabian Schär, professor in the business and economics department at the University of Basel, told Cointelegraph, although users have other options even if projects are not fully decentralized....

israelnationalnews.com

Switzerland to create memorial to victims of Nazism

...Swiss Jewish Community, the Christian-Jewish Working Group and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Basel. The conceptual proposal envisions three themes: remembering, communications and networking....

Mining Technology.com

Illegal gold in the Brazilian Amazon

...as the industry relies on self-regulation,” said Mark Pieth, a professor of criminal law at the University of Basel, in Switzerland. Data, insights and analysis delivered to you View all newsletters By...

techcodex.com

7,000-year-old grains hints at origin of Swiss pile dwellings

...around the Alps. It is a mystery, however, how this “building boom” came to be. Researchers at the University of Basel have now uncovered new clues and say that settlers at Lake Varese in northern Italy may...

High Times

Few Subjective Differences Between LSD and Psilocybin Trips, Study Finds

...participants were good at identifying, in fact, was which sample was the placebo. The study was led by the University of Basel’s Matthias Liechti. Researchers observed 28 healthy participants—and about half of the...

thelocal.ch

Sanctions on Russia: Is Switzerland still a neutral nation?

...Laurent Goetschel, Director of the Swiss Peace Foundation and a Political Science Professor at the University of Basel, said the fact Switzerland was upholding international law meant that its motives could...

newatlas.com

Landmark trial compares LSD and psilocybin trips, finds few differences

...the findings of this newly published research. The new study, led by Matthias Liechti from the University of Basel, recruited 28 healthy participants, around half of whom had never taken a psychedelic drug...

Daily Mail

Apple AirPods and Microsoft's Surface Pen can interfere with pacemaker-like devices and stop life-saving gadgets from working, heart experts warn

University of Basel researchers tested how close devices could be to ICDs They found it was not safe to put them closer than about 1.1inch (2.9cm) Dr Sven Knecht, involved in the study, raised the alarm...

Physics Today

A deterministic source of single photons

...University Bochum in Germany. Richard Warburton is a professor in the department of physics at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Physics Today 75, 3, 44 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4962 ...

Drug Development & Delivery

Santhera Signs Gene Therapy Agreement With SEAL Therapeutics

...Therapeutics will advance the gene therapy technology building on existing research progress from the Biozentrum Basel and Rutgers, both previously partially funded by Innosuisse and/or Santhera. The new company...

swissinfo (engl.)

Ukraine: What Swiss sanctions-busters need to consider

...- 11:00 February 26, 2022 - 11:00 Opinion by Mark Pieth Mark Pieth, Criminal Law Professor, University of Basel When Russia invaded Ukraine, the US and the EU announced economic sanctions, whereas...

sharecast.com (UK)

Poll results for Ukrainians' support for Nato membership and non-aligned status are mixed

...the choice is less clear than one might assume. According to Serhiy Kudelia, a URIS fellow at the University of Basel in Switzerland, as recently as November 21, public support for Nato membership was running...

The Namibian

The 1896 Redline – A Brief History

...later discovered at Epukiro, Grootfontein and in Windhoek. Giorgio Miescher, an historian at the University of Basel who wrote insightfully on the redline, said it seemed that rinderpest entered the territory...

Swiss Medical Weekly

Fair access to assistive technology? Gaps in transition from invalidity to old-age insurance in Switzerland

...Header image: © Yongnian Gui | Dreamstime.com Christopher Poppe Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland Andrea Martani Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland...

startupticker.ch

BaseLaunch invests CHF 1.5 million in three new startups

...Therapeutics and InCephalo Therapeutics. Aukera Therapeutics – is a spin-off from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, founded in 2021 by Stefan Imseng and Dritan Liko. The company is building a discovery...

Technology Networks

Magnesium Levels May Impact the Immune System Response

...of which is bound to proteins,” Christoph Hess, professor in the department of biomedicine at the University of Basel and the department of medicine at the University of Cambridge, told Technology Networks....

Russia Matters

NATO or Bust: Why Do Ukraine’s Leaders Dismiss Neutrality as a Security Strategy?

When Russia’s invasion of Crimea in spring of 2014 put Ukraine at the center of a renewed confrontation between Moscow and the West, leading U.S. strategic thinkers argued that Ukraine’s adoption of a permanent neutral status could defuse the crisis.

The New York Times

Swiss Banker’s Trial Rivets With Fraud Charges and Strip Club Visits

...will be rendered by the case’s three trial judges. Sabine Gless, a criminal law professor at the University of Basel, said it was hard to predict how the court would rule. “Many people think what has gone...

Exact Release

Omicron – and then?

...according to researchers it causes milder disease progression on average. Richard Neher from the University of Basel emphasizes that there is no direct connection between the severity of the disease and transmissibility....

Ars Technica

Atomic cloud key to controlling a quantum state without measuring it

...(center foreground) alter a laser so it extracts energy from a membrane (blue). Departement Physik, Universität Basel Way back when I was still working in the lab, there was a lot of buzz about something called...

Medical Dialogues

Prolonged use of Bed nets saves from Malaria, increases survival: NEJM

...between groups. Dr Günther Fink, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Household Economics at the University of Basel and Swiss TPH, and first author, said: "It's so important to be able to go back and find...

chemeurope.com

Cooling matter from a distance

University of Basel, Department of Physics Light is used to couple a vibrating membrane to a cloud of atoms in order to form a control loop. The two different quantum systems — consisting of the membrane...

News Medical

Study provides unique insight into long-term benefits of malaria control in children

...between groups. Dr Günther Fink, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Household Economics at the University of Basel and Swiss TPH, and first author, said: “It’s so important to be able to go back and find...

sky.com

Use of mosquito nets in malaria-prone countries helps children reach adulthood, study says It had been thought that preventing malaria infections in children left them with no immunity as they got older, simply delaying illness and possible ...

...the disease. Dr Gunther Fink, associate professor of epidemiology and household economics at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and first author, said: "It is reassuring...

Science Magazine

Malaria-preventing bed nets save children’s lives—with impacts that can last for decades

Babies and infants who slept under bed nets still have a survival advantage 20 years later

ScienceDaily

Safeguarding the cell nucleus

...transport of substances from the cytoplasm to the cell nucleus and back. A research group at the University of Basel has now shown that different shuttle proteins occupy the nuclear pore to prevent unsolicited...

Business Standard

Covid: Here's how Omicron variant could have evolved

...feeling rather than any sort of principled argument", Richard Neher, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, was quoted as saying. Researchers agree that Omicron is a recent arrival....

nature

Where did Omicron come from? Three key theories

...rather than any sort of principled argument”, says Richard Neher, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “They are all fair game,” says Jinal Bhiman, a medical scientist at the...

The Sun

SNACK HAPPY The 6 popular snacks that can cut risk of dying from cancer

...chocolate A banana Peanut butter on bread or with fruit Greek yoghurt Researchers from the University of Basel, Switzerland, say that the level of magnesium in the body is an important factor in the...

bionity.com (eng.)

New rapid test could detect coronavirus and flu simultaneously

Researchers from the University of Basel and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a rapid test for Covid-19 with a novel functional principle. Although it requires further testing and improvements,...

Fortune Magazine

‘Stealth Omicron’ vs Omicron: What we know about the latest variant and how it differs from the original

...will still give a positive result," Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at Switzerland's University of Basel, wrote on Twitter. “[It's] frustrating to see falsehood about non-detectability still around."...

phys.org

New, better coronavirus rapid test

...Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Basel have developed a rapid test for COVID-19. Its novel functional principle promises reliable...

Newsweek

Stealth Omicron COVID Variant BA.2 That May Spread Faster Found in at Least 40 Countries

...to its "stealth Omicron" monicker. However, Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, tweeted last week that BA.2 is still detectable on PCR tests and branded...

medicalnewstoday.com

Magnesium may prime the immune system to fight cancer and infections

...bind to infected or abnormal cells,” explains senior author Dr. Christoph Hess, Ph.D., from the University of Basel in Switzerland and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. “If magnesium is...

The Namibian

Knowledge freed from colonial frames

...stakeholders. A first concrete step is the “Portal for African Research Collections”, based at the University of Basel library, with the BAB's Namibia focus implying a strong outreach to Namibian libraries...

Fortune Magazine

What is ‘stealth Omicron’? The rise of the subvariant is alarming some scientists who say it needs its own Greek letter

...will still give a positive result," Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at Switzerland's University of Basel, wrote on Twitter. “[It's] frustrating to see falsehood about non-detectability still around."...

ScienceDaily

Magnesium is essential for the immune system, including in the fight against cancer

...ability to tackle pathogens and cancer cells. Writing in the journal Cell, researchers from the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel have reported that T cells need a sufficient quantity of...

Mirror

Eating dark chocolate could help people fend off cancer, new study shows

...in green vegetables, wholemeal bread, nuts, avocado and brown rice. Author Prof Christoph Hess, of Basel University in Switzerland, said: “In order to verify this observation clinically [in patients] we’re...

Los Angeles Times

Tarnished Gold: Illegal Amazon gold seeps into supply chains

...as the industry relies on self-regulation,” said Mark Pieth, a professor of criminal law at the University of Basel in Switzerland and author of the 2018 book “Gold Laundering.” “People know where the gold...

BBC Radio 5 Live

The Naked Scientist - Listening vs hearing

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hungarytoday.hu

Returning Vision to The Fully Blind – Interview with Dr. Botond Roska

...Institute for Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) in Switzerland and a Professor at the University of Basel. In 2019, he was awarded the Order of Saint Stephen, the highest national honor bestowed...

news24 (zu)

Scientists discover new human body part – that helps us chew

...are extremely inconsistent as to its position.” And upon investigation, the scientists from the University of Basel, Switzerland, succeeded in finding this deep layer in the jaw muscle. They say that their...

Jerusalem Post

Scientists discover new part of the human body - study

...results were, quite frankly, jaw-dropping. In fact, according to one of the researchers involved, University of Basel's Prof. Jens Christoph Türp, it's as if a new animal species had been found. The investigations...

IFL Science

A New Part Of The Human Body Has Been Discovered

...layer that the team, led by Türp and Dr Szilvia Mezey from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel, have finally discovered. The new muscle is located between the back of the cheekbones...

Jerusalem Post

Scientists discover new part of the human body - study

...results were, quite frankly, jaw-dropping. In fact, according to one of the researchers involved, University of Basel's Prof. Jens Christoph Türp, it's as if a new animal species had been found. The investigations...

drugs.com

'You Didn't Tag Me!' Instagram Snubs Hurt, Study Confirms

...study author Christiane Büttner. She's a PhD candidate in the department of social psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. And her research, she said, revealed that feeling excluded in the "digital...

infacts.org

Don’t envy Switzerland

...more realistic view now on what all of this means,” says Christa Tobler, a law professor at the University of Basel and an expert on Switzerland’s agreements with the EU. “Swiss people have seen very unpleasant...

ScienceDaily

New muscle layer discovered on the jaw

Human anatomy still has a few surprises in store for us: researchers at the University of Basel have discovered a previously overlooked section of our jaw muscles and described this layer in detail for...

The Hill

Researchers discover new muscle layer in humans' jaws

Story at a glance Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland found a previously overlooked section of the masseter muscle. The newly discovered layer runs from the back of the cheekbone to...

medicalxpress.com

New muscle layer discovered on the jaw

by University of Basel The newly discovered muscle layer runs from the back of the cheekbone to the anterior muscular process of the lower jaw. (S= superficial layer, D= deep layer, C= coronoid layer)....

startupticker.ch

CHF 150,000 to advance personalized therapies for Alzheimer’s disease

...managers and experts: Osmani served in several management positions before completing his PhD at the University of Basel. Rolf Wildermuth, former country president of Medtronic Switzerland, serves as chairman...

ScienceDaily

An enemy within: Pathogens hide in tissue

...cure many bacterial infections. However, some patients suffer a relapse. A research group at the University of Basel has now discovered why some bacteria can survive antibiotic therapy. The team uncovered...

techexplorist.com

Activity in brain while switching between hearing and listening

...and active listening. What if the brain switches to listening from hearing? Researchers at the University of Basel have traced the neuronal fingerprint of the two types of sound processing in the mouse...

Daily Mail

Economists call for Swiss National Bank to create $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund

...the SNB would intervene in a truly unlimited fashion," said Yvan Lengwiler, an economist at the University of Basel and a former economic advisor to the SNB. The SNB, which reviews monetary policy on Thursday,...

ScienceDaily

When the brain switches from hearing to listening

...in the brain when simply hearing becomes listening? To answer this question, researchers at the University of Basel have traced the neuronal fingerprint of the two types of sound processing in the mouse...

phys.org

An enemy within: Pathogens hide in tissue

...Salmonella survive antibiotic therapy in the white pulp (red) of the spleen. Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel Antibiotics cure many bacterial infections. However, some patients suffer a relapse....

Daily Mail

Scientists studying microplastics in Antarctica discover that 89 per cent of samples analysed came from the paint on their OWN SHIP

University of Basel-led experts studied microplastics in the remote Weddell Sea The team collected a total of 113 samples of water from the surface and beneath They filtered out 770 microplastic particles,...

thelocal.ch

‘2G’: Will Switzerland further tighten the Covid certificate?

...of tests, vaccinations and booster vaccinations”, according to Richard Neher, a biologist at the University of Basel. Elected officials are also speaking in favour of the ‘vaccinated and recovered only’...

innovationnewsnetwork.com

Locating microplastics in Antarctica

Researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred-Wegener Institute have revealed that it takes precise analysis to answer the question of where microplastics originate. Microplastics can be found...

chemeurope.com

Tracking down microplastics in Antarctica

...small particles come from, a research team from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel and the Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI) at the Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research...

phys.org

Tracking down microplastics in Antarctica

...is rinsed off before sampling to remove any particles that may have adhered beforehand. Credit: University of Basel, Patricia Holm Microplastics are everywhere, even in the most remote places. Where do...

phys.org

Women are less blinded by attractiveness than men

...Department of Psychology at the University of Freiburg together with Dr. Mirella Walker from the University of Basel in Switzerland. In their experiment, men and women were asked to decide, based on portrait...

Markets Insider

"On-Surface Shapeshifters" Exhibit Oxidation-State-Dependent Conformational and Self-assembly Behaviors: WPI-MANA

...research was completed by David Miklik (WPI-MANA) and S. Fatemeh Mousavi (Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland) under the leadership of Thomas Jung (Laboratory of Micro- and Nanotechnology,...

Daily Mail

Blood taken from runners can slow down dementia: Transfusion could be ground-breaking treatment for Alzheimer's disease, experts say

...50 women in labour, according to the recent study in the journal Midwifery. The researchers, from Basel University in Switzerland, say further trials are needed to identify the best positioning and, critically,...

Daily Mail

It's no joke! Why faking a LAUGH could help you beat anxiety as research shows people feel less stressed after a good giggle

...Professor Scott. These chemical changes make us calmer while we laugh — and afterwards. A 2020 study by Basel University, Switzerland, found that the more people laughed during a day, the less they felt affected...

swissinfo (engl.)

Epidemiologists sceptical over stricter Covid certificate rules

...winter without overloading the health system, he said. Virus evolution expert Richard Neher, of the University of Basel, was more open to 2G, as current Swiss measures against the coronavirus were not enough...

archyworldys.com

Decision at the climate summit – This is how countries want to save the forests – the overview – News

...environment in recent years,” says Christian Körner, an expert in botany and biodiversity at the University of Basel. The forest should not be reduced to its carbon stocks: “It is an incredibly rich habitat...

The Wall Street Journal

Are Entrepreneurs Happier Than Everybody Else?

...They work harder than they expect they will. Alois Stutzer, professor of political economy at the University of Basel in Switzerland, analyzed survey data from over 1,000 German entrepreneurs between 1991...

swissinfo (engl.)

Amateur archeologist uncovers Roman battle site

...case after discovering a 2,000-year-old Roman dagger. This alerted an archeology team from the University of Basel who have found several hundred other objects during an ongoing search of the 35,000 square...

The Vancouver Sun

‘Honey laundering’ and other food fraud costs billions. Now there's a new way to fight it

...Mexican-grown tomatoes sold as Canadian Using strawberries as their test case, botanists at the University of Basel have developed an efficient, low-cost approach to confirming claims of geographical origin....

BYU Radio

An App to Help You Overcome Arachnophobia

Snakes, heights, germs, do you have any phobias? Fear of spiders is one of the most common, and since we’re seeing a lot of them lurking in Halloween décor this time of year, we were intrigued by some work being done by Anja Zimmer at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

swissinfo (engl.)

SNB Leadership Absence Prompts Call for Governance Reform

...relying on such a small group of policy makers. Yvan Lengwiler, a professor of macroeconomics at the University of Basel, said the organization’s governance structure needs reform to make it more accountable....

ScienceDaily

Sustainable farming: There’s no one solution

Sustainable agriculture will not be achieved by one universal solution. A meta-analysis by the University of Basel shows that the current focus on no-till farming does not achieve the desired results. A...

myScience Schweiz

Sustainable farming: There’s no one solution

... Sustainable agriculture will not be achieved by one universal solution. A meta-analysis by the University of Basel shows that the current focus on no-till farming does not achieve the desired results. A...

Food Technology Manufacturing

Food fraud detection: a low-cost approach

...2021 Food fraud can cause billions of dollars in economic damage every year. Now botanists at the University of Basel have developed a model that can be used to determine the origin of food in a low-cost manner....

ArchDaily (US)

Biozentrum Research Building University of Basel / Ilg Santer Architekten

Biozentrum Research Building University of Basel / Ilg Santer Architekten © Daisuke Hirabayashi xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Share https://www.archdaily.com/969945/biozentrum-research-building-...

myScience Schweiz

An efficient and low-cost approach to detecting food fraud

...of geographical origin, cause billions of dollars in economic damage every year. Botanists at the University of Basel have now developed a model that can be used to determine the origin of food in an efficient...

WebMD

Scared of Spiders? There’s an App for That

...because they can't bring themselves to voluntarily seek out contact with spiders. Scientists at the University of Basel in Switzerland developed Phobys with this in mind. The app offers people with arachnophobia...

myScience International

Financial rewards lead to higher vaccination uptake

...Incentives Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations Science (2021), abm0475 Dr. Armando N. Meier, University of Basel/University of Lausanne, Unisanté, tel. +41 79 368 53 46 , email: armando.meier@unibas.ch Dr. Florian...

swissinfo (engl.)

Will we ever know the truth about the origin of the coronavirus?

...from around the world – including Richard Neher, a professor and expert on virus evolution at the University of Basel – called for the investigation to continue in a more objective and transparent manner in...

swissinfo (engl.)

NoWhiteSaviors: Is ‘white aid’ colonialist?

...development cooperation is structured,” says Elisio Macamo, Professor for Sociology and African Studies at Basel University. Colonial structures are still present in developing countries. For instance, aid flows...

swissinfo (engl.)

Nano Ex Machina

...realistic is the story you just read? An expert from the Swiss nanoscience institute SNI at the University of Basel explains why nanoparticles will never take over the human mind, yet they will be essential...

Scientific American

Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat Physical Pain?

...had a role in this effect. Two of the scientists who conducted this study, Matthias Liechti of the University of Basel and Kim Kuypers of Maastricht University, are currently working with MindMed on its LSD...

ScienceDaily

How mercury gets into the sea

...industry enters the sea and from there makes its way into the food chain. Now, an analysis by the University of Basel has revealed how the harmful substance enters seawater in the first place. This is not...

archinect.com

The New Research Building Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland

MADE-TO-MEASURE – THE NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART RESEARCH BUILDING BIOZENTRUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BASEL. The University of Basel's Biozentrum is one of the world's leading institutes for basic molecular and...

Mental Floss

Terrified of Spiders? This New AR App Can Help With Your Arachnophobia

...across their hand. The app's effectiveness is backed by science. A group of researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland developed Phobys and tested it on 66 people over the course of two weeks....

cointelegraph.com

Crypto baffles mainstream media, but should blockchain advocates care?

...of crypto assets in MSM,” Fabian Schär, professor in the business and economics department at the University of Basel, told Cointelegraph. The media’s focus seems to be cyclical, and it may be correlated with...

The New York Times

It Could Have Been a Fresh Start. But Germany Is Stuck.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 16 years in charge of Germany are coming to a close. Just not quite yet.

The New York Times

Art Basel’s Other Exhibition Hall Is a City

...Sze’s first major outdoor video work, will transform the facade of a building that is part of the University of Basel, and it will examine how, like nature, digital images have unpredictable lives of their...

fastcompany.com

Anxiety researchers have a high-tech way to help you conquer your fear of spiders

...conquering it has to be. In fact, it can now be totally virtual: Anxiety researchers from Switzerland’s University of Basel have developed an augmented reality-based smartphone app designed to help patients beat...

PC Magazine

Overcome Arachnophobia Using Augmented Reality Spiders

...evolutionary reason to feel uncomfortable around or afraid of the minibeasts, according to the team at the University of Basel; some individuals' fear develops through trauma or learned behavior. But people rarely...

Daily Mail

A cure for arachnophobia? Scientists create an augmented reality app that places a virtual 3D spider on your HAND - and say it reduces fear of arachnids in real life

...3D spider on your hand as a cure for arachnophobia. Called Phobys, the free app, created at the University of Basel in Switzerland, is available in both Apple's App Store and Google Play for Android. It...

CNET

Scientists help battle arachnophobia with augmented reality spiders

...Practice hanging out with spiders without actually hanging out with spiders with the Phobys app. University of Basel, MCN As a child and young adult, I was afraid of spiders. Jump-out-of-my-skin, flee-to-the-other-room...

The Economist

Curiouser and curiouser Adventures in DeFi-land

...arbitrage opportunities between token-trading platforms. Since their creation, says Fabian Schär of the University of Basel, the markets for most tokens have become more efficient. Two of the biggest lending protocols...

medicalxpress.com

Improving leukemia therapy with targeted treatment approaches

by University of Basel Bone marrow aspirate showing acute myeloid leukemia. Several blasts have Auer rods. Credit: Wikipedia In chronic leukemias, blocking the overactive kinase JAK2 by a targeted...

phys.org

Highly dynamic sex chromosomes in cichlid fishes

...externally, as here in Cyathopharynx foae (female left, male right). Credit: Adrian Indermaur/Zoology/University of Basel The cichlids of Lake Tanganyika in Africa are highly diverse—including with regard to...

The Hill

In a breakthrough cartilage from nose is used to treat severe knee problems

...published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the Department of Biomedicine of the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel are taking cartilage cells from the nasal septum in...

NewScientist

Cartilage from the nose used to treat two people's knee osteoarthritis

By Alice Klein Damaged cartilage in the knee has been treated with cells taken from the septum University of Basel, Christian Flierl Implants made from nose cartilage have been used to repair the knee...

STAT News

Scientists engineer nasal cartilage cells to repair aching knees

... A possible solution might be found in a person’s nose. Ivan Martin, head of biomedicine at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel, and colleagues led a study published Wednesday in Science...

Daily Express

EU threaten to be 'nastier' to Switzerland as country fumes at Brussels

...Laurent Goetschel, director of the think tank Swisspeace and professor of political science at the University of Basel offered his analysis on the talks. He told Euronews: "The Swiss would want to be part...

News Medical

Viral clearance accompanied by persistent footprints

Viruses do not always kill the cells they infect. Researchers at the University of Basel have discovered in experiments with mice that cells have the power to self-heal and eliminate viruses. However, these...

allafrica.com

Southern Africa: Rwanda's Military Intervention in Mozambique Raises Eyebrows

...between Mozambique, France, and Rwanda," says Elisio Macamo, an expert of African politics at the University of Basel. For France, moving the biggest gas project in Africa forward is vital, and Paris was even...

Healthcare Packaging

New Breath Test Determines Epilepsy Drug Regimen

...drug treatment approach for each patient. The test was developed by researchers at Switzerland’s University of Basel, and it helps outline metabolic hallmarks to help clinicians determine the efficacy of...

Materials Today

Manganese complexes offer cheap alternative to noble metals

...structures of the novel luminescent manganese complexes. Image: Jakob Bilger. Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have reached an important milestone in their quest to produce more sustainable...

jordantimes.com

Germany's homegrown Q menace

...study of the Querdenker movement, conducted by the sociologist Oliver Nachtwey and his team at the University of Basel, suggests otherwise. The study covered pandemic-related protests in Germany, Austria and...

nzz.ch

A tweet cost him his doctorate: The extent of China’s influence on Swiss universities

...only one such institute left in Switzerland, at the University of Geneva. A second was based at the University of Basel, but this was closed last autumn. In the United States too, a quarter of the country’s...

archyworldys.com

“The virus will continue to develop”: Virologists assume further corona variants – knowledge

...unsere App, die Sie hier für Apple- und Android-Geräte herunterladen können.] Richard Neher from the University of Basel is also certain: “The virus will continue to develop, as we know it from other human coronaviruses...

scientificinquirer.com

Ultrathin semiconductors electrically connected to superconductors for the first time.

For the first time, University of Basel researchers have equipped an ultrathin semiconductor with superconducting contacts. These extremely thin materials with novel electronic and optical properties could...

Materials Today

Graphene put on the rack to change electronic properties

...rack to stretch a layer of graphene in a controlled manner. Photo: Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel. The electronic properties of graphene can be specifically modified by stretching the...

phys.org

Ultrathin semiconductors are electrically connected to superconductors for the first time

by Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel The monolayer of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is sandwiched between two protective layers of boron nitride (hBN), with molybdenum rhenium (MoRe) contacts...

Daily Mail

Batavia Biosciences works with Swiss start-up on COVID-19 vaccine

...funding for its RocketVax subsidiary to help develop its vaccine candidate in cooperation with Basel University Hospital, the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, the company...

The Times (ZA)

INVESTIGATION | ANC funder-turned-MP and her ‘links’ to shadowy Chinese agency

...adding that her dream was to change SA’s fortunes. Chinese politics expert Prof Ralph Weber, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, told Sunday Times Daily: “The United Front is an important piece in the...

swissinfo (engl.)

Young smokers not deterred by ban on cigarette sales

...place in Switzerland over the past 15 years. However, bans do not make smoking more attractive, a Basel University statement said on Monday. Respondents in the study said smokers are not considered “cooler”...

Semiconductor Digest

Stretching Changes the Electronic Properties of Graphene

...graphene can be specifically modified by stretching the material evenly, say researchers at the University of Basel. These results open the door to the development of new types of electronic components....

swissinfo (engl.)

What if your future surgeon were a robot?

...Werner Siemens-Foundation, is being carried out by the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel. Werner Siemens‐Stiftung, Frank Brüderli. Switzerland, the Silicon Valley of robotics...

doctorslounge.com

Nonpharmacologic Interventions Effective for Pediatric Migraine

...migraine, according to a review recently published in Pediatrics. Helen Koechlin, Ph.D., from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues conducted a systematic review and network meta-analysis...

Daily Mail

Can staying up all night beat your insomnia?

...depression, but no,' says Professor Anna Wirz-Justice, from the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has been treating patients with the therapy for 40 years. 'But it...

ScienceDaily

Unusual prey: Spiders eating snakes

...expand their menu by catching and eating small snakes. Dr. Martin Nyffeler, arachnologist at the University of Basel, and American herpetologist Professor Whitfield Gibbons of the University of Georgia, USA,...

syfy.com

Spiders that eat snakes up to hundreds of times their size are the real-life Spider-Man vs. the Lizard

...the eight-legged predators from catching one when they can, as biologist Martin Nyffeler of the University of Basel in Switzerland found out. “The use of vertebrates as a supplementary food source by spiders...

Daily Mail

Fang you very much! Widow spiders are eating snakes all over the planet, shocking study says

...scientific research, news reports and even social media, Martin Nyffeler, a spider expert at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and University of Georgia herpetologist J. Whitfield Gibbons found more...

Treehugger

When Spiders Hunt Snakes for Dinner

...Arachnology. Study co-author Martin Nyffeller is a spider expert and conservation biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He was searching journals for information on spider prey data with a focus...

Men's Journal

Is Coffee Shrinking Your Brain? Here’s Where to Cut Yourself Off

...alertness, so it sounds paradoxical that coffee could also…shrink your brain? Scientists at the University of Basel took stock of the gray matter in people’s brains after 10 days of daily caffeine consumption...

swissinfo (engl.)

Swiss culture sector far from a haven of equality

...on Wednesday by Pro Helvetia. The study was carried out by the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Basel, after being commissioned by Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Centre for Social Research. The...

The Tribune

Butterflies at risk from excess nitrogen: Study

...soil via the air and impacts vegetation- to the detriment of the butterflies, as researchers at the University of Basel have discovered. In the journal Conservation Biology, the research team reports a connection...

Physicsworld.com

Solving the proton puzzle

...knowledgeable researchers” to extract a value from the scattering data. These were Ingo Sick from the University of Basel in Switzerland teaming up with John Arrington of the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois,...

Russia Today

Swiss scientists discover two new cell types in mouse brains, giving insight on brain repair mechanisms

...abilities, potentially applicable to humans too. The findings of the study, led by researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland, were published in the Science journal earlier this month. The two cells...

techexplorist.com

Immune cell activation: Scientists deciphered the details of it

...the respiratory complications of COVID-19. Stephan Grzesiek, a professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, said, “Research on CCR5 began almost 25 years ago as part of the fight against AIDS. It...

Daily Mail

Mysterious 3,200-year-old stone carvings in Turkey finally revealed as ancient Hittite calendar and map of the cosmos

...Zangger says. Zangger, president of the Luwian Studies Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland, worked with University of Basel archaeologist Rita Gautschy to analyze the layout and composition of the figures. They...

Nasdaq

Swiss National Bank must increase payouts - economists say

...portfolio...but the SNB is accumulating provisions which it doesn't use," said Yvan Lengwiler of the University of Basel, a former economic advisor to the SNB. "There should be a mechanism for all the profits...

ScienceDaily

New glial cells discovered in the brain: Implications for brain repair

...However, a key role for glia, long considered support cells, is emerging. A research group at the University of Basel has now discovered two new types of glial cells in the brain, by unleashing adult stem...

medicalxpress.com

Two new types of glial cells found in mouse brain

...Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers with members from the University of Basel, Columbia University, New York University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, has...

The Scientist

Scientists Discover “Gorditas” and Other Novel Brain Cell Types

...surface of the ventricle wall, nestled among cilia (red). ANA DELGADO AND FIONA DOETSCH, BIOZENTRUM, UNIVERSITY OF BASEL Scientists have discovered two types of glial cells in the brains of adult mice—an astrocyte...

Forbes Magazine

Restoring Vision To The Blind. Regenerative Medicine Offers New Hope For Retinitis Pigmentosa

...readings. The results were described as "remarkable." “I think that a new field is being born,” University of Basel professor and researcher Botond Roska told reporters during a recent conference call announcing...

nature

Spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020

...These authors contributed equally: Tanja Stadler, Richard A. Neher Affiliations Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Emma B. Hodcroft, Moira Zuber & Richard A. Neher Swiss Institute...

Inside Higher Education

New Definition of Scientific Misconduct

...or PubPeer -- had become a part of scientific life, said Constable, a chemistry professor at the University of Basel. The new code “significantly” expanded the definition of misconduct “by including questionable...

The Lancet

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion and hypothalamic hypocortisolism in neuromyelitis optica

...Departments of Medicine, Clinical Research and Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Switzerland Search for articles by this author Silke Schäfer, MD Silke Schäfer ...

Technology Networks

Understanding How Cancer Spreads

...explains Prof. Dr. Mohamed Bentires-Alj, research group leader at the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel. Understanding the mechanisms behind the dormant state...

thelocal.ch

How did Switzerland get so wealthy?

...“A lot of business books refer to Switzerland as ‘wonderland’. And that’s the core of it”, said Ueli Mäder, a sociology professor at the University of Basel in an interview with The Local....

International Business Times Australien

Scientists Partially Restore Vision Of Blind Man With Gene Therapy

...served as the patient's rods and cones, according to Botond Roska, a biomedical researcher at the University of Basel and author of the new study. Without the goggles, the patient is completely blind. After...

archyworldys.com

Basel area pays less to Uni Basel

The University of Basel will receive around 1.355 billion Swiss francs as a global amount from the two sponsoring cantons of Basel-Stadt and Baselland for the years 2022 to 2025. With the new university...

New York Post

Blind man’s vision partially restored after algae gene therapy: study

...therapy to partially restore vision is possible,” said Botond Roska, professor and researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland, in an international press release. Their case study involved an unnamed...

swissinfo (engl.)

Gene therapy trial partially restores eyesight

...the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), which is affiliated with the University of Basel. Cells in the man’s retina were programmed to produce a protein called ChrimsonR, which...

Boston Globe

Scientists partially restored a blind man’s sight with new gene therapy

...recognize objects. “The brain has to learn a new language,” said Botond Roska, an ophthalmologist at the University of Basel and a co-author of the new study. It will take many more positive results from clinical...

msn.co.nz

Algae proteins partially restore man's sight

...difference between no vision and even limited vision can be life-changing. Prof Botond Roska, from the University of Basel, said: "The findings provide proof-of-concept that using optogenetic therapy to partially...

The Wall Street Journal

Gene Therapy, High-Tech Goggles Restore Some Vision to Blind People

...eyesight—they can’t read, drive or recognize faces. “It is not normal vision,” said Dr. Botond Roska of the University of Basel and the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, an expert in the study...

headtopics.com (UK)

Neuroscience, Blindness And Visual İmpairment Blind man has sight partly restored after pioneering treatment

...[being] born here, namely visual rehabilitation,” said the study co-leader Prof Botond Roska at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “What these ganglion cells are telling the brain is not the normal activity...

WELT

Blinder Mann kann dank Gentherapie wieder sehen

...um José-Alain Sahel von der University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine und Botond Roska von der Universität Basel im Fachblatt „Nature Medicine“ schreibt. Experten bewerten die Studie einhellig als Durchbruch....

ScienceDaily

Swiss farmers contributed to the domestication of the opium poppy

...underground garage now stands. Through a new analysis of archaeological seeds, researchers at the University of Basel have been able to bolster the hypothesis that prehistoric farmers throughout the Alps participated...

The Irish Times

Life expectancy and alcohol

...grey matter was researched by a team led by Dr Carolin Reichert and Prof Christian Cajochen of the University of Basel. Their study was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the findings were...

archyworldys.com

Anti-Israel demos: historian warns against simplifications

...looks at the current development with concern. The Historian at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Basel, criticized the calls for demos that circulated on the Internet last week. As he emphasizes,...

New York Jewish Press

Ukraine PM Honors Ukrainians Who Saved Jews during the Holocaust

...Unum, Chief Strategist and Head of the Academic Council at BYHMC) and Manuel Herz (Professor at the University of Basel, designer of the symbolic synagogue at Babyn Yar). The symbolic synagogue, which was opened...

MarketWatch

Ethereum price surges above $4,000. Just what is this cryptocurrency?

...infrastructure,” wrote Fabian Schär, a professor for distributed ledger technologies and fintech at the University of Basel and the managing director of the Center for Innovative Finance. “It is little wonder why...

menafn.com

Survey highlights staff shortages in Swiss nursing homes

...Fewer than half of the 4,400 respondents said their care units were fully staffed, according to a research projectExternal link published by the University of Basel on Wednesday. This compares with 58% in a 2013 poll....

azocleantech.com

Lakes Could be ‘Tapped’ for an Environmentally Friendly Biofuel

...environmentally gentle fuel could emerge from an unlikely source. A team of environmental scientists from the University of Basel, Switzerland, suggest that methane stored in lakes could be tapped, converted to methanol,...

healthcare-in-europe.com (en.)

Reversing blindness: Award for cone optogenetics gene therapy

...and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, and Head of the University Hospital’s Eye Clinic in Basel, Switzerland. “We are delighted...

LifeScientist

Novel antibiotic tricks bacteria through mimicry

...by exploiting a tiny weak spot on their surface. An international team of researchers, led by the University of Basel, has now revealed the amazing mechanism at play here and thereby opened the door to developing...

The New York Times

German Intelligence Puts Coronavirus Deniers Under Surveillance

Mr. Nachtwey said he understood the federal authorities’ rationale in keeping tabs on the movement, but he wondered if putting it under surveillance would not worsen matters. “The decision might lead to hardening of the position or even further radicalization.”

dw.com (en.)

Vaccines appear effective against India COVID variant

...the head of a research group into the evolution of viruses and bacteria at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. Neher said less was known about some variants with notable mutations. "In that respect,...

Science Times

Study Seeks to Track Changes in Microbial Diversity, Indicates Difficulties

...this decline, and in which direction? According to a paper written by Dr. David S. Thaler of the University of Basel in Switzerland, "Is Global Microbial Biodiversity Increasing, Decreasing, or Staying the...

Guardian

Microbes are ‘unknown unknowns’ despite being vital to all life, says study

...microbial diversity is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same,” said David Thaler, a biologist at Basel University and author of the paper. “Most scientific papers tell us new facts. This is a different...

ScienceDaily

Alpine plants are losing their white 'protective coat' too early in spring

...meters could disappear a month earlier than today, as simulations by environmental scientists at the University of Basel demonstrate. advertisement Global warming demands huge adjustments in tourism, hydropower...

coindesk.com

DeFi Is Transparent, Unless You Look Closely

...the risks. Fabian Schär is a professor for distributed ledger technologies and fintech at the University of Basel and the managing director of the Center for Innovative Finance at the Faculty of Business...

world-today-news.com

Coronavirus pandemic – One in ten people believe in a conspiracy theory

...according to a survey of researchers from Basel. Sarah Kuhn and Thea Zander-Schellenberg’s team at the University of Basel conducted an anonymized online survey of 1,600 people in German-speaking Switzerland and...

swissinfo (engl.)

Study points to lake methane as energy source of the future

...naturally in lakes. This “would in theory be enough to cover the entire world’s energy needs”, said University of Basel scientist Maciej Bartosiewicz. Bartosiewicz, along with Przemyslaw Rzepka and Moritz Lehmann,...

dw.com (bg.)

Meet Germany's 'Querdenker' COVID protest movement

...assessment fits in with the results of a study published in December 2020 by sociologists at the University of Basel, Oliver Nachtwey. He and his team asked more than 1,100 "Querdenker" about their motives...

chemeurope.com

Carbon-neutral “biofuel” from lakes

Lakes store huge amounts of methane. In a new study, environmental scientists at the University of Basel offer suggestions for how it can be extracted and used as an energy source in the form of methanol....

phys.org

Carbon-neutral biofuel from lakes: Suggestions for extraction of methane for energy

by Lakes store huge amounts of methane. In a new study, environmental scientists at the University of Basel offer suggestions for how it can be extracted and used as an energy source in the form of methanol....

Mental Floss

At Wine Tastings, the Cheap Stuff Tastes Better If You Think It's Expensive

...it tastes. In a study published in the journal Food Quality and Preference, researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland set out to examine how price affects the subjective impression of a wine’s...

Consumer Affairs

Varying your physical activities can lead to better mental health outcomes, study finds

...importance of following an exercise regimen during COVID-19-related lockdowns. Now, researchers from the University of Basel have found that physical activity is crucial for mental health; however, they say incorporating...

McKnights Long Term Care News

‘Pain champions’ in nursing homes spur adoption of pain guidelines: study

...in care workers’ self‐efficacy at both time points, reported Franziska Zúñiga Ph.D., RN, of the University of Basel in Switzerland. This result also may have accounted for the workers’ better performance...

Associated Press

Swiss banker to Venezuelan kleptocrats becomes star witness

...Venezuela, all sorts of alarm bells should’ve gone off,” said Pieth, who recently retired from the University of Basel law school. Pieth said he is surprised more Swiss financial institutions and their senior...

Daily Mail

Why your workout regime should be based on your blood pressure

...based on the individual blood pressure level'. Lead author Professor Henner Hanssen of Switzerland's Basel University said: 'In people with hypertension, the blood pressure reduction that can be achieved with...

Monthly Prescribing Reference

Immediate Start of ART for HIV May Impact 10-Year Risk for Cancer

...published online March 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Frédérique Chammartin, PhD, from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues estimated the long-term risk difference for cancer with...

Clinical Neurology News

Many nonpharmacological options to treat pediatric migraine

...senior study author Cosima Locher of the division of clinical psychology and psychotherapy at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, said by email. Short term, biofeedback was the second most effective...

ScienceDaily

New class of substances for redox reactions

...the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba (Japan) and Professor Thomas Jung from the University of Basel and the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland) have now shown experimentally for the first...

dnyuz.com

China gets German children’s book about COVID withdrawn

...good stories about China,” says Ralph Weber, associate professor for European Global Studies at the University of Basel and an expert of Chinese relations. German children’s book links virus to China And...

cointelegraph.com

The superheated NFTs? A crypto market niche tipped to boom or bust

...an exciting innovation,” Fabian Schär, professor in the business and economics department at the University of Basel, told Cointelegraph, “but that does not mean that every doodle suddenly is valuable just...

Nasdaq

Will Stellar Lumens Finally Democratize Investing?

...interoperable protocol stack built on public smart contract platforms, such as the Ethereum blockchain,” University of Basel finance professor Fabian Schär wrote in a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of...

foodandwine.com

Friends Will Enjoy Your Cheap Wine More If You Lie About the Price, Study Suggests

...hopefully offering more lifelike insights than previous lab studies. During this tasting, held at the University of Basel in Switzerland, 140 blind tasters were given three Italian wines billed as either "low-,...

Science.org

Europe moves to exclude neighbors from its quantum and space research

...available silicon. The project includes U.K. and Swiss researchers at University College London and the University of Basel. “They are in there for a good reason,” Vandersypen says. “They bring in really valuable...

The Martha Stewart Show

Consumers Think Inexpensive Wine Tastes Better When Told It's More Expensive, a New Study Says

...how we perceive the quality of a certain wine. According to a new study conducted by researchers at Basel University in Switzerland, consumers were more likely to favor a cheap red wine if they were lied...

swissinfo (engl.)

Veiled in history: how women have been covered up

...exhibition in Vienna, Susanna Burghartz, professor of Renaissance and Early Modern History at the University of Basel, had already approached the subject through a cultural-historical perspective, resulting...

medicalxpress.com

How a receptor shapes the immune response

by University of Basel Researchers led by Professor Carolyn King of the University of Basel have developed a method to study the specialization of T cells in the context of infections. In the journal...

swissinfo (engl.)

Switzerland still popular with overseas students despite Covid

...There were 164 students from 57 other countries as well. At other Swiss universities, like the University of Basel, there’s been a small drop in overseas students at Bachelors. “For overseas undergraduate...

Berner Zeitung

Der Mann hinter dem Burkaverbot – Er hat mehr Volksinitiativen gewonnen als die SP

...Strafrechtsbestimmung auf Bundesebene umzusetzen, sagt Markus Schefer, Staatsrechtsprofessor an der Universität Basel. Allerdings sollte der Bund mit dem Strafrecht nicht leichtfertig die föderalistische Kompetenzordnung...

bloombergquint.com

SNB Breathes Again as Franc Drop Rebuts Criticism on Two Fronts

...a former Irish central bank official, who is now at EFG International AG, Yvan Lengwiler of the University of Basel, and Charles Wyplosz of Geneva’s Graduate Institute to call for the SNB to revise their...

ScienceDaily

Tackling tumors with two types of virus

An international research group led by the University of Basel has developed a promising strategy for therapeutic cancer vaccines. Using two different viruses as vehicles, they administered specific tumor...

pharmaboardroom.com

ISREC’s Susan Gasser: A “Hard-Nosed” Approach to Research Quality & Excellence Save

...studies in Biophysics at the University of Chicago and completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Basel. As a globally renowned biologist and epigeneticist, her research focuses on the spatial...

bionity.com (eng.)

Tackling tumors with two types of virus

...the tumor efficiently (symbolic image). Zoom in An international research group led by the University of Basel has developed a promising strategy for therapeutic cancer vaccines. Using two different...

medicalxpress.com

Tackling tumors with two types of virus

by University of Basel Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An international research group led by the University of Basel has developed a promising strategy for therapeutic cancer vaccines. Using two...

pharmaboardroom.com

Funding the Cell & Gene Therapy Boom Save

...Chairman of the insurer, Helsana and director of the European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine at the University of Basel. He does wonder, however, whether such a provision model would still prove sustainable...

Materials Today

Antiferromagnetic materials enter a new domain

...structuring the surface, forming the basis for a new data storage concept. Image: Department of Physics, University of Basel. Using nanoscale quantum sensors, an international research team has succeeded in exploring...

Materials Today

Kagome graphene reveals exciting properties

...semiconductor and may also have unusual electrical properties. Image: R. Pawlak, Department of Physics, University of Basel. Researchers around the world are searching for new synthetic materials with special...

ScienceDaily

Concept for a new storage medium

Date: February 22, 2021 Source: Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel Summary: Physicists have proposed an innovative new data storage medium. The technique is based on specific properties of...

swissinfo (engl.)

How the US could influence Swiss policy in the Middle East

...to a negotiated outcome was also sidelined, said Goetschel, who teaches political science at the University of Basel. Trump’s first year in office coincided with the arrival of Cassis at the helm of the...

Daily Mail

Drinking coffee can change the structure of your BRAIN: Regular caffeine consumption reduces the volume of grey matter - but 10 days without lattes reverses the effect

University of Basel researchers investigated caffeine's impact on grey matter Grey matter volume was reduced after 10 days of 450 mg daily caffeine intake Caffeine is the world’s most widely consumed...

chemeurope.com

Kagome graphene promises exciting properties

R. Pawlak, Department of Physics, University of Basel Kagome graphene is characterized by a regular lattice of hexagons and triangles. It behaves as a semiconductor and may also have unusual electrical...

bloombergquint.com

Swiss Central Bank Urged to Lift Inflation Goal, Manage Currency

...former deputy governor of the Irish central bank now at EFG International AG, Yvan Lengwiler of the University of Basel and Charles Wyplosz, honorary professor at Geneva’s Graduate Institute addressed the issue...

swissinfo (engl.)

Swiss Central Bank Urged to Lift Inflation Goal, Manage Currency

...former deputy governor of the Irish central bank now at EFG International AG, Yvan Lengwiler of the University of Basel and Charles Wyplosz, honorary professor at Geneva’s Graduate Institute addressed the issue...

swissinfo (engl.)

How Covid-19 hits youngsters hard in Switzerland

...anxious about their futures, appear to have been especially affected by stress during this period A University of Basel studyExternal link looking into psychological stress among the Swiss population during...

ScienceDaily

Kagome graphene promises exciting properties

Date: February 16, 2021 Source: Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel Summary: For the first time, physicists have produced a graphene compound consisting of carbon atoms and a small number of...

phys.org

Kagome graphene promises exciting properties

by Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel Kagome graphene is characterized by a regular lattice of hexagons and triangles. It behaves as a semiconductor and may also have unusual electrical...

swissinfo (engl.)

Digitising clinical data: an uphill road for Switzerland

...in a structured way,” the professor says. Torsten Schwede is vice president for research at the University of Basel and head of a research group at the SIB Swiss Bioinformatics Institute. He explains that...

ScienceDaily

Virtual reality helping to treat fear of heights

Date: February 10, 2021 Source: University of Basel Summary: Researchers have developed a virtual reality app for smartphones to reduce fear of heights. Now, they have conducted a clinical trial to study...

Daily Mail

Is this the solution to over-crowding in tourist hotspots?

Tourist attractions should be digitally recreated says a University of Basel expert Holograms and augmented reality (AR) could make them better than the original Copies of Oxford, Cambridge and Stratford-upon-Avon...

neurosciencenews.com

Virtual Reality Helping to Treat Fear of Heights

...fear of heights report a significant reduction of their fears in real-life situations. Source: University of Basel Researchers from the University of Basel have developed a virtual reality app for smartphones...

cryptonews.com

Fed-Published DeFi Study By a European Professor Boosts Industry Morale

...Director of the Center for Innovative Finance at the Faculty of Business and Economics of Switzerland’s University of Basel. “DeFi still is a niche market with relatively low volumes — however, these numbers are...

The New York Times

How to Recognize and Address Seasonal Depression

...outside. According to Anna Wirz-Justice, professor emeritus in the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, natural light isn’t only cheaper than a light box, it’s also brighter....

The New Stack

Quantum ‘Switchable’ Qubit Quickly Flips Between Storage and Fast Calculation Modes

...quantum devices will have to be extended beyond what they currently are now. Researchers from the University of Basel and TU Eindhoven have now added yet another piece to the developing quantum puzzle: a new...

opli.net

Physicists develop record-breaking source for single photons

28 January 2021 Researchers at the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have developed a source of single photons that can produce billions of these quantum particles per second. With its record-breaking...

swissinfo (engl.)

Switzerland's irresponsible reign on the sea

...published on January 27, 2021 - 12:00 January 27, 2021 - 12:00 Mark Pieth, Criminal Law Professor, University of Basel Though Switzerland is a landlocked country, it is the seat of some of the most prominent...

ScienceDaily

Climate change in antiquity: Mass emigration due to water scarcity

Date: January 25, 2021 Source: University of Basel Summary: The absence of monsoon rains at the source of the Nile was the cause of migrations and the demise of entire settlements in the late Roman province...

enn.com

Climate Change in Antiquity: Mass Emigration Due to Water Scarcity

...with environmental data for the first time by professor of ancient history, Sabine Huebner of the University of Basel – leading to a discovery of climate change and its consequences. The oasis-like Faiyum...

BBC

Why winter seems filled with romance

...bright sunlight. Though Christine Blume and her co-authors from the Centre of Chronobiology at the University of Basel point out that using artifical lights with cool wavelengths of light in the morning and...

SELF

Coronavirus Variants: How Much Do You Need to Worry?

...variants? For some insight, SELF checked in with Emma Hodcroft, Ph.D., a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and Joseph Osmundson, Ph.D., a clinical assistant professor of biology...

SWR2

Coronavirus-Mutationen – Was man bisher darüber weiß

...vergangenen Jahr mehrfach auf, verschwand dann aber wieder. Experten wie Richard Neher von der Universität Basel gehen davon aus, dass es erst die Kombination verschiedener Mutationen ist, die dem Virus...

swissinfo (engl.)

How vaccine technology, choice and supply work in Switzerland

..."I would say at this moment that every vaccine with relatively good efficacy - that means, at least 60 or 70% - should be put to use, when it has an appropriate safety profile,” said Thomas Klimkait, a University of Basel professor and researcher....

swissinfo (engl.)

Swiss multinationals draw blurry political lines in the sand

...A study by University of Basel professor Ralph Weber, further analysed by the business paper Handelszeitung, found that there are communist party cells External linkwith hundreds of members inside Chinese subsidiaries of Swiss companies. This puts Swiss companies ...

CTV

'Quarantine myopia': Study examines near-sightedness among children

...Klaver is a professor at the University of Basel as well as an ophthalmologist and researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, who penned an article in JAMA Ophthalmology to accompany the research....

ScienceDaily

Immune cells discovered in the lungs improve virus defense

A research team at the University of Basel has discovered immune cells resident in the lungs that persist long after a bout of flu. Experiments with mice have shown that these helper cells improve the immune...

ScienceDaily

Electrically switchable qubit can tune between storage and fast calculation modes

...The concept would also allow a large number of qubits to be combined into a powerful quantum computer, as researchers from the University of Basel and TU Eindhoven have reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology....

medicalxpress.com

Immune cells discovered in the lungs improve virus defense

...A research team at the University of Basel has discovered immune cells resident in the lungs that persist long after a bout of flu. Experiments with mice have shown that these helper cells improve the immune response to reinfection by a different strain of the flu...

bionity.com (eng.)

Neuronal circuits for fine motor skills: How the brain masters exquisite movements

...How the brain masters such exquisite movements has now been described in the journal “Nature” by a team of researchers at the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research. A map of brainstem circuits reveals which neurons contro...

ScienceDaily

How to mitigate the impact of a lockdown on mental health

...what helps and hinders people in getting through a lockdown? A new study led by researchers at the University of Basel addressed this question using data from 78 countries across the world. The results hint...

ScienceDaily

Neuronal circuits for fine motor skills

...exquisite movements has now been described in the journal "Nature" by a team of researchers at the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research. A map of brainstem circuits...

The Hindu

Can spiders weave webs without gravity?

...But when the lights went on they probably thought: ‘ah, there's the light. Well, this must be up. So act accordingly,’” explains lead author Samuel Zschokke From the University of Basel, Switzerland....

Reuters (IN)

Explainer: How does AstraZeneca's vaccine compare with Pfizer-BioNTech?

...don’t have vaccine in sufficient quantities to reach all those who need it,” said Thomas Klimkait, a University of Basel professor and researcher who is working on a Swiss SARS-CoV-2 vaccine project. “I would...

nzz.ch

«I am never not thinking about the pandemic,» says Emma Hodcroft. She tracks coronavirus mutations

...University of Edinburgh. In 2017 she joined the group of Richard Neher at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel where she helped develop Nextstrain, an open-source project tracking pathogen evolution....

Psychology Today

Is your spouse this selfish?

...In a recent study in Nature Scientific Reports from Andrew Gloster’s lab at the University of Basel, researchers investigated when people in committed relationships act in selfish or selfless ways. As it turns out, a small intervention of mere 15 minutes could lea...

varindia.com

Scientists warn of new variant Coronavirus coming soon

...said Emma Hodcroft, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Basel and lead author of the study which is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal....

marie claire (GB)

Single with benefits: the self-fulfilling power of not dating

...who work out for around four hours. Single people tend to have lower BMIs, too – research from the University of Basel in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany found that...

swissinfo (engl.)

China has too much influence over Switzerland, finds study

...Research from Basel University suggests that on various levels, the Chinese party-state has too much influence over Switzerland....

Forbes Magazine

The Science Behind London’s Christmas Lockdown

...occasions, including in South Africa, as explained by evolutionary virologist Emma Hodcroft from the University of Basel. ADVERTISEMENT The new lineage, including all 17 major mutations, has grown very rapidly...

Sound Health and Lasting Wealth

New Covid strain has 17 mutations, scientist say

...into other parts of the country.’ A history of the virus published online by the Neher Lab, at the University of Basel in Switzerland, shows how it has become more common over time. After the first official...

digitaljournal.com

Building photodetectors based on spider web spinning

...gravitational forces, however the role of photodetection should not be underestimated. In essence, University of Basel scientists state, the research showed how spiders use light as an additional orientation...

Daily Mail

Mutated form of Covid has been found in Wales, Scotland, Denmark and Australia

...A history of the virus published online by the Neher Lab, at the University of Basel in Switzerland, shows how it has become more common over time....

Daily Mail

International Spider Station? Arachnids in orbit work out how to weave webs in microgravity using LIGHT as a reference point

...'We wouldn't have guessed that light would play a role in orienting the spiders in space,' said paper author and biologist Samuel Zschokke, of the University of Basel....

Daily Express

Spiders in space use light to tell them which way is 'up' in ISS zero gravity study

...Dr Samuel Zschokke, a University of Basel conservation biologist said: ”Since in normal gravity, and no matter whether the lights were on or not, spiders consistently built asymmetric webs and consistently faced downwards when sitting on the hub, we conclude that ...

Futurism

Whose Brilliant Idea Was It to Bring Spiders to the Space Station?

...back-up system for orientation like this seems surprising,” study coauthor Samuel Zschokke from the University of Basel said in a press release, “since they have never been exposed to an environment without...

gizmodo.co.uk

Space Station Spiders Found a Hack to Build Webs Without Gravity

...study, led by Paula Cushing of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Samuel Zschokke from the University of Basel. G/O Media may get a commission Use the promo code Kinja2020 The chosen species for...

phys.org

Spiders in space: Without gravity, light becomes key to orientation

by University of Basel A specimen of the spider species Trichonephila clavipes on board the international space station (ISS). Credit: BioServe Space Technologies, University of Colorado Boulder Humans...

Medscape

Nighttime Airplane Noise Linked to Cardiovascular Death

..."The take-home messages of these findings are that adaptations and mitigations of nighttime noise are warranted," senior author Martin Röösli, PhD, professor of environmental epidemiology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Swi...

phys.org

Quick and sensitive identification of multidrug-resistant germs

by University of Basel Schematic illustration of the cantilever array to detect antibiotic resistance. Credit: Department of Physics and Nano Imaging Lab, SNI, University of Basel Researchers from...

bizcommunity.com

Social norms and poor services drive petty corruption in East Africa's health sector

...https://theconversation.com/africa About the author Saba Kassa, public governance specialist, Basel Institute, University of Basel; Claudia Baez Camargo, head of public governance, Basel Institute, University of Basel...

neurosciencenews.com

Molecular Mechanism of Long-Term Memory Discovered

...By studying roundworms (Caenorhabditis elegans), scientists at the Transfaculty Research Platform for Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences (MCN) at the University of Basel have now discovered a molecular mechanism of long-term memory that is also involved in memo...

scienmag.com

EMBO welcomes thirty Young Investigators

...Gothenburg Gothenburg, SE Camilo Perez Molecular mechanism of cell wall membrane proteins Biozentrum, University of Basel Basel, CH Christoph Zechner Signal processing and heterogeneity in biological systems...

Daily Mail

How Europe's Covid second wave started with Spanish migrant workers

...The new research - which has yet to be peer-reviewed - was carried out by scientists from the University of Basel, in Switzerland, and the University of Valencia....

startupticker.ch

Bottmedical obtains CE certificate for its NaturAligner

...medical device for dental alignment, and the flagship product of Bottmedical, a spin-off from the University of Basel. The device is now CE-certified which paves the way for the next steps starting with clinical...

drugs.com

Gut Immune Cells May Play Key Role in MS

...Study first author Dr. Anne-Katrin Probstel, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, said, "This opens up a whole new line of research. I think it has huge potential for therapeutics."...

ScienceDaily

Cichlid fishes from African Lake Tanganyika shed light on how organismal diversity arises

...cichlid fishes have evolved in this lake in less than 10 million years. A research team from the University of Basel has investigated this phenomenon of "explosive speciation" and provides new insights into...

phys.org

Novel quantum dots facilitate coupling to quantum memory systems

...Researchers at the University of Basel and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have realized quantum dots—tiny semiconductor nanostructures—that emit light close to the red part of the spectrum with ultra-low background noise. Quantum dots might one day constitute the basis f...

ScienceDaily

Yin and Yang: Two signaling molecules control growth and behavior in bacteria

...metabolic control they decide on the lifestyle of bacteria, as reported by researchers from the University of Basel. The new findings also play a role in the context of bacterial infections. advertisement...

Markets Insider

Swiss Rockets AG announces the founding of ROCKETVAX for the development of a next-generation SARS-CoV-2 vaccine

...Vladimir Cmiljanovic, Chairman and CEO of Swiss Rockets. Prof. Dr. Thomas Klimkait, Virologist at the University of Basel and Project Leader of Preclinical Development at RocketVax, explains: "As an innovative...

Reuters (USA)

Highlights: Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine news delivers hope around the globe

...MARCEL TANNER, PRESIDENT SWISS ACADEMIES OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, MEMBER OF THE SWISS NATIONAL COVID-19 SCIENCE TASK FORCE, PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MEDICAL PARASITOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BASEL...

phys.org

Yin and Yang: Two signaling molecules control growth and behavior in bacteria

...Two competing signaling molecules control Caulobacter lifestyle. Pink: Swarmer cell with high ppGpp level; blue: sessile form with high c-di-GMP level. Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum...

The New York Times

Covid Infections in Animals Prompt Scientific Concern

...So far, the mink in Denmark are the only known instance of the virus infecting an animal, mutating, and transferring back to humans. Emma Hodcroft of the University of Basel, Switzerland, traces various mutated versions of the...

The Verge

Denmark will cull entire mink population after COVID-19 outbreaks

...“Scientists will update when we have more info,” tweeted virologist Emma Hodcroft, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland....

The New York Times

Denmark Will Kill All Farmed Mink, Citing Coronavirus Infections

...On Twitter, Emma Hodcroft, a geneticist at the University of Basel, Switzerland, who is tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus, urged caution. “Don’t panic,” Dr. Hodcroft tweeted. “Scientists will update when we have more info.”...

MSN Money (PH)

Swiss Try Light Touch Virus Curbs in Effort to Keep Economy Open

...the Swiss to implement stricter measures earlier,” said Emma Hodcroft, an epidemiologist at the University of Basel. “What concerns me is that we’ve seen other countries taking lighter-touch approaches previously...

sky.com

Coronavirus: History repeating itself with second lockdown - but what will be done with it?

...Back in February, the biggest source of cases in the UK was not China but Spain. A study by the University of Basel recently concluded that 80% of the UK cases since the summer were brought by travellers...

telegraph.co.uk

Why Europe's efforts to stop a second wave of Covid were doomed to fail

...came from. That's the simplest explanation.” His theory is backed up by a study this week from the University of Basel, which found that a new genetic strain of coronavirus, first seen in Spanish farm workers,...

headtopics.com (UK)

Coronavirus, Spain Coronavirus strain from Spain accounts for most UK cases – study

...hospitals begin turning away women seeking abortions Dr Emma Hodcroft, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Basel and lead author of the study, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We know there was a...

Russia Today

90% of UK Covid cases came from Spanish strain, study shows

...spread of the disease, and resulting in cases soaring across the continent. Researchers at the University of Basel, at ETH Zürich in Basel, and in the SeqCOVID-Spain consortium analyzed the spread of coronavirus...