The next edition of “Uni-Ein-Blicke” on November 24 will visit the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.
Exercise is healthy – this applies to all of us, especially though for people suffering from type 2 diabetes. Researchers from the University of Basel were able to show that fitness games, or “exergames”, for the Nintendo Wii console are suitable to increase cardiorespiratory fitness in type 2 diabetic patients and thus lower the risk of related heart disease.
Microwave field imaging is becoming increasingly important, as microwaves play an essential role in modern communications technology and can also be used in medical diagnostics. Researchers from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of Physics at the University of Basel have now independently developed two new methods for imaging microwave fields.
The South African Ann Grobler, Director of the Preclinical Drug Development Platform South Africa and professor for Pharmacology at North-West University, is already leading her second joint research program with scientists from Switzerland and South Africa.
Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have developed a new technique using nanobodies. Employing the so-called “Morphotrap”, the distribution of the morphogen Dpp, which plays an important role in wing development, could be selectively manipulated and analyzed for the first time in the fruit fly. The results of the study have been published in the current issue of “Nature”.
This year the European Molecular Biology Organization EMBO has again selected two scientists from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel to become “EMBO Young Investigators”. Prof. Marek Basler and Prof. Clemens Cabernard are two from a total of 23 scientists from around Europe who, as talented scientists, will participate in the “EMBO Young Investigator program”.
Tuberculosis bacteria employ an unusual strategy. They present themselves to the immune system in a constant shape. Their antigenic variation is low what provokes a severe immune response. As a consequence, the bacteria enter the lungs from where they are easily transmitted from humans to humans by coughing.
This edition of “Uni-Ein-Blicke” takes us behind the scenes of the Basel Mission (today Mission 21) and its archives – an important resource for research at the University of Basel. This year, the mission is celebrating its 200-year anniversary. The guided tour is open to all employees and students of the University of Basel and takes place October 27 in German and English.
The international research project ‘imagineTrains’ studies perceptions, ideas, and problems that decision makers and passengers associate with rail as a mode of transport.