The Swiss Finance Institute is recognized as one of the world’s leading think tanks in the field of financial market research. The University of Basel is now a member of this network, in which Swiss university professors conduct research on banking and finance issues.
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.
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 which are significant for clinical practice.
The animal keepers of the Department of Biomedicine at the Mattenstrasse site have won the Swiss 3RCC Culture of Care Award. They have succeeded in significantly reducing the number of surplus laboratory animals.
For children, the world is full of surprises. Adults, on the other hand, are much more difficult to surprise. And there are complex processes behind this apparently straightforward state of affairs. Researchers at the University of Basel have been using mice to decode how reactions to the unexpected develop in the growing brain.
Artificial intelligence (AI) can reliably detect emotions based on facial expressions in psychotherapeutic situations. The AI system is also able to reliably predict therapeutic success in patients with borderline personality pathology.
Light in the evening is thought to be bad for sleep. However, does the color of the light play a role? Researchers from the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) compared the influence of different light colors on the human body. The researchers’ findings contradict the results of a previous study in mice.
The University Council has elected Kirsten Mertz as Professor of General Pathology and Felix Mahfoud as Professor of Cardiology.
Antibiotics have no effect on viruses, and that includes the coronavirus. Yet in the first year of the pandemic, primary care physicians in Switzerland prescribed antibacterial medications twice as frequently as before, report researchers at the University of Basel. A risky practice, warns the research team.
