Sweat in the gym or watch a TV series instead? Some people win the battle against their "inner couch potato" more easily than others. Exercise scientist Markus Gerber explains what the brain has to do with it and what role genes play in this process.
The University Council has appointed Tobias Derfuss and Jens Kuhle as Professors of Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis in the Faculty of Medicine. The professorship will be divided between the two doctors. Four professors have also been promoted.
Various research groups at the University of Basel have optimized their electricity consumption with the Electricity Saving Challenge. Simple measures have made it possible to significantly reduce electricity consumption – without any limitations on the science.
US President Trump has imposed high tariffs on a number of countries and announced that more are to follow. In this interview, legal expert Dr. Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer explains how international trade law might respond.
Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study published in the journal “Nature”, researchers from the University of Basel challenge the conventional view that a small subset of particularly resilient bacteria are responsible for the failure of antibiotic therapies.
Women are less likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit after a cardiac arrest, receive less intensive care treatment and have a higher risk of dying than men. These are the findings of a new Swiss-wide study by researchers from the University Hospital Basel and the University of Basel.
Consumers in Switzerland are prepared to spend much more money on cow’s milk products if they have been produced in an animal-friendly way, and this factor is even more important to them than climate sustainability, as shown by a new study by the University of Basel.
Researchers at the University of Basel are able to test the effects of more than 1,500 compounds on cell metabolism in parallel. Their analysis also led to the discovery of previously unknown mechanisms for known drugs. This approach could help scientists better predict side effects and find additional uses for commercially available medications.
Researchers at the University of Basel have shown that quantum systems can have antagonistic interactions, too – one agent attracts the other, but the other way around, there is a repulsion. Such interactions could be realized using cold atoms that are coupled to each other.
