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, thus providing novel therapeutic approaches.
What factors lead to chronic respiratory disease? Researchers investigated this question using health data from about 780 infants. Their analysis shows that children's risk of developing asthma later in life can be more reliably predicted by observing the dynamic development of symptoms during the first year of life.
Until a few years ago, the butterfly known as the southern small white could barely be found north of the Alps. That was before a Europe-wide invasion that brought a huge increase in the insect’s distribution – at the same time as a rapid decrease in genetic diversity within the species.
Many people in Ticino are familiar with the feeling that their form of Italian is inferior to that spoken in the peninsula to the south. A linguistic and comparative analysis of official Swiss Italian has now shown that this is not the case. Translation practices at the federal level play a key role.
Toniebox, Tiptoi, and Tamagotchi are smart toys, offering interactive play through software and internet access. However, several of these toys raise privacy concerns, and some even collect extensive behavioral data about children, report researchers at the University of Basel.
Switzerland and China have maintained economic relations and cultural contacts for centuries, sometimes during critical periods. Historian Ariane Knüsel has co-authored a new publication on the relationship between the two countries.
The cultural significance of radio is the subject of the research project “Radiophonic Cultures”, the second volume of which was recently published. In an interview, media scientist Professor Ute Holl explains the cultural and social forms that radio has produced, and why it remains an essential medium in the digital world.
The shark has survived numerous environmental disasters, but now it may be losing the battle against its most dangerous rival: the human being. A new economic analysis shows the conditions under which high demand can lead not only to the extinction of a single species, but also to a progressive, accelerating mass extinction.
A new study now published in Science reveals that the memory for a specific experience is stored in multiple parallel “copies”. These are preserved for varying durations, modified to certain degrees, and sometimes deleted over time, report researchers at the University of Basel.
