UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel

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  Opinion

  Animal-human embryos: monster or marvel?

  Text: David Shaw / Hybrid embryos are created by the addition of human stem cells to animal embryos. What ethical issues are involved?

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  Research

  A cultural history of Switzerland’s dams

  Text: Samuel Schlaefli / Dams are more than just pioneering technical feats. For the valley dwellers who had to move when they were built, they are often associated with life-changing upheavals and the loss of home. The website verschwundene-taeler.ch that has been started up in Basel relates for the first time the cultural history of the construction of Switzerland’s dams.

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  Portrait

  Likes for the lab

  Text: Olivia Poisson / Doing a doctorate can be a lonely business. Not so for Martina Hestericová, a chemist with a passion for making science more accessible on social media.

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  Opinion

  CRISPR/Cas9 – Opportunity or Risk, Rolf Zeller?

  Text: Rolf Zeller / Discovered just a few years ago, the CRISPR/Cas9 method promises new possibilities for editing the genome of living creatures. While some see this as an opportunity, others focus on the risks of this efficient technology.

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  Opinion

  CRISPR/Cas9 – Opportunity or Risk, Priya Satalkar?

  Text: Priya Satalkar / Discovered just a few years ago, the CRISPR/Cas9 method promises new possibilities for editing the genome of living creatures. While some see this as an opportunity, others focus on the risks of this efficient technology.

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  In pictures

  Between the tides

  Text: Thomas Jermann, Christoph Dieffenbacher / Since the middle of the 1980s zoology students have been examinating the same coastal section every year in the northern Brittany.

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  Alumni

  Derya Tokay-Sahin, criminal court judge

  Text: Bettina Huber / This summer, aged just 27, the Basel University alumna Derya Tokay-Sahin overcame fierce competition to be re-elected as a judge on Basel’s criminal court. Doggedness, discipline and determination have been her hallmarks ever since she was a child.

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  Research

  New treatment concepts for recurrent lymphoma

  Text: Yvonne Vahlensieck / Cancer recurrence is not always what it seems, at least not in lymphoma, or cancer of the lymphatic system. A study conducted at the Institute of Pathology of the University of Basel has revealed how the genetic profiles of tumors could, in the future, help identify the appropriate therapy for each patient with lymphoma relapse.

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  Research

  An almost forgotten pioneer

  Text: Martin Hicklin / Healthy aging is an aspiration for many and a hot topic in research. The Basel physiologist Fritz Verzár (1886–1979) is regarded as a trailblazer for modern gerontology. Although largely forgotten today, his ideas are now being taken up once again.