Meltwater News
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09 Jun 2023
bionity.com (eng.)
Mechanisms behind aggressive cancer metastases uncovered
...offer ideas for new treatments. Bentires-Alj’s research team at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, elucidated one of these cascades. It begins with a metabolic...
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05 Jun 2023
drugs.com
Early Treatment Can Be Initiated for A-Fib Patients With Stroke
...European Stroke Organization Conference, held from May 24 to 26 in Munich. Urs Fischer, M.D., from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues conducted an open-label trial at 103 sites in 15 countries...
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05 Jun 2023
phys.org
Protein serves as a breaking point for cell membrane rupture during cell death
by Katrin Bühler, University of Basel Ninjurin-1 proteins assemble (green/yellow) into filaments and rupture the cell membrane (gray) until the cell disintegrates completely. Intracellular components...
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31 May 2023
scitechdaily.com
Microsoft's Quantum Breakthrough – Were They Wrong?
...particle that could potentially be utilized for crafting notably durable quantum bits. However, University of Basel's researchers are currently questioning these conclusions regarding the so-called Majorana...
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26 May 2023
phys.org
Skepticism about Microsoft results regarding robust quantum bits
by Oliver Morsch, University of Basel Disorder in very thin nanowires can lead to measurement results that could be misinterpreted as evidence for Majorana particles. Credit: University of Basel, Department...
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24 May 2023
Time Magazine
The Architect of Swiss Neutrality Thinks It's Time for His Country to Take Sides
...Goetschel, the director of the Swiss Peace research institute and a professor of political science at the University of Basel. “The idea that the country would stay aloof from any political collective measures and...
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24 May 2023
phys.org
New production process for therapeutic nanovesicles
by University of Basel The extracellular vesicles (red) produced using the new technique are absorbed in vitro by immune cells (green; nucleus in turquoise) and can therefore influence an organism’s...
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23 May 2023
Psychology Today
It’s No Fun to Be Excluded, So What Can You Do About It?
...for that matter. Either way, it doesn’t feel very good. Ostracism’s Three Causes According to University of Basel’s Selma Rudert and colleagues (2023), although it’s clear from “a plethora of research”...
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23 May 2023
swissinfo (en.)
New Covid-19 vaccine successfully tested in Switzerland
...drops. The vaccine effectively protected them against the disease and prevented virus transmission. University of Basel, Catherine Weyer X Researchers at the University of Basel have successfully tested...
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22 May 2023
medicalxpress.com
New vaccine concept against SARS-CoV-2 successfully tested
by University of Basel Single-cycle vaccine concept and viral characterization. Credit: bioRxiv (2023). DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.17.541127 Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a new approach...
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17 May 2023
The Sun
SUPER SWAP I’m a dermatologist – here are 3 cheap skincare swaps that are as good as expensive products
...traumatize the epidermis." Similarly, Christian Surber, a professor of dermatopharmacology at the University of Basel and the University of Zurich, told The New York Times that they "abuse the skin". Read...
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14 May 2023
neurosciencenews.com
Linking Oxytocin and Vasopressin: A Novel Pathway for Autism Therapy
...approaches for conditions like autism that are suspected to be linked to oxytocin deficits. Source: University of Basel The hormone oxytocin is important for social interaction and to control emotions. A deficiency...
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09 May 2023
swissinfo (en.)
Swiss overestimate survival chances after resuscitation
...any neurological deficits starts to decrease exponentially,” study leader Sabina Hunziker from the University of Basel said in a statementExternal link on Tuesday. If a cardiac arrest occurs outside a hospital,...
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09 May 2023
Forbes Australia
Six expert-approved sleep tips to boost your daily productivity
...who researches light exposure, circadian rhythm and sleep at the Center for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. One component is a “homeostatic process,” which dictates that most adults...
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06 May 2023
finance.yahoo.com
Are Swiss banks still hoarding Nazi gold?
...transferable currency apart from the US greenback. Mark Pieth, a professor of criminal law at the University of Basel, says around 80pc of gold held by the Nazis was transferred to Switzerland during the war...
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04 May 2023
swissinfo (engl.)
The Swiss bitcoin expert with a global reputation
...for banks. Fabian Schär, Professor of Blockchain, Bitcoin and Financial Market Technology at the University of Basel, has a front row seat to view these developments. This content was published on May 4,...
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01 May 2023
The Times of Israel
Roman army may have included kosher-observant Jews 2,000 years ago, study finds
...explained Dr. Haggai Olshanetsky, the author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “There were Jews in the Roman Army, and Jews fighting against the Roman...
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28 Apr 2023
Scientific American
Who Invented the Measurement of Time?
...acted as a primitive sundial—or no device at all, says Rita Gautschy, an archeoastronomer at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “It’s really difficult to get a grip on when people started with timekeeping,”...
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28 Apr 2023
Reuters (USA)
Analysis: Powerful Swiss central bank faces reform calls in wake of Credit Suisse rescue
...small committee meant the central bank was susceptible to group think. Yvan Lengwiler, from the University of Basel, said too many SNB officials spent their entire careers at the central bank, a particular...
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27 Apr 2023
Zero Hedge
One Of The Best Inflation Hedges Is Hiding In Japan
...wind. In Monetary Regimes and Inflation , the author Peter Bernholz, professor of economics at the University of Basel in Switzerland, showed that all of the major high and hyper-inflationary episodes of the...
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21 Apr 2023
texty.org.ua
How to Explain the Real Reason Why Russia is Waging a War on Ukraine to Europeans
...quotations from the opinion article by Botakoz Kassymbekova, Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University of Basel, of Kazakh descent: “Many in Western academia bought into the anti-colonial narrative...
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21 Apr 2023
STUFF
Should this lamp be on every office desk?
...conclusion of a 2011 investigation by Christian Cajochen, the head of the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel, suggests office space designers include the colour blue as much as possible to increase...
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19 Apr 2023
Associated Press
Researchers Discover a New Embryonic Brain Circuit
...granting academic freedom to its scientists. Founding partners are the University Hospital Basel, the University of Basel and Novartis. The Canton of Basel-Stadt has granted the institute substantial financial...
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19 Apr 2023
Biosciencetoday
Is Basel set to become Europe's Silicon Valley of biotech?
...Novo Holdings. Another company supported by BaseLaunch is Cimeio Therapeutics, a spinout from the University of Basel that is developing immunotherapies for patients with serious and life-threatening diseases....
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17 Apr 2023
swissinfo (engl.)
Battered image: Switzerland needs to go back to the drawing board
...17, 2023 April 17, 2023 minutes Opinion by Mark Pieth Mark Pieth, Criminal Law Professor, University of Basel The downfall of Credit Suisse brings back memories of the grounding of national carrier...
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17 Apr 2023
swissinfo (engl.)
Switzerland’s tax haven reputation runs deep even with reforms
...questions from authorities. This is progress, says Kurt Schmidheiny an expert in tax competition at the University of Basel. The deal will reduce “Switzerland's attractiveness for footloose foreign capital and profits...
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13 Apr 2023
chemeurope.com
Luminous Molecules
... A new concept in synthesis Professor Olivier Baudoin, Dr. Shu-Min Guo and Soohee Huh from the University of Basel’s Department of Chemistry have just made an important step forward. In the latest issue...
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11 Apr 2023
Associated Press
Swiss lawmakers pick apart Credit Suisse woes ahead of deal
...from lawmakers who all face reelection this fall. Yvan Lengwiler, an economics professor at the University of Basel, suggested that the debate would play into a longtime “tug-of-war” between lawmakers who...
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11 Apr 2023
MarketWatch
Swiss lawmakers open session looking at UBS-Credit Suisse deal
...from lawmakers who all face reelection this fall. Yvan Lengwiler, an economics professor at the University of Basel, suggested that the debate would play into a longtime “tug-of-war” between lawmakers who...
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10 Apr 2023
Daily Mail
Definition of soft on crime! California police station recruits a pet RABBIT as its ‘wellness officer’ — so cops can pet it when they feel stressed
...In Yuba City, the crime rate rose by 5 percent from 2019 to 2020. Last year, researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland found that cuddling furry friends engages the part of the brain responsible...
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07 Apr 2023
Forbes Magazine
Doomsday Predictions Around ChatGPT Are Counter-Productive
...the importance of self-efficacy in personal development. This is backed up by research from the University of Basel, which found that the most important determining factor of success in both one's education...
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05 Apr 2023
News Concerns
Mummies provide the key to reconstruct the climate of the ancient Mediterranean
...trying to reconstruct the climate of Roman Egypt. Huebner, a Professor of Ancient History at the University of Basel, coordinates the work of historians, archaeologists and climatologists. “Mummy labels are...
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05 Apr 2023
New York Post
The CDC keeps pushing COVID boosters on kids despite real health risks
...common after the vaccine in a cohort of young males, a recent JAMA Cardiology study found. In a University of Basel study, asymptomatic heart damage occurred in 2.8% of people after the COVID booster as...
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02 Apr 2023
CNN.com
Swiss prosecutor probes Credit Suisse takeover
...“It’s astonishing that the prosecutor would comment,” said Mark Pieth, professor emeritus of the University of Basel, where he has taught criminal law and criminology. But the rescue “is so out of the ordinary...
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23 Mar 2023
Newsweek
Scientists Make Quantum Light Breakthrough: 'This Experiment Is Beautiful'
...photon on its own and the ones that were bound. For the first time, scientists from @sydney_uni and @UniBasel_en have demonstrated the ability to manipulate #quantumlight, which could advance #medicalimaging...
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22 Mar 2023
Boston Globe
When the war in Ukraine comes to classrooms in New England
...in Warsaw, a stop in Hamburg. They needed to make it to Switzerland, where her fellowship at the University of Basel, slated to begin last August, was moved earlier to offer her refuge. The trio arrived...
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22 Mar 2023
Guardian
Switzerland’s national pride dealt heavy blow by the merger of its banking titans
...Suisse’s solidity is much better than it is presented,” said George Sheldon, a professor emeritus at Basel university’s faculty of business and economics. “But this has become a question of trust. What we...
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20 Mar 2023
China Daily (Global Edition)
Belt and Road promoting common development
...of certain countries on so-called "debt traps". Helmut Reisen, a professor of economics at the University of Basel and counselor at the OECD Development Centre, wrote: "China has become, by a large margin,...
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19 Mar 2023
inkl.com
Why you should make the most of the extra daylight when the clocks change
...the open sky,” says Dr Christine Blume, a sleep scientist at the Centre for Chronobiology of the University of Basel. “So, our biological clock is especially sensitive to daylight.” This function, sometimes...
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17 Mar 2023
Popular Mechanics
Euler’s Number Is Seriously Everywhere. Here’s What Makes It So Special
...occurs so often. This number first came to light in 1683 when Jacob Bernoulli, an instructor at the University of Basel, was studying compound interest. He wanted to find out what would happen if a bank compounds...
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11 Mar 2023
Foreign Policy
The Road to Democracy in Russia Runs Through Chechnya
By Botakoz Kassymbekova, an assistant professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Nearly three decades ago, when post-Soviet Russia launched its first bloody war on Chechnya, Moscow traded its...
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08 Mar 2023
swissinfo (en.)
Swiss universities are tackling sexual harassment. Are they getting it right?
...demand universities stay true to their commitments to make academia a better place. In 2019, the University of Basel and the federal technology institute ETH Zurich were criticised publicly for their handling...
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07 Mar 2023
Foreign Policy
Is the Ukraine War an Anti-Colonial Struggle?
...Spanish, and Belgian colonialism. As Botakoz Kassymbekova, assistant professor of modern history at the University of Basel, recently wrote for Al Jazeera, the overlooking of Russian colonialism is largely due to...
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02 Mar 2023
nikkei.com
China and Russia test Switzerland's long-standing neutrality
Ralph Weber, another leading Sinologist in Switzerland, sees neutrality becoming more of a burden in the current global environment.
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26 Feb 2023
radionz.co.nz
Daylight essential for our sleep, health and mood
...therapy, sleep deprivation, melatonin. She's Emeritus Professor of Psychiatric Neurobiology at the University of Basel, and is the former head of the Centre for Chronobiology at the Psychiatric University Clinic.
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23 Feb 2023
Forbes Magazine
Our Dreams Can Help Us Build Resilience At Work
...Indeed, research from the University of Basel found that a sense of belief was often the most significant factor in whether a young person could achieve social mobility or not. The researchers found that ...
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22 Feb 2023
medicalxpress.com
When is remdesivir effective for COVID-19?
by University of Basel Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Remdesivir was one of the first medications approved for treatment of COVID-19. Clinical studies evaluated its effectiveness, but did not generate...
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22 Feb 2023
News Medical
Specific group of COVID-19 patients benefits the most from remdesivir, new analysis shows
...patient groups more than others. Analysis of data from over 10,000 patients A research team from the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel led by clinical epidemiologist Professor Matthias...
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15 Feb 2023
NewScientist
Plants are spreading up mountains faster than thought in North America
...time span and geographic range analysed are major strengths of the study, says Sabine Rumpf at the University of Basel in Switzerland. But because the study looks at vegetation cover overall, Basel says the...
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13 Feb 2023
swissinfo (en.)
Basel University gets private Afghan library collection
...Nasir Khosrow Balkhi library in Kabul, Afghanistan (2012) Keystone / S. Sabawoon The University of Basel is taking over the hitherto privately-run Bibliotecha Afghanica, a rich collection of material steeped...
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11 Feb 2023
menafn.com
Magnitsky Affair: Switzerland To Return Suspect Millions To Russia
...party involved”. This approach has been criticised by Mark Pieth, professor of criminal law at the University of Basel, according to whom“this method tends to favour money launderers, who can rely on structures...
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10 Feb 2023
swissinfo (engl.)
Magnitsky Affair: Switzerland to return suspect millions to Russia
...party involved”. This approach has been criticised by Mark Pieth, professor of criminal law at the University of Basel, according to whom “this method tends to favour money launderers, who can rely on structures...
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08 Feb 2023
The New York Times
Germany Has a Problem
Behind this general support is widespread racism and what the sociologist Oliver Nachtwey calls a “society of decline.” The postwar era’s promise of upward mobility has long since disappeared.
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03 Feb 2023
swissinfo (engl.)
Swiss study reviews hospital bed occupancy and mortality risks
The University of Basel study from late 2022 found that mortality rates increased by 2% a day once a certain occupancy threshold had been exceeded. Keystone / Gaetan Bally When bed occupancy rises, so...
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01 Feb 2023
atlanticcouncil.org
Europe’s last empire: Putin’s Ukraine war exposes Russia’s imperial identity
...the current genocidal war. Botakoz Kassymbekova is Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University of Basel. Further reading The views expressed in UkraineAlert are solely those of the authors...
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30 Jan 2023
Presseportal.ch (en)
Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society awards first MS research prize
...studies on new MS medication. In his experimental research at the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel, he examines the role of B lymphocytes and antibodies in MS and other neuroimmune diseases....
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27 Jan 2023
bigthink.com
Daily caffeine intake temporarily alters your brain structure
...changes the structure of your brain? Caffeine on the brain That’s the question Yu-Shiuan Lin of the University of Basel and her colleagues set out to answer, and their hypothesis was that daily caffeine intake...
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25 Jan 2023
BBC
How climate change threatens to close ski resorts
...harnessing huge snowmaking machines which cover the pistes in fresh white powder. A study by the University of Basel in Switzerland warns that resorts situated below 1,800-2,000m (5,900-6,600ft), will increasingly...
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24 Jan 2023
Al Jazeera
How Western scholars overlooked Russian imperialism
...Russian Empire and colonisation. Botakoz Kassymbekova Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University of Basel Published On 24 Jan 202324 Jan 2023 A woman holding a portrait of Stalin places flowers...
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23 Jan 2023
medicalxpress.com
Private patients receive treatment for heart conditions more often than those with basic health insurance, says study
by University of Basel Incidence Rates According to Health Insurance Status Incidence rates shown for main procedures only (A) and any procedures (B) during the study years for patients with basic insurance...
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20 Jan 2023
ScienceDaily
Tracing the flow of water with DNA
...toolbox that's new to our field of research," says Oliver Schilling, Professor of Hydrogeology at the University of Basel and at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. Quantitative...
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17 Jan 2023
The Times of India
Research finds how placebo can reduce feelings of guilt
...cohesion," said Dilan Sezer, researcher at the Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Basel. Whether feelings of guilt can be reduced by taking placebos is something that researchers...
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17 Jan 2023
labiotech.eu
Cell and gene therapies gain momentum in Basel
...solid tumors, stimulating the body’s immune response. The company originated as a spinout from the University of Basel’s Biozentrum and – with the help of BaseLaunch, a biotech accelerator and incubator – successfully...
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15 Jan 2023
The New York Times
Dwindling Snow Leaves Swiss Alpine Villages Staring at an Identity Crisis
...more years with less and less snow,” said Sabine Rumpf, a professor of environmental science at the University of Basel. Her team has conducted satellite research showing that nearly 10 percent of snow cover...
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13 Jan 2023
drugs.com
Inpatient Mortality Up With Exposure to High Capacity Utilization
...study published online Dec. 19 in BMC Health Services Research. Narayan Sharma, Ph.D., from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues conducted a retrospective population-based analysis using...
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13 Jan 2023
The Economic Times
WEF 2023: A snowless Davos shows the world’s elite climate risk to global economy
...by the white snow. That causes even more warming, according to Sabine Rumpf, a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland, setting in motion a negative feedback loop and accelerating temperature...
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12 Jan 2023
swissinfo (en.)
A Snowless Davos Tells the World’s Elite All They Need to Know
...by the white snow. That causes even more warming, according to Sabine Rumpf, a professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland, setting in motion a negative feedback loop and accelerating temperature...
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09 Jan 2023
Healthcare Purchasing News
Study Reveals Link Between Increased Bed Occupancy and Mortality
...have long suspected a link between bed occupancy and mortality in hospitals. Now, a study by the University of Basel has provided the missing data, revealing that smaller hospitals reach their capacity limit...
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05 Jan 2023
China Daily (Global Edition)
Bare ski slopes make for bleak climate view
...led to Switzerland trying to preserve water to focus on hydroelectric power, and a study by the University of Basel said increased use of artificial snow in affected regions could send water consumption...
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04 Jan 2023
The Irish Times
Continent experiencing ‘most extreme weather event ever seen in European climatology’ as eight countries record warmest January days on record
...next seven days and only 23 out of 70 lifts are open, according to onthesnow.com. A study by the University of Basle warns higher resorts will have to rely increasingly on artificial snow to survive in the...
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04 Jan 2023
swissinfo (engl.)
Swiss ski resorts struggle with snow shortage and record temperatures
...notedExternal link the national tourist board on January 3. A recent studyExternal link by the University of Basel says that as global warming progresses higher resorts with skiing above 1,800 metres should...
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04 Jan 2023
Guardian
Record warm winters in parts of Europe force closure of ski slopes
...change winter tourism. Nor is artificial snow likely to provide much relief: a recent study by the University of Basel calculated that the water consumption of ski resorts who turn to snow canon could rise...
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04 Jan 2023
Wired
A Mass Extinction Is Taking Place in the Human Gut
...collaboration between Jigjiga University, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and the University of Basel. Pastoralists use milk as a staple food, so their diet is rich in fatty acids. Until now,...
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02 Jan 2023
wn.com
Winter ski holidays in the Alps could become a thing of the past thanks to ...
...in the Alps could soon become a thing of the past, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Basel have warned that snowy slopes are quickly disappearing, with climate change to blame. In...
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02 Jan 2023
telegraph.co.uk
Climate change could disrupt future Christmas ski holidays, scientists predict
...through to the end of February. But climate change is set to impact this too, researchers at the University of Basel found, as the water droplets fired by the cannons will no longer as efficiently combine,...
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02 Jan 2023
Daily Mail
Winter ski holidays in the Alps could become a thing of the past thanks to climate change, study warns
...the Alps could soon become a thing of the past, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Basel have warned that snowy slopes are quickly disappearing, with climate change to blame. ...
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29 Dec 2022
scienceblog.com
Skiing over Christmas holidays no longer guaranteed – even with snow guns
...global warming progresses, however, white slopes are becoming increasingly rare. Researchers at the University of Basel have calculated how well one of Switzerland’s largest ski resorts will remain snow reliable...
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29 Dec 2022
CTV News
Skiing in December not guaranteed with climate change, research shows
...mid-to-late December. At the Andermatt-Sedrun-Disentis ski resort in Switzerland, researchers from the University of Basel calculated how man-made snow might keep the ski season to 100 days or more into the next...
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17 Dec 2022
Canada Today
Groundbreaking cancer discovery turns cancer cells back into normal cells
...capacity they resemble stem cells or cells in an early stage of maturity. Researchers from the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel have tested the possibility of artificially maturing...
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15 Dec 2022
phys.org
Early green, early brown: Climate change leads to earlier senescence in alpine plants
by University of Basel Alpine plants that start to grow earlier also start to age earlier. As is the case with the alpine vegetation in these containers, which were exposed to summer weather several...
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14 Dec 2022
themarket.ch
The Swiss National Bank’s Options
The SNB will continue to raise policy interest rates to combat inflation. However, it could make use of another monetary policy instrument: adjusting the size of its balance sheet.
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13 Dec 2022
Physicsworld.com
Superconductor spin-correlation measurement is claimed as a first 13 Dec 2022
...a Cooper pair into a spin-up electron and a spin-down electron. (Courtesy: Department of Physics/University of Basel/Scixel) An experiment has shown that the spins of two electrons in a Cooper pair have...
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12 Dec 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Molecules found in mucus could prevent cholera infection
...Journal. Other key members of the research team are Rachel Hevey, a research associate at the University of Basel; Micheal Tiemeyer, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University...
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07 Dec 2022
phys.org
Unexpected speed-dependent friction in graphene
by Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel Graphical abstract. Credit: Nano Letters (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03667 Due to their low-friction properties, materials consisting of...
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06 Dec 2022
Boston Globe
The pros and cons of a meat tax
...wouldn’t necessarily make much difference in people’s buying decisions, Alena Schmidt, a researcher at University of Basel in Switzerland, and her colleagues found in a model of Swiss consumer behavior. That’s...
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06 Dec 2022
swissinfo (engl.)
How AI helps children with cleft lip and palate
...The digital process developed by Müller, head of the Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment Centre at the University of Basel, and scientists at the Department of Computer Science at the federal technology institute...
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05 Dec 2022
Technology Networks
"Basel: Europe’s Booming Biotech Powerhouse"
...Engineering (D-BSSE) of the ETH Zurich – one of just two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology – and the University of Basel. In total, there are 14 universities less than an hour’s drive away. The city’s unique...
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05 Dec 2022
swissinfo (engl.)
‘There is no such thing as an altruistic state’
Laurent Goetschel is director of swisspeace and professor of political science at the University of Basel. zVg Series Peacekeeping, Episode 5: Laurent Goetschel is arguably the most high-profile promoter...
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01 Dec 2022
Washington Post
Why falling asleep with the lights on is bad for your health
...yet time to sleep,” said Christine Blume, sleep scientist at the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel. In the morning, short wavelength-rich light such as sunlight helps us wake up and aligns...
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30 Nov 2022
Vogue (US)
An exhibition in Italy reveals the uses of photography as information technology
...between the photographer Armin Linke and photography historian Estelle Blaschke, researcher at the University of Basel. Curated by Francesco Zanot, the exhibition shows a four-year-long research project that...
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23 Nov 2022
Nanowerk
Spin correlation between paired electrons demonstrated
(Nanowerk News) Physicists at the University of Basel have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that there is a negative correlation between the two spins of an entangled pair of electrons from...
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22 Nov 2022
todayuknews.com
Liver cancer: How liver cells go astray
One of the main causes of liver cancer is excessive alcohol consumption. Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel The causes of liver cancer are manifold. In addition to metabolic disorders such as those...
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15 Nov 2022
ET Healthworld.com
How COVID-19 causes neurological damage found
...effects ranging from lasting concentration problems to strokes, the study said. Researchers, from the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, have studied the mechanisms responsible for...
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10 Nov 2022
ScienceDaily
Control of cell population sizes: When is enough enough?
Researchers at the University of Basel have uncovered a cell-intrinsic mechanism, that controls the appropriate number of T cells in the organism and thus ensures that the immune system functions properly....
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09 Nov 2022
Texarkana Gazette
Are trees talking underground? For scientists, it's in dispute.
...forest research has continued to grow, too. In 2016, Tamir Klein, a plant ecophysiologist then at the University of Basel and now at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, extended Simard's research into...
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08 Nov 2022
ScienceNews
Here’s how mysterious last-resort antibiotics kill bacteria
...bacteria die. The finding was a total surprise, says Sebastian Hiller, a structural biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Sign Up For the Latest from Science News Headlines and summaries of...
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08 Nov 2022
Al Bawaba
Sugar can be used to attack cancerous cells
...sugar molecules on their surface to disable attacks by the body’s immune system. Researchers at the University of Basel now report on how this mechanism can be neutralized.@LImmunotherapy @DepBiomedicine @UniSpitalBaselhttps://t.co/f6G...
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07 Nov 2022
ScienceDaily
Sugar molecules as a target in cancer therapy
...sugar molecules on their surface to disable attacks by the body's immune system. Researchers at the University of Basel now report on how this mechanism can be neutralized. advertisement The immune system...
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06 Nov 2022
The Times of Israel
Cases still low but new COVID strains spreading, with ominous echoes of past winters
...on either of the big questions regarding these variants, but there are some early insights. The University of Basel computational biologist Cornelius Roemer tweeted that based on his analysis, the the BQ.1...
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29 Oct 2022
Daily Mail
Two new strains of Covid have been found in the UK which may be immune to current vaccines, health officials warn
...assess the situation regarding the new variants. Experts at the Biozentrum research facility at the University of Basel warned a 'swarm' in these Covid-19 variants could lead to a 'significant' new wave of cases...
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25 Oct 2022
phys.org
Integration on a chip: Miniaturized infrared detectors
...Empa, ETH Zurich, EPFL, the University of Salamanca, Spain, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the University of Basel has built a proof-of-concept miniaturized Fourier-transform waveguide spectrometer that...
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23 Oct 2022
The New York Times
A ‘Tripledemic’? Flu and Other Infections Return as Covid Cases Rise
...previous variants,” said Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist in Richard Neher’s group at the University of Basel. The Food and Drug Administration has authorized boosters designed for BA.5 for all Americans...
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20 Oct 2022
BBC
All Consuming: Light Bulbs
Charlotte and Amit expose some shocking truths behind the history of the light bulb. We hear from media historian Markus Krajewski about how a cartel of companies conspired to limit the lifespan of light bulbs in the first known example of ‘planned obsolescence’.
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18 Oct 2022
Washington Post
XBB, BQ.1.1, BA.2.75.2 — a variant swarm could fuel a winter surge
...bigger advantage a new variant seems to have. Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, has been ranking the new omicron sublineages by how many mutations they...
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18 Oct 2022
Markets Insider
Implenia wins order for large, complex new laboratory project at University of Basel
...and Lean Construction used for planning and execution Glattpark (Opfikon), 18 October 2022 The University of Basel has contracted Implenia Division Buildings to build a new laboratory complex for its Department...
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11 Oct 2022
foxnews.com
Dog owner good news: Petting your dog may lead to stronger memory and better problem solving skills
...author Rahel Marti, a Ph.D. student in clinical psychology and animal-assisted interventions at the University of Basel in Switzerland, told Fox News Digital in an interview that the findings imply that interacting...
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09 Oct 2022
Jerusalem Post
Petting dogs engages the social brain - study
...clinical therapy, according to a study published yesterday. Rahel Marti and colleagues at the University of Basel in Switzerland found that viewing, feeling, and touching real dogs increases the level...
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07 Oct 2022
Psychology Today
New Discovery: The Cerebellum Enhances Emotional Memories
...the cerebrum (activations in green) to enhance the storage of emotional information. Source: MCN/University of Basel As seen in this image with green and red highlights, researchers from the University...
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07 Oct 2022
People
Dog Cuddles Help People Feel More Sociable and Less Stressed, Study Finds
...in contact with the dog the activation is stronger," the study's lead author, Rahel Marti of the University of Basel, Switzerland, told SWNS. Dogs Can Smell When Humans Are Stressed Out, Study Finds ...
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06 Oct 2022
scienceblog.com
Petting dogs engages the social brain, according to neuroimaging
...is measured while the participant interacts with the dog. Researchers led by Rahel Marti at the University of Basel in Switzerland report that viewing, feeling, and touching real dogs leads to increasingly...
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06 Oct 2022
CNN.com international
What petting a dog can do for your brain
...doctoral student in the division of clinical psychology and animal-assisted interventions at the University of Basel in Switzerland, in an email. Why is this finding important? It provides additional evidence...
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06 Oct 2022
Daily Express
New Covid variant set to 'swarm' UK by next month as NHS orders the return of masks
...the BA.4/BA.5, after which they started to fall steadily. The Biozentrum research facility at the University of Basel, which has been studying the evolution of the virus since the outbreak began in 2019, warned...
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05 Oct 2022
Daily Mail
Why stroking dogs is GOOD for you (not that you need an excuse)
...our furry friends, and now a new study has shed light on exactly why that is. Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland compared brain scans of study participants while they were stroking a pooch...
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05 Oct 2022
telegraph.co.uk
Why just stroking a dog really can make you happy
...shows that it makes them happy would be too much simplification,” Rahel Marti, study author from the University of Basel, told The Telegraph. “But we think that one explanation is that the participants were...
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05 Oct 2022
The Independent
‘Swarm’ of new Covid subvariants could drive wave across Europe and the US by end of November, expert warns
...evasive ability according to early data. According to the Biozentrum research facility at the University of Basel, which has been studying the evolution of the virus since the pandemic started, there is...
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04 Oct 2022
medicalxpress.com
New ways of reducing antibiotics in primary care
...unnecessarily. This facilitates the emergence of antibiotic resistance. That is why researchers at the University of Basel led by Heiner C. Bucher are specifically sensitizing family doctors, who prescribe antibiotics...
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04 Oct 2022
The Korea Herald
Basel and Seoul agree to cooperate on innovation
...medical startups with overseas competitiveness jointly with the Seoul metropolitan government and the University of Basel and supports clinical and nonclinical research in Switzerland at the University of Basel...
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30 Sep 2022
techxplore.com
A computational shortcut for neural networks
by Oliver Morsch, University of Basel Neural networks (centre) can be used to investigate phase transitions, for instance of magnetic materials (arrows). Credit: Department of Physics, University of...
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28 Sep 2022
drugs.com
Happiness From Home Buying Is Often Fleeting, Study Shows
...author Alois Stutzer. He is director of the Center for Research in Economics and Well-Being at the University of Basel, in Switzerland. The sobering reality was that people tend to “over-estimate their future...
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28 Sep 2022
Science.org
Big COVID-19 waves may be coming, new Omicron strains suggest
...Probably multiple things are coming,” says Cornelius Roemer, who studies viral evolution at the University of Basel. Whether they will also lead to many hospitalizations and deaths is the big question. ...
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22 Sep 2022
phys.org
Developing ultracold circuits: Physicists set a new low-temperature record
...thermometer along with a scale bar can be seen in the center of the image (golden rectangle). Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics When materials are cooled down to extremely low temperatures,...
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21 Sep 2022
The Economic Times
Study suggests owning home leads to lesser happiness than expected
...it's intended as an investment in happiness. Prof. Dr Alois Stutzer and Dr Reto Odermatt of the University of Basel's Faculty of Business and Economics examined whether home-buyers expected to increase in...
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15 Sep 2022
Science.org
For now, the monkeypox virus
...genomes is more complex than the RNA viruses,” says Richard Neher, a computational biologist at the University of Basel. “It will be more important than with SARS-CoV-2 that people share their raw data.” Still,...
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14 Sep 2022
British Journal of Photography
Meet the winners of Carte Blanche 2022: Sumi Anjuman, Jérémie Danon, Alessandra Leta, and Philip Tsetinis
...testimonies while decontextualizing them from reality, through imaginary spaces.” Alessandra Leta University of Basel, Switzerland In The Unmovable Mover Alessandra Leta investigates the power dynamics within...
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11 Sep 2022
womanandhome.com
Why do I keep waking up early?
...internal body clock that it's time to wake up. Light is particularly key here, explains a study by the University of Basel (opens in new tab), as sunlight is one of the key factors that influences the circadian...
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10 Sep 2022
Daily Mail
How you can grow little grey cells that could help tackle depression and anxiety WITHOUT the need for medication
...more intense than you would get indoors. In a small study published in July, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland allocated 22 women with severe post-natal depression to either 30 minutes...
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07 Sep 2022
todayuknews.com
Some screen use before bedtime might be OK for your sleep after all
...hormone melatonin that usually makes you feel drowsy. To dig a little deeper, Christine Blume at the University of Basel in Switzerland and her colleagues wanted to test whether blue light that affects only intrinsically...
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06 Sep 2022
bionity.com (eng.)
Insufficient insulin processing leads to overweight
...increases the risk of an imbalance in sugar metabolism and even of diabetes. A research group at the University of Basel has now shown the opposite is true as well: deficits in the body’s insulin production contribute...
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05 Sep 2022
phys.org
Researchers succeed in coupling two types of electron-hole pairs
...Richard Warburton of the Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) of the University of Basel have coupled these two types of electron-hole pairs by bringing the two of them to similar...
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05 Sep 2022
NewScientist
Some screen use before bedtime might be OK for your sleep after all
Christine Blume at the University of Basel in Switzerland and her colleagues wanted to test whether blue light that affects only intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) in the eyes would have any effect on subsequent sleep quality.
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04 Sep 2022
blogarama.com
Obesity can be caused by impaired insulin production during the early stages of type 2.
...Obesity can increase the risk of diabetes and a sugar metabolism imbalance. Recent research by the University of Basel showed that obesity can also be caused by insufficient insulin production. Lifestyle factors...
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04 Sep 2022
Mint
Inadequate insulin production leads to obesity: Study
...inadequacies in the body's insulin production also contribute to obesity, according to a study group at the University of Basel as quoted by news agency ANI. It stated that poor nutrition, very less movement, and...
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02 Sep 2022
ScienceDaily
Insufficient insulin processing leads to overweight
...increases the risk of an imbalance in sugar metabolism and even of diabetes. A research group at the University of Basel has now shown the opposite is true as well: deficits in the body's insulin production contribute...
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23 Aug 2022
Al Jazeera
The economy still centre stage ahead of Angola’s elections
...economist at University Agostinho Neto in Luanda. But Jon Schubert, a political anthropologist at the University of Basel, says he thinks the ruling MPLA has yet to demonstrate the political will to end Angola’s...
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20 Aug 2022
Daily Mail
Body of Angolan ex-president due in Luanda amid tense election campaign
...monopolise the media, as usual," Jon Schubert, a political anthropologist and Angola expert at the University of Basel, told Reuters, referring to the repatriation of Dos Santos' body. Most Angolan media is...
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19 Aug 2022
U.S. News & World Report
Unequal and Divided, Angola Braces for Tense Election
...affect people very directly ... haven't been solved," Jon Schubert, an anthropology professor at the University of Basel. "The cost of living is very high and salaries are worth a third of what they were six...
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18 Aug 2022
Reuters (USA)
Explainer: What is at stake for investors in Angola's elections?
...political will to end Angola's dependency on oil, said Jon Schubert, a political anthropologist at the University of Basel. UNITA has promised to end the "concentration of the economy in a single political and...
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15 Aug 2022
Psychology Today
5 Surprising Ways Gut Health Affects Mental Health
...Source: Source: Alicia Harper/Pexels 3. Probiotics Enhance Antidepressants Scientists from the University of Basel and the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK) reported in the journal Translational...
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14 Aug 2022
Forbes Magazine
Real Estate Metaverse Real Estate Under Water
...very high likelihood that you're going to lose everything,” says Fabian Schär, a professor at the University of Basel and the managing director at the school’s Center for Innovative Finance. Most corporate...
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08 Aug 2022
Psychology Today
Three Natural Remedies Shown to Help Depression and Anxiety
... Source: OpenClipart-Vectors/Pixabay The Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis A research team from the University of Basel and the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK) has reported in the journal Translational...
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04 Aug 2022
Forbes (US)
Careers Do Young People Just Need To Have A Dream?
...future and an underlying pessimism about what prospects are in store for them. Research from the University of Basel suggests underlines the importance of aspirations to the career of any young person. Indeed,...
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28 Jul 2022
WRS
Four Swiss universities to join EU higher education scheme
...alliances, alongside CIVIS2, of which the University of Lausanne is a member, and EPICUR, linked to the University of Basel. The University of Geneva is associated with the ‘ICORE’ alliance, which aims to offer...
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26 Jul 2022
phys.org
Ambitious career aspirations: A balancing act between success and disappointment
...occupational aspirations, as shown by a new study co-authored by economist Dr. Reto Odermatt of the University of Basel. Unrealistically high aspirations as a teenager, however, can have a negative effect on...
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26 Jul 2022
Newsweek
Carbon Dioxide-Storing Bacterial Enzyme May Help Fight Climate Change
...change. luminous-lab.com/Zenger/Verena Resch The team, led by Dr. Ben Engel at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel in Switzerland along with colleagues from the Universities of Frankfurt and Marburg in...
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25 Jul 2022
Forbes (US)
Careers Shifting Our Aging Society From A Burden To An Asset
...that the stereotypes become self-fulfilling. It's perhaps no great surprise that research from the University of Basel finds that such an environment makes older workers feel excluded from the workforce. Of...
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20 Jul 2022
Mirror
Brain reaction to smell of food makes it harder for obese people to regulate weight, study claims
...obese was "excessive", slowing insulin output and making it more difficult to regulate weight. The University of Basel study measured the output of one inflammatory chemical (IL-1β) within the body of mice,...
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15 Jul 2022
Wired
How Heat Waves Are Messing Up Your Sleep
...know that cooler temperatures support deep sleep,” says Christine Blume, a sleep scientist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. So when our ability to regulate body temperature is impaired because it...
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07 Jul 2022
medicalnewstoday.com
Obesity: Is the sight or smell of food enough to trigger inflammation in the brain?
...has been recognized for some time, but the mechanisms involved were unclear. Now, a study from the University of Basel has shown that a short-term inflammatory response is responsible for this early insulin...
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01 Jul 2022
Jerusalem Post
Food for thought: The brain changes by just looking at a meal- study
...smell of a meal triggers a series of responses in the body, according to the novel findings by the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel. Most are familiar with the mouthwatering sensation prior...
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30 Jun 2022
The Diplomat
Botakoz Kassymbekova and Erica Marat on Russia’s ‘Imperial Myth’
...strip away that fantasy and see the past for what it truly was. Kassymbekova, a lecturer at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and Marat, an associate professor at the National Defense University’s...
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28 Jun 2022
techexplorist.com
Photon Storage in a Ground-State Vapor Cell Quantum Memory
...the control laser pulse and thereby initiates the storage process. (Image: Department of Physics/University of Basel) Single photons are ideal carriers of quantum information, especially because they are...
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28 Jun 2022
allafrica.com
Angola Election 2022 - 'Dirty Tricks' As Election Nears
...Commission will not act independently. UNITA plans its own vote count Jon Schubert, a researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland, expressed similar views. "The formation of the 'United Patriotic Front...
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28 Jun 2022
Daily Mail
Credit Suisse must pay almost £18m for failing to stop laundering of Bulgarian drug money
...Switzerland’s efforts to clean up its banking industry. Mark Pieth, a money laundering expert at the University of Basel, said: ‘What is significant about this case is that Switzerland is taking legal action...
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27 Jun 2022
startupticker.ch
NextImmune wins CHF 150,000 to develop a new generation of immunosuppressive drugs
...responses while maintaining the immune responses needed to defend against infections and cancers. The University of Basel spin-off will use the CHF 150,000 Venture Kick financing to reach the next value inflection...
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24 Jun 2022
Newsweek
Trench Fever That Affected Tolkien, C.S. Lewis Could Be Prevented: Scientists
...States, France, and Burundi. Now, a team of experts in molecular and biomedical research at the University of Basel in Switzerland have detected neutralizing antibodies that bring bacterial infections to...
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23 Jun 2022
csrwire.com
Why Reforestation Is More Complicated Than You Think
...down or destroyed,” notes Ansgar Kahmen, a botanist and professor of environmental science at the University of Basel who studies how reforestation changes in the face of a changing climate. “I think we’re...
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22 Jun 2022
Guardian
Wrist-worn trackers can detect Covid before symptoms, study finds
...the disease more widely. Researchers from the Dr Risch Medical Laboratory in Liechtenstein, the University of Basel in Switzerland, McMaster University in Canada and Imperial College London tested the Ava...
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21 Jun 2022
Time Magazine
Ukraine’s Women Refugees Face the Harsh Reality of Poland’s Abortion Restrictions
...by others,” says Ukrainian academic and member Marta Havryshko, who is also a URIS Fellow at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “We have many, many cases.” Since coming to power in 2015, Poland’s right-wing...
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21 Jun 2022
Inverse
Ancient stalagmites point to a massive drought that upturned 6th century Arabia
...co-author Dominik Fleitmann tells Inverse. Fleitmann is a geologist and paleoclimatologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. The Himyarite Kingdom ruled over the portion of the Arabian Peninsula...
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21 Jun 2022
Materials Today
Separate quantum dots generate identical photons
An artistic representation of separate quantum dots emitting identical photons. Image: University of Basel, Department of Physics. Identical light particles (photons) are important for many technologies...
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21 Jun 2022
Daily Express
Supplements: Probiotics may help to alleviate depression – early signs
...Furthermore, scientists are now looking into whether diet can have an impact too. Researchers from the University of Basel were looking into the role intestinal flora (gut microbiota) play in overall health. ...
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21 Jun 2022
The Star Online - Malaysia News
Seen from space, the snow-capped Alps are going green due to climate change
...honestly, to find such a huge trend in greening,” said first author Sabine Rumpf, an ecologist at the University of Basel. Greening is a well-recognised phenomenon in the Arctic, but until now hadn’t been well...
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19 Jun 2022
openforum.com.au
Russia’s rape of Ukraine
...an emergency fellowship at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, and is now a URIS Fellow at Basel University. In her seminar, Dr Havryshko theorised that the frequency, nature, and effects of sexual...
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18 Jun 2022
scientificinquirer.com
Droughts in the sixth century paved the way for Islam.
...contributed to the decline of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Himyar. Researchers from the University of Basel have reported these findings in the journal Science. Combined with political unrest and...
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16 Jun 2022
Ha Aretz
Megadrought Contributed to Fall of Jewish Kingdom in Arabia, Rise of Islam, Study Suggests
...demise of Himyar and the emergence of Islam,” says Professor Dominik Fleitmann, a geologist from the University of Basel in Switzerland and the lead author on the study. Map of the ancient South Arabian kingdom...
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16 Jun 2022
Daily Mail
Extreme DROUGHTS on the Arabian peninsula paved the way for the rise of Islam in the seventh century, study reveals
...kingdom of Aksum (now Ethiopia), suggests a relationship between the two events The experts from the University of Basel in Switzerland therefore believe that extreme drought may have been decisive in contributing...
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13 Jun 2022
phys.org
Twin photons from different quantum dots
...dots of the Basel researchers are different, they emit exactly identical light particles. Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Identical light particles (photons) are important for many technologies...
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13 Jun 2022
neurosciencenews.com
Good Bacteria to Tackle Depression
...Intestinal flora plays an important role in health – including mental health. Researchers from the University of Basel and the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK) have shown that probiotics can support...
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06 Jun 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Molecules found in mucus can thwart fungal infection
...them. Key members of the research team also include Rachel Hevey, a research associate at the University of Basel; Micheal Tiemeyer, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University...
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06 Jun 2022
India Today
Climate change: Alps turning green, vanishing snow cover visible from space
...productivity in the European Alps. The team, which had researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel found that the reduction in snow cover is visible from space as triggered by the melting...
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03 Jun 2022
The Atlantic
We Should Have Seen Monkeypox Coming
...mutations as “scars” from battling with the host immune system, says Richard Neher, a biologist at the University of Basel, though it’s impossible to say whether any could also be adaptive. In any case, monkeypox...
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03 Jun 2022
metro.co.uk
‘Absolutely massive’ consequences of climate change in the Alps visible from space
...Arctic – the mountain range is turning green. Researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel used satellite data to show that vegetation above the tree line has increased in nearly...
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03 Jun 2022
Al Arabiya (en.)
Consequences of climate change in the Alps now visible from space: Research
...researchers have found in a damning new report. Researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel used satellite data to show that, just like the Arctic, the snowy Alpine mountain range...
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02 Jun 2022
Daily Mail
Climate change is melting the ALPS: Satellite images reveal how the European mountain range is becoming greener amid rising temperatures
...conditions will out-compete many Alpine plants, researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel said. They also discovered that snow cover had decreased significantly in almost 10 per...
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02 Jun 2022
gizmodo.com
The Alps Are Getting Ominously Greener
...research, which is published in the journal Science this week. Sabine Rumpf, assistant professor at the University of Basel, led the study. The team collected satellite images taken of the Alps from 1984 to 2021,...
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02 Jun 2022
Guardian
Global heating is turning white Alps green, study finds
...the change has turned out to be absolutely massive in the Alps,” said Prof Sabine Rumpf, of the University of Basel, and lead author of the paper which was published in Science. Mountain areas are heating...
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01 Jun 2022
chemeurope.com
From the packet into your food: what harmful substances are in food packaging?
...substances that can be transferred to its contents. It also includes findings from researchers at the University of Basel, who are investigating plastic molecules that were previously unknown or barely known....
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30 May 2022
Newsweek
Why Do I Get Depressed at Night?
...biochemistry following a 24-hour pattern," a chronobiologist from the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, Switzerland, told Newsweek. "Our mood, alertness, performance, well-being—as examples—follow...
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16 May 2022
nature
Flu vaccine could cut COVID risk
...was posted to the medRxiv.org preprint server on 10 May. Günther Fink, an epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, says the Qatar analysis reduces the odds that other studies which uncovered...
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12 May 2022
phys.org
Quantum one-way street in topological insulator nanowires
...current to flow more easily in one direction along the nanowire than in the opposite one. Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Very thin wires made of a topological insulator could enable highly...
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12 May 2022
ScienceDaily
When unconscious, the brain is anything but 'silent'
...paper recently published in Neuron, researchers from the group of Professor Botond Roska at the University of Basel and the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology (IOB) reveal how different cell...
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12 May 2022
Al Arabiya (en.)
Switzerland has frozen a total of $6.3 billion in Russian assets to date
...Russian riches over the past two decades has come under scrutiny. Mark Pieth, a law professor at the University of Basel and a corruption expert, said the Swiss authorities had shown a “lack of courage” to date...
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09 May 2022
myScience Schweiz
Assess and predict the quality of drinking water
Oliver Schilling spends most of his working time at the University of Basel, where he has been gathering his research group around him as a new assistant professor of hydrogeology since the beginning of...
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27 Apr 2022
swissinfo (engl.)
Looming bacterial pandemic triggers debate over how to pay for new antibiotics
Basel alone hosts 18 university-based research groups working on antimicrobial resistance as well as collaborative ventures like NCCR AntiResist, which received CHF17 million from the government-backed Swiss National Science Foundation to discover new approaches to antibiotics.
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24 Apr 2022
menafn.com
2MB field notes from Antarctica
...there: rising plastic pollution. This spring, Gabriel Erni Cassola and Kevin Leuenberger from the University of Basel are on board the German icebreaker“PolarsternExternal link” in the Southern Ocean that...
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20 Apr 2022
ScienceDaily
Multiple treatments to slow age-related muscle wasting
...declines. Some older people suffer from excessive muscle loss, a condition known as sarcopenia. University of Basel researchers show that a combination therapy could delay the onset of sarcopenia. advertisement...
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20 Apr 2022
Time Magazine
Ukrainians Are Speaking Up About Rape as a War Crime to Ensure the World Holds Russia Accountable
...in contemporary history at the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies and a URIS Fellow at Basel University. “Russian soldiers are trying to send a signal to the whole community: we are the winners,...
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19 Apr 2022
dw.com (en.)
Switzerland to launch 1st cannabis sale pilot in summer
...government said. The project, which involves authorities and researchers from the local government, the University of Basel and the University Psychiatric Clinics, Basel, will run for two and a half years. Health...
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15 Apr 2022
The New Stack
Scientists Look to Control Quantum State Without Measuring It
...and waves, unlike in classical systems. Researchers from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute of the University of Basel are now looking into how to get around these issues, by taking advantage of the quantum...
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14 Apr 2022
Newsweek
New Omicron Sub-Types BA.4 and BA.5 May Be More Able to Dodge Antibodies
...there's always the first time." In addition, Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, tweeted on Wednesday: "I see a lot of public worry around BA.4/BA.5 that...
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14 Apr 2022
swissinfo (engl.)
Why are we looking at plastic pollution in the Antarctic?
Plastic pollution has been detected wherever scientists have looked for it; from the depths of the ocean to the snow in the Alps, and from the North to the South Pole. But if plastic “is everywhere”, then why go to Antarctica to study this form of pollution?
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13 Apr 2022
businesswire.com
Versant Ventures Launches Cimeio Therapeutics with $50 Million Series A
...developed in the labs of founder Lukas Jeker, M.D., Ph.D., Professor at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Head of Experimental Transplantation Immunology & Nephrology at the Basel University...
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13 Apr 2022
FierceBiotech
Cimeio exits stealth with $50M, but its cell therapy technology aims to stay incognito
...Lukas Jeker, M.D., Ph.D., professor of experimental transplantation immunology and nephrology at the University of Basel. Fuchs believes Cimeio’s technology has significant therapeutic potential, and, if successful,...
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13 Apr 2022
nzz.ch
Aktien sind auch für Rentner ein Thema
...einem deutlich geringeren gemessenen Risiko. Erwin W. Heri, Professor für Finanztheorie an der Universität Basel und Gründungsmitglied der Finanzausbildungsplattform Fintool.ch, sagt: «Für eine zielorientierte...
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11 Apr 2022
Mint
Central banks that enter the cryptosphere could save DeFi
...others. Much of what passes as DeFi today is just “decentralization theatre," as Fabian Schar, a University of Basel professor of blockchain, describes it. In theory, this hot new crypto corner wasn’t envisioned...
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11 Apr 2022
Bloomberg.com
Central Banks Can Save DeFi, as Weird as That Sounds
...others. Much of what passes as DeFi today is just “decentralization theater,” as Fabian Schar, a University of Basel professor of blockchain, describes it. In theory, this hot new crypto corner wasn’t envisioned...
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11 Apr 2022
Washington Post
Central Banks Can Save DeFi, as Weird as That Sounds
...others. Much of what passes as DeFi today is just “decentralization theater,” as Fabian Schar, a University of Basel professor of blockchain, describes it. In theory, this hot new crypto corner wasn’t envisioned...
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06 Apr 2022
bloombergquint.com
Switzerland’s Russia Wealth Hunt Earns Criticism Despite $6 Billion Haul
...real oversight on the part of the Swiss government, says Mark Pieth, a former law professor at the University of Basel and an anti-corruption expert. Sanctions were first imposed on Russians with assets in...
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05 Apr 2022
menafn.com
Switzerland must regulate its opaque shipping industry
...killing more than 200 people. Kathrin Betz is an attorney and a lecturer in criminal law at the University of Basel. zVg SWI: Why is it so opaque? M.P.: There is a range of theories. The most banal is...
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05 Apr 2022
swissinfo (engl.)
Switzerland must regulate its opaque shipping industry
Landlocked Switzerland is an important shipping centre and therefore a significant maritime power. A new book explains how this came about and why the industry needs to be better regulated.
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30 Mar 2022
News Medical
Researchers present a possible therapeutic approach for severe congenital myopathy
...disorders often never learn to walk. Until now, there was no chance of recovery, but researchers at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel are now presenting a possible therapeutic approach for the...
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29 Mar 2022
techxplore.com
Silicon FinFETs hosting hole spin qubits at temperatures over 4 Kelvin
...spins, which are known to degrade the coherence of spin qubits in quantum computers. Researchers at University of Basel and IBM Research-Zurich have recently explored the possibility of hosting spin qubits in...
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26 Mar 2022
nanotech-now.com
“Hot” spin quantum bits in silicon transistors
...challenges in developing this kind of powerful computer is scalability. A research group at the University of Basel, working with the IBM Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, has made a breakthrough in this...
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20 Mar 2022
menafn.com
What the Ukraine war means for Switzerland's energy policy
...against Russia have destabilised the energy supply,” says Aya Kachi, professor of energy policy at the University of Basel. Gas makes up roughly 15% of Switzerland's final energy consumption and is mostly used...
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18 Mar 2022
sciencealert.com
There's One Simple Aspect of Daily Life Tied to Better Wellbeing, Study Hints
...improve subjective wellbeing," explained clinical and health psychologist Andrew Gloster from the University of Basel. The findings add to a limited body of research on the effects of everyday activities...
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11 Mar 2022
todayuknews.com
Is the Ukraine war intensifying regulatory pressure on crypto firms?
...may seem at first glance,” Fabian Schär, professor in the business and economics department at the University of Basel, told Cointelegraph, although users have other options even if projects are not fully decentralized....
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10 Mar 2022
israelnationalnews.com
Switzerland to create memorial to victims of Nazism
...Swiss Jewish Community, the Christian-Jewish Working Group and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Basel. The conceptual proposal envisions three themes: remembering, communications and networking....
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10 Mar 2022
Mining Technology.com
Illegal gold in the Brazilian Amazon
...as the industry relies on self-regulation,” said Mark Pieth, a professor of criminal law at the University of Basel, in Switzerland. Data, insights and analysis delivered to you View all newsletters By...
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03 Mar 2022
techcodex.com
7,000-year-old grains hints at origin of Swiss pile dwellings
...around the Alps. It is a mystery, however, how this “building boom” came to be. Researchers at the University of Basel have now uncovered new clues and say that settlers at Lake Varese in northern Italy may...
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02 Mar 2022
High Times
Few Subjective Differences Between LSD and Psilocybin Trips, Study Finds
...participants were good at identifying, in fact, was which sample was the placebo. The study was led by the University of Basel’s Matthias Liechti. Researchers observed 28 healthy participants—and about half of the...
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02 Mar 2022
thelocal.ch
Sanctions on Russia: Is Switzerland still a neutral nation?
...Laurent Goetschel, Director of the Swiss Peace Foundation and a Political Science Professor at the University of Basel, said the fact Switzerland was upholding international law meant that its motives could...
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02 Mar 2022
newatlas.com
Landmark trial compares LSD and psilocybin trips, finds few differences
...the findings of this newly published research. The new study, led by Matthias Liechti from the University of Basel, recruited 28 healthy participants, around half of whom had never taken a psychedelic drug...
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01 Mar 2022
Daily Mail
Apple AirPods and Microsoft's Surface Pen can interfere with pacemaker-like devices and stop life-saving gadgets from working, heart experts warn
University of Basel researchers tested how close devices could be to ICDs They found it was not safe to put them closer than about 1.1inch (2.9cm) Dr Sven Knecht, involved in the study, raised the alarm...
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01 Mar 2022
Physics Today
A deterministic source of single photons
...University Bochum in Germany. Richard Warburton is a professor in the department of physics at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Physics Today 75, 3, 44 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4962 ...
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28 Feb 2022
Drug Development & Delivery
Santhera Signs Gene Therapy Agreement With SEAL Therapeutics
...Therapeutics will advance the gene therapy technology building on existing research progress from the Biozentrum Basel and Rutgers, both previously partially funded by Innosuisse and/or Santhera. The new company...
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26 Feb 2022
swissinfo (engl.)
Ukraine: What Swiss sanctions-busters need to consider
...- 11:00 February 26, 2022 - 11:00 Opinion by Mark Pieth Mark Pieth, Criminal Law Professor, University of Basel When Russia invaded Ukraine, the US and the EU announced economic sanctions, whereas...
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23 Feb 2022
sharecast.com (UK)
Poll results for Ukrainians' support for Nato membership and non-aligned status are mixed
...the choice is less clear than one might assume. According to Serhiy Kudelia, a URIS fellow at the University of Basel in Switzerland, as recently as November 21, public support for Nato membership was running...
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22 Feb 2022
The Namibian
The 1896 Redline – A Brief History
...later discovered at Epukiro, Grootfontein and in Windhoek. Giorgio Miescher, an historian at the University of Basel who wrote insightfully on the redline, said it seemed that rinderpest entered the territory...
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21 Feb 2022
Swiss Medical Weekly
Fair access to assistive technology? Gaps in transition from invalidity to old-age insurance in Switzerland
...Header image: © Yongnian Gui | Dreamstime.com Christopher Poppe Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland Andrea Martani Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland...
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21 Feb 2022
startupticker.ch
BaseLaunch invests CHF 1.5 million in three new startups
...Therapeutics and InCephalo Therapeutics. Aukera Therapeutics – is a spin-off from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, founded in 2021 by Stefan Imseng and Dritan Liko. The company is building a discovery...
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10 Feb 2022
Technology Networks
Magnesium Levels May Impact the Immune System Response
...of which is bound to proteins,” Christoph Hess, professor in the department of biomedicine at the University of Basel and the department of medicine at the University of Cambridge, told Technology Networks....
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09 Feb 2022
Russia Matters
NATO or Bust: Why Do Ukraine’s Leaders Dismiss Neutrality as a Security Strategy?
When Russia’s invasion of Crimea in spring of 2014 put Ukraine at the center of a renewed confrontation between Moscow and the West, leading U.S. strategic thinkers argued that Ukraine’s adoption of a permanent neutral status could defuse the crisis.
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08 Feb 2022
The New York Times
Swiss Banker’s Trial Rivets With Fraud Charges and Strip Club Visits
...will be rendered by the case’s three trial judges. Sabine Gless, a criminal law professor at the University of Basel, said it was hard to predict how the court would rule. “Many people think what has gone...
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08 Feb 2022
Exact Release
Omicron – and then?
...according to researchers it causes milder disease progression on average. Richard Neher from the University of Basel emphasizes that there is no direct connection between the severity of the disease and transmissibility....
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07 Feb 2022
Ars Technica
Atomic cloud key to controlling a quantum state without measuring it
...(center foreground) alter a laser so it extracts energy from a membrane (blue). Departement Physik, Universität Basel Way back when I was still working in the lab, there was a lot of buzz about something called...
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07 Feb 2022
Medical Dialogues
Prolonged use of Bed nets saves from Malaria, increases survival: NEJM
...between groups. Dr Günther Fink, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Household Economics at the University of Basel and Swiss TPH, and first author, said: "It's so important to be able to go back and find...
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04 Feb 2022
chemeurope.com
Cooling matter from a distance
University of Basel, Department of Physics Light is used to couple a vibrating membrane to a cloud of atoms in order to form a control loop. The two different quantum systems — consisting of the membrane...
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04 Feb 2022
News Medical
Study provides unique insight into long-term benefits of malaria control in children
...between groups. Dr Günther Fink, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Household Economics at the University of Basel and Swiss TPH, and first author, said: “It’s so important to be able to go back and find...
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03 Feb 2022
sky.com
Use of mosquito nets in malaria-prone countries helps children reach adulthood, study says It had been thought that preventing malaria infections in children left them with no immunity as they got older, simply delaying illness and possible ...
...the disease. Dr Gunther Fink, associate professor of epidemiology and household economics at the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and first author, said: "It is reassuring...
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02 Feb 2022
Science Magazine
Malaria-preventing bed nets save children’s lives—with impacts that can last for decades
Babies and infants who slept under bed nets still have a survival advantage 20 years later
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31 Jan 2022
ScienceDaily
Safeguarding the cell nucleus
...transport of substances from the cytoplasm to the cell nucleus and back. A research group at the University of Basel has now shown that different shuttle proteins occupy the nuclear pore to prevent unsolicited...
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29 Jan 2022
Business Standard
Covid: Here's how Omicron variant could have evolved
...feeling rather than any sort of principled argument", Richard Neher, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, was quoted as saying. Researchers agree that Omicron is a recent arrival....
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28 Jan 2022
nature
Where did Omicron come from? Three key theories
...rather than any sort of principled argument”, says Richard Neher, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “They are all fair game,” says Jinal Bhiman, a medical scientist at the...
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26 Jan 2022
The Sun
SNACK HAPPY The 6 popular snacks that can cut risk of dying from cancer
...chocolate A banana Peanut butter on bread or with fruit Greek yoghurt Researchers from the University of Basel, Switzerland, say that the level of magnesium in the body is an important factor in the...
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26 Jan 2022
bionity.com (eng.)
New rapid test could detect coronavirus and flu simultaneously
Researchers from the University of Basel and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a rapid test for Covid-19 with a novel functional principle. Although it requires further testing and improvements,...
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25 Jan 2022
Fortune Magazine
‘Stealth Omicron’ vs Omicron: What we know about the latest variant and how it differs from the original
...will still give a positive result," Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at Switzerland's University of Basel, wrote on Twitter. “[It's] frustrating to see falsehood about non-detectability still around."...
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25 Jan 2022
phys.org
New, better coronavirus rapid test
...Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Basel have developed a rapid test for COVID-19. Its novel functional principle promises reliable...
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24 Jan 2022
Newsweek
Stealth Omicron COVID Variant BA.2 That May Spread Faster Found in at Least 40 Countries
...to its "stealth Omicron" monicker. However, Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, tweeted last week that BA.2 is still detectable on PCR tests and branded...
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24 Jan 2022
medicalnewstoday.com
Magnesium may prime the immune system to fight cancer and infections
...bind to infected or abnormal cells,” explains senior author Dr. Christoph Hess, Ph.D., from the University of Basel in Switzerland and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. “If magnesium is...
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21 Jan 2022
The Namibian
Knowledge freed from colonial frames
...stakeholders. A first concrete step is the “Portal for African Research Collections”, based at the University of Basel library, with the BAB's Namibia focus implying a strong outreach to Namibian libraries...
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21 Jan 2022
Fortune Magazine
What is ‘stealth Omicron’? The rise of the subvariant is alarming some scientists who say it needs its own Greek letter
...will still give a positive result," Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at Switzerland's University of Basel, wrote on Twitter. “[It's] frustrating to see falsehood about non-detectability still around."...
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19 Jan 2022
ScienceDaily
Magnesium is essential for the immune system, including in the fight against cancer
...ability to tackle pathogens and cancer cells. Writing in the journal Cell, researchers from the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel have reported that T cells need a sufficient quantity of...
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19 Jan 2022
Mirror
Eating dark chocolate could help people fend off cancer, new study shows
...in green vegetables, wholemeal bread, nuts, avocado and brown rice. Author Prof Christoph Hess, of Basel University in Switzerland, said: “In order to verify this observation clinically [in patients] we’re...
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13 Jan 2022
Los Angeles Times
Tarnished Gold: Illegal Amazon gold seeps into supply chains
...as the industry relies on self-regulation,” said Mark Pieth, a professor of criminal law at the University of Basel in Switzerland and author of the 2018 book “Gold Laundering.” “People know where the gold...
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12 Jan 2022
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04 Jan 2022
hungarytoday.hu
Returning Vision to The Fully Blind – Interview with Dr. Botond Roska
...Institute for Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) in Switzerland and a Professor at the University of Basel. In 2019, he was awarded the Order of Saint Stephen, the highest national honor bestowed...
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03 Jan 2022
news24 (zu)
Scientists discover new human body part – that helps us chew
...are extremely inconsistent as to its position.” And upon investigation, the scientists from the University of Basel, Switzerland, succeeded in finding this deep layer in the jaw muscle. They say that their...
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03 Jan 2022
Jerusalem Post
Scientists discover new part of the human body - study
...results were, quite frankly, jaw-dropping. In fact, according to one of the researchers involved, University of Basel's Prof. Jens Christoph Türp, it's as if a new animal species had been found. The investigations...
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24 Dec 2021
IFL Science
A New Part Of The Human Body Has Been Discovered
...layer that the team, led by Türp and Dr Szilvia Mezey from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel, have finally discovered. The new muscle is located between the back of the cheekbones...
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24 Dec 2021
Jerusalem Post
Scientists discover new part of the human body - study
...results were, quite frankly, jaw-dropping. In fact, according to one of the researchers involved, University of Basel's Prof. Jens Christoph Türp, it's as if a new animal species had been found. The investigations...
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22 Dec 2021
drugs.com
'You Didn't Tag Me!' Instagram Snubs Hurt, Study Confirms
...study author Christiane Büttner. She's a PhD candidate in the department of social psychology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. And her research, she said, revealed that feeling excluded in the "digital...
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22 Dec 2021
infacts.org
Don’t envy Switzerland
...more realistic view now on what all of this means,” says Christa Tobler, a law professor at the University of Basel and an expert on Switzerland’s agreements with the EU. “Swiss people have seen very unpleasant...
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21 Dec 2021
ScienceDaily
New muscle layer discovered on the jaw
Human anatomy still has a few surprises in store for us: researchers at the University of Basel have discovered a previously overlooked section of our jaw muscles and described this layer in detail for...
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21 Dec 2021
The Hill
Researchers discover new muscle layer in humans' jaws
Story at a glance Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland found a previously overlooked section of the masseter muscle. The newly discovered layer runs from the back of the cheekbone to...
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20 Dec 2021
medicalxpress.com
New muscle layer discovered on the jaw
by University of Basel The newly discovered muscle layer runs from the back of the cheekbone to the anterior muscular process of the lower jaw. (S= superficial layer, D= deep layer, C= coronoid layer)....
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20 Dec 2021
startupticker.ch
CHF 150,000 to advance personalized therapies for Alzheimer’s disease
...managers and experts: Osmani served in several management positions before completing his PhD at the University of Basel. Rolf Wildermuth, former country president of Medtronic Switzerland, serves as chairman...
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16 Dec 2021
ScienceDaily
An enemy within: Pathogens hide in tissue
...cure many bacterial infections. However, some patients suffer a relapse. A research group at the University of Basel has now discovered why some bacteria can survive antibiotic therapy. The team uncovered...
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16 Dec 2021
techexplorist.com
Activity in brain while switching between hearing and listening
...and active listening. What if the brain switches to listening from hearing? Researchers at the University of Basel have traced the neuronal fingerprint of the two types of sound processing in the mouse...
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15 Dec 2021
Daily Mail
Economists call for Swiss National Bank to create $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund
...the SNB would intervene in a truly unlimited fashion," said Yvan Lengwiler, an economist at the University of Basel and a former economic advisor to the SNB. The SNB, which reviews monetary policy on Thursday,...
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14 Dec 2021
ScienceDaily
When the brain switches from hearing to listening
...in the brain when simply hearing becomes listening? To answer this question, researchers at the University of Basel have traced the neuronal fingerprint of the two types of sound processing in the mouse...
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13 Dec 2021
phys.org
An enemy within: Pathogens hide in tissue
...Salmonella survive antibiotic therapy in the white pulp (red) of the spleen. Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel Antibiotics cure many bacterial infections. However, some patients suffer a relapse....
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13 Dec 2021
Daily Mail
Scientists studying microplastics in Antarctica discover that 89 per cent of samples analysed came from the paint on their OWN SHIP
University of Basel-led experts studied microplastics in the remote Weddell Sea The team collected a total of 113 samples of water from the surface and beneath They filtered out 770 microplastic particles,...
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06 Dec 2021
thelocal.ch
‘2G’: Will Switzerland further tighten the Covid certificate?
...of tests, vaccinations and booster vaccinations”, according to Richard Neher, a biologist at the University of Basel. Elected officials are also speaking in favour of the ‘vaccinated and recovered only’...
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06 Dec 2021
innovationnewsnetwork.com
Locating microplastics in Antarctica
Researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred-Wegener Institute have revealed that it takes precise analysis to answer the question of where microplastics originate. Microplastics can be found...
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01 Dec 2021
chemeurope.com
Tracking down microplastics in Antarctica
...small particles come from, a research team from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel and the Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI) at the Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research...
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29 Nov 2021
phys.org
Tracking down microplastics in Antarctica
...is rinsed off before sampling to remove any particles that may have adhered beforehand. Credit: University of Basel, Patricia Holm Microplastics are everywhere, even in the most remote places. Where do...
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23 Nov 2021
phys.org
Women are less blinded by attractiveness than men
...Department of Psychology at the University of Freiburg together with Dr. Mirella Walker from the University of Basel in Switzerland. In their experiment, men and women were asked to decide, based on portrait...
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16 Nov 2021
Markets Insider
"On-Surface Shapeshifters" Exhibit Oxidation-State-Dependent Conformational and Self-assembly Behaviors: WPI-MANA
...research was completed by David Miklik (WPI-MANA) and S. Fatemeh Mousavi (Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland) under the leadership of Thomas Jung (Laboratory of Micro- and Nanotechnology,...
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16 Nov 2021
Daily Mail
Blood taken from runners can slow down dementia: Transfusion could be ground-breaking treatment for Alzheimer's disease, experts say
...50 women in labour, according to the recent study in the journal Midwifery. The researchers, from Basel University in Switzerland, say further trials are needed to identify the best positioning and, critically,...
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16 Nov 2021
Daily Mail
It's no joke! Why faking a LAUGH could help you beat anxiety as research shows people feel less stressed after a good giggle
...Professor Scott. These chemical changes make us calmer while we laugh — and afterwards. A 2020 study by Basel University, Switzerland, found that the more people laughed during a day, the less they felt affected...
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13 Nov 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Epidemiologists sceptical over stricter Covid certificate rules
...winter without overloading the health system, he said. Virus evolution expert Richard Neher, of the University of Basel, was more open to 2G, as current Swiss measures against the coronavirus were not enough...
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03 Nov 2021
archyworldys.com
Decision at the climate summit – This is how countries want to save the forests – the overview – News
...environment in recent years,” says Christian Körner, an expert in botany and biodiversity at the University of Basel. The forest should not be reduced to its carbon stocks: “It is an incredibly rich habitat...
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03 Nov 2021
The Wall Street Journal
Are Entrepreneurs Happier Than Everybody Else?
...They work harder than they expect they will. Alois Stutzer, professor of political economy at the University of Basel in Switzerland, analyzed survey data from over 1,000 German entrepreneurs between 1991...
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01 Nov 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Amateur archeologist uncovers Roman battle site
...case after discovering a 2,000-year-old Roman dagger. This alerted an archeology team from the University of Basel who have found several hundred other objects during an ongoing search of the 35,000 square...
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26 Oct 2021
The Vancouver Sun
‘Honey laundering’ and other food fraud costs billions. Now there's a new way to fight it
...Mexican-grown tomatoes sold as Canadian Using strawberries as their test case, botanists at the University of Basel have developed an efficient, low-cost approach to confirming claims of geographical origin....
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25 Oct 2021
BYU Radio
An App to Help You Overcome Arachnophobia
Snakes, heights, germs, do you have any phobias? Fear of spiders is one of the most common, and since we’re seeing a lot of them lurking in Halloween décor this time of year, we were intrigued by some work being done by Anja Zimmer at the University of Basel in Switzerland.
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23 Oct 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
SNB Leadership Absence Prompts Call for Governance Reform
...relying on such a small group of policy makers. Yvan Lengwiler, a professor of macroeconomics at the University of Basel, said the organization’s governance structure needs reform to make it more accountable....
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15 Oct 2021
ScienceDaily
Sustainable farming: There’s no one solution
Sustainable agriculture will not be achieved by one universal solution. A meta-analysis by the University of Basel shows that the current focus on no-till farming does not achieve the desired results. A...
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14 Oct 2021
myScience Schweiz
Sustainable farming: There’s no one solution
... Sustainable agriculture will not be achieved by one universal solution. A meta-analysis by the University of Basel shows that the current focus on no-till farming does not achieve the desired results. A...
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12 Oct 2021
Food Technology Manufacturing
Food fraud detection: a low-cost approach
...2021 Food fraud can cause billions of dollars in economic damage every year. Now botanists at the University of Basel have developed a model that can be used to determine the origin of food in a low-cost manner....
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11 Oct 2021
archdaily.com
Biozentrum Research Building University of Basel / Ilg Santer Architekten
Biozentrum Research Building University of Basel / Ilg Santer Architekten © Daisuke Hirabayashi xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? Share https://www.archdaily.com/969945/biozentrum-research-building-...
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11 Oct 2021
myScience Schweiz
An efficient and low-cost approach to detecting food fraud
...of geographical origin, cause billions of dollars in economic damage every year. Botanists at the University of Basel have now developed a model that can be used to determine the origin of food in an efficient...
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08 Oct 2021
WebMD
Scared of Spiders? There’s an App for That
...because they can't bring themselves to voluntarily seek out contact with spiders. Scientists at the University of Basel in Switzerland developed Phobys with this in mind. The app offers people with arachnophobia...
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08 Oct 2021
myScience International
Financial rewards lead to higher vaccination uptake
...Incentives Increase COVID-19 Vaccinations Science (2021), abm0475 Dr. Armando N. Meier, University of Basel/University of Lausanne, Unisanté, tel. +41 79 368 53 46 , email: armando.meier@unibas.ch Dr. Florian...
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06 Oct 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Will we ever know the truth about the origin of the coronavirus?
...from around the world – including Richard Neher, a professor and expert on virus evolution at the University of Basel – called for the investigation to continue in a more objective and transparent manner in...
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05 Oct 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
NoWhiteSaviors: Is ‘white aid’ colonialist?
...development cooperation is structured,” says Elisio Macamo, Professor for Sociology and African Studies at Basel University. Colonial structures are still present in developing countries. For instance, aid flows...
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02 Oct 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Nano Ex Machina
...realistic is the story you just read? An expert from the Swiss nanoscience institute SNI at the University of Basel explains why nanoparticles will never take over the human mind, yet they will be essential...
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30 Sep 2021
Scientific American
Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat Physical Pain?
...had a role in this effect. Two of the scientists who conducted this study, Matthias Liechti of the University of Basel and Kim Kuypers of Maastricht University, are currently working with MindMed on its LSD...
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29 Sep 2021
ScienceDaily
How mercury gets into the sea
...industry enters the sea and from there makes its way into the food chain. Now, an analysis by the University of Basel has revealed how the harmful substance enters seawater in the first place. This is not...
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28 Sep 2021
archinect.com
The New Research Building Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland
MADE-TO-MEASURE – THE NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART RESEARCH BUILDING BIOZENTRUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BASEL. The University of Basel's Biozentrum is one of the world's leading institutes for basic molecular and...
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27 Sep 2021
Mental Floss
Terrified of Spiders? This New AR App Can Help With Your Arachnophobia
...across their hand. The app's effectiveness is backed by science. A group of researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland developed Phobys and tested it on 66 people over the course of two weeks....
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27 Sep 2021
cointelegraph.com
Crypto baffles mainstream media, but should blockchain advocates care?
...of crypto assets in MSM,” Fabian Schär, professor in the business and economics department at the University of Basel, told Cointelegraph. The media’s focus seems to be cyclical, and it may be correlated with...
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27 Sep 2021
The New York Times
It Could Have Been a Fresh Start. But Germany Is Stuck.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 16 years in charge of Germany are coming to a close. Just not quite yet.
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22 Sep 2021
The New York Times
Art Basel’s Other Exhibition Hall Is a City
...Sze’s first major outdoor video work, will transform the facade of a building that is part of the University of Basel, and it will examine how, like nature, digital images have unpredictable lives of their...
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21 Sep 2021
fastcompany.com
Anxiety researchers have a high-tech way to help you conquer your fear of spiders
...conquering it has to be. In fact, it can now be totally virtual: Anxiety researchers from Switzerland’s University of Basel have developed an augmented reality-based smartphone app designed to help patients beat...
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21 Sep 2021
PC Magazine
Overcome Arachnophobia Using Augmented Reality Spiders
...evolutionary reason to feel uncomfortable around or afraid of the minibeasts, according to the team at the University of Basel; some individuals' fear develops through trauma or learned behavior. But people rarely...
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21 Sep 2021
Daily Mail
A cure for arachnophobia? Scientists create an augmented reality app that places a virtual 3D spider on your HAND - and say it reduces fear of arachnids in real life
...3D spider on your hand as a cure for arachnophobia. Called Phobys, the free app, created at the University of Basel in Switzerland, is available in both Apple's App Store and Google Play for Android. It...
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21 Sep 2021
CNET
Scientists help battle arachnophobia with augmented reality spiders
...Practice hanging out with spiders without actually hanging out with spiders with the Phobys app. University of Basel, MCN As a child and young adult, I was afraid of spiders. Jump-out-of-my-skin, flee-to-the-other-room...
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17 Sep 2021
The Economist
Curiouser and curiouser Adventures in DeFi-land
...arbitrage opportunities between token-trading platforms. Since their creation, says Fabian Schär of the University of Basel, the markets for most tokens have become more efficient. Two of the biggest lending protocols...
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16 Sep 2021
medicalxpress.com
Improving leukemia therapy with targeted treatment approaches
by University of Basel Bone marrow aspirate showing acute myeloid leukemia. Several blasts have Auer rods. Credit: Wikipedia In chronic leukemias, blocking the overactive kinase JAK2 by a targeted...
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03 Sep 2021
phys.org
Highly dynamic sex chromosomes in cichlid fishes
...externally, as here in Cyathopharynx foae (female left, male right). Credit: Adrian Indermaur/Zoology/University of Basel The cichlids of Lake Tanganyika in Africa are highly diverse—including with regard to...
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02 Sep 2021
The Hill
In a breakthrough cartilage from nose is used to treat severe knee problems
...published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the Department of Biomedicine of the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel are taking cartilage cells from the nasal septum in...
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01 Sep 2021
NewScientist
Cartilage from the nose used to treat two people's knee osteoarthritis
By Alice Klein Damaged cartilage in the knee has been treated with cells taken from the septum University of Basel, Christian Flierl Implants made from nose cartilage have been used to repair the knee...
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01 Sep 2021
STAT News
Scientists engineer nasal cartilage cells to repair aching knees
... A possible solution might be found in a person’s nose. Ivan Martin, head of biomedicine at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel, and colleagues led a study published Wednesday in Science...
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26 Aug 2021
Daily Express
EU threaten to be 'nastier' to Switzerland as country fumes at Brussels
...Laurent Goetschel, director of the think tank Swisspeace and professor of political science at the University of Basel offered his analysis on the talks. He told Euronews: "The Swiss would want to be part...
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25 Aug 2021
News Medical
Viral clearance accompanied by persistent footprints
Viruses do not always kill the cells they infect. Researchers at the University of Basel have discovered in experiments with mice that cells have the power to self-heal and eliminate viruses. However, these...
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23 Aug 2021
allafrica.com
Southern Africa: Rwanda's Military Intervention in Mozambique Raises Eyebrows
...between Mozambique, France, and Rwanda," says Elisio Macamo, an expert of African politics at the University of Basel. For France, moving the biggest gas project in Africa forward is vital, and Paris was even...
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17 Aug 2021
Healthcare Packaging
New Breath Test Determines Epilepsy Drug Regimen
...drug treatment approach for each patient. The test was developed by researchers at Switzerland’s University of Basel, and it helps outline metabolic hallmarks to help clinicians determine the efficacy of...
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12 Aug 2021
Materials Today
Manganese complexes offer cheap alternative to noble metals
...structures of the novel luminescent manganese complexes. Image: Jakob Bilger. Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have reached an important milestone in their quest to produce more sustainable...
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12 Aug 2021
jordantimes.com
Germany's homegrown Q menace
...study of the Querdenker movement, conducted by the sociologist Oliver Nachtwey and his team at the University of Basel, suggests otherwise. The study covered pandemic-related protests in Germany, Austria and...
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05 Aug 2021
nzz.ch
A tweet cost him his doctorate: The extent of China’s influence on Swiss universities
...only one such institute left in Switzerland, at the University of Geneva. A second was based at the University of Basel, but this was closed last autumn. In the United States too, a quarter of the country’s...
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16 Jul 2021
archyworldys.com
“The virus will continue to develop”: Virologists assume further corona variants – knowledge
...unsere App, die Sie hier für Apple- und Android-Geräte herunterladen können.] Richard Neher from the University of Basel is also certain: “The virus will continue to develop, as we know it from other human coronaviruses...
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13 Jul 2021
scientificinquirer.com
Ultrathin semiconductors electrically connected to superconductors for the first time.
For the first time, University of Basel researchers have equipped an ultrathin semiconductor with superconducting contacts. These extremely thin materials with novel electronic and optical properties could...
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12 Jul 2021
Materials Today
Graphene put on the rack to change electronic properties
...rack to stretch a layer of graphene in a controlled manner. Photo: Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel. The electronic properties of graphene can be specifically modified by stretching the...
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06 Jul 2021
phys.org
Ultrathin semiconductors are electrically connected to superconductors for the first time
by Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel The monolayer of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is sandwiched between two protective layers of boron nitride (hBN), with molybdenum rhenium (MoRe) contacts...
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06 Jul 2021
Daily Mail
Batavia Biosciences works with Swiss start-up on COVID-19 vaccine
...funding for its RocketVax subsidiary to help develop its vaccine candidate in cooperation with Basel University Hospital, the University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, the company...
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05 Jul 2021
The Times (ZA)
INVESTIGATION | ANC funder-turned-MP and her ‘links’ to shadowy Chinese agency
...adding that her dream was to change SA’s fortunes. Chinese politics expert Prof Ralph Weber, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, told Sunday Times Daily: “The United Front is an important piece in the...
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05 Jul 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Young smokers not deterred by ban on cigarette sales
...place in Switzerland over the past 15 years. However, bans do not make smoking more attractive, a Basel University statement said on Monday. Respondents in the study said smokers are not considered “cooler”...
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02 Jul 2021
Semiconductor Digest
Stretching Changes the Electronic Properties of Graphene
...graphene can be specifically modified by stretching the material evenly, say researchers at the University of Basel. These results open the door to the development of new types of electronic components....
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02 Jul 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
What if your future surgeon were a robot?
...Werner Siemens-Foundation, is being carried out by the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel. Werner Siemens‐Stiftung, Frank Brüderli. Switzerland, the Silicon Valley of robotics...
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30 Jun 2021
doctorslounge.com
Nonpharmacologic Interventions Effective for Pediatric Migraine
...migraine, according to a review recently published in Pediatrics. Helen Koechlin, Ph.D., from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues conducted a systematic review and network meta-analysis...
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29 Jun 2021
Daily Mail
Can staying up all night beat your insomnia?
...depression, but no,' says Professor Anna Wirz-Justice, from the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who has been treating patients with the therapy for 40 years. 'But it...
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28 Jun 2021
ScienceDaily
Unusual prey: Spiders eating snakes
...expand their menu by catching and eating small snakes. Dr. Martin Nyffeler, arachnologist at the University of Basel, and American herpetologist Professor Whitfield Gibbons of the University of Georgia, USA,...
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27 Jun 2021
syfy.com
Spiders that eat snakes up to hundreds of times their size are the real-life Spider-Man vs. the Lizard
...the eight-legged predators from catching one when they can, as biologist Martin Nyffeler of the University of Basel in Switzerland found out. “The use of vertebrates as a supplementary food source by spiders...
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26 Jun 2021
Daily Mail
Fang you very much! Widow spiders are eating snakes all over the planet, shocking study says
...scientific research, news reports and even social media, Martin Nyffeler, a spider expert at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and University of Georgia herpetologist J. Whitfield Gibbons found more...
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24 Jun 2021
Treehugger
When Spiders Hunt Snakes for Dinner
...Arachnology. Study co-author Martin Nyffeller is a spider expert and conservation biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He was searching journals for information on spider prey data with a focus...
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23 Jun 2021
Men's Journal
Is Coffee Shrinking Your Brain? Here’s Where to Cut Yourself Off
...alertness, so it sounds paradoxical that coffee could also…shrink your brain? Scientists at the University of Basel took stock of the gray matter in people’s brains after 10 days of daily caffeine consumption...
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23 Jun 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Swiss culture sector far from a haven of equality
...on Wednesday by Pro Helvetia. The study was carried out by the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Basel, after being commissioned by Pro Helvetia and the Swiss Centre for Social Research. The...
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22 Jun 2021
The Tribune
Butterflies at risk from excess nitrogen: Study
...soil via the air and impacts vegetation- to the detriment of the butterflies, as researchers at the University of Basel have discovered. In the journal Conservation Biology, the research team reports a connection...
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21 Jun 2021
Physicsworld.com
Solving the proton puzzle
...knowledgeable researchers” to extract a value from the scattering data. These were Ingo Sick from the University of Basel in Switzerland teaming up with John Arrington of the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois,...
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17 Jun 2021
Russia Today
Swiss scientists discover two new cell types in mouse brains, giving insight on brain repair mechanisms
...abilities, potentially applicable to humans too. The findings of the study, led by researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland, were published in the Science journal earlier this month. The two cells...
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17 Jun 2021
techexplorist.com
Immune cell activation: Scientists deciphered the details of it
...the respiratory complications of COVID-19. Stephan Grzesiek, a professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, said, “Research on CCR5 began almost 25 years ago as part of the fight against AIDS. It...
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16 Jun 2021
Daily Mail
Mysterious 3,200-year-old stone carvings in Turkey finally revealed as ancient Hittite calendar and map of the cosmos
...Zangger says. Zangger, president of the Luwian Studies Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland, worked with University of Basel archaeologist Rita Gautschy to analyze the layout and composition of the figures. They...
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16 Jun 2021
Nasdaq
Swiss National Bank must increase payouts - economists say
...portfolio...but the SNB is accumulating provisions which it doesn't use," said Yvan Lengwiler of the University of Basel, a former economic advisor to the SNB. "There should be a mechanism for all the profits...
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14 Jun 2021
ScienceDaily
New glial cells discovered in the brain: Implications for brain repair
...However, a key role for glia, long considered support cells, is emerging. A research group at the University of Basel has now discovered two new types of glial cells in the brain, by unleashing adult stem...
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11 Jun 2021
medicalxpress.com
Two new types of glial cells found in mouse brain
...Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers with members from the University of Basel, Columbia University, New York University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, has...
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10 Jun 2021
The Scientist
Scientists Discover “Gorditas” and Other Novel Brain Cell Types
...surface of the ventricle wall, nestled among cilia (red). ANA DELGADO AND FIONA DOETSCH, BIOZENTRUM, UNIVERSITY OF BASEL Scientists have discovered two types of glial cells in the brains of adult mice—an astrocyte...
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08 Jun 2021
Forbes Magazine
Restoring Vision To The Blind. Regenerative Medicine Offers New Hope For Retinitis Pigmentosa
...readings. The results were described as "remarkable." “I think that a new field is being born,” University of Basel professor and researcher Botond Roska told reporters during a recent conference call announcing...
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07 Jun 2021
nature
Spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020
...These authors contributed equally: Tanja Stadler, Richard A. Neher Affiliations Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Emma B. Hodcroft, Moira Zuber & Richard A. Neher Swiss Institute...
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04 Jun 2021
Inside Higher Education
New Definition of Scientific Misconduct
...or PubPeer -- had become a part of scientific life, said Constable, a chemistry professor at the University of Basel. The new code “significantly” expanded the definition of misconduct “by including questionable...
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04 Jun 2021
The Lancet
Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion and hypothalamic hypocortisolism in neuromyelitis optica
...Departments of Medicine, Clinical Research and Biomedical Engineering, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Switzerland Search for articles by this author Silke Schäfer, MD Silke Schäfer ...
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03 Jun 2021
Technology Networks
Understanding How Cancer Spreads
...explains Prof. Dr. Mohamed Bentires-Alj, research group leader at the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel. Understanding the mechanisms behind the dormant state...
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03 Jun 2021
thelocal.ch
How did Switzerland get so wealthy?
...“A lot of business books refer to Switzerland as ‘wonderland’. And that’s the core of it”, said Ueli Mäder, a sociology professor at the University of Basel in an interview with The Local....
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27 May 2021
International Business Times Australien
Scientists Partially Restore Vision Of Blind Man With Gene Therapy
...served as the patient's rods and cones, according to Botond Roska, a biomedical researcher at the University of Basel and author of the new study. Without the goggles, the patient is completely blind. After...
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26 May 2021
archyworldys.com
Basel area pays less to Uni Basel
The University of Basel will receive around 1.355 billion Swiss francs as a global amount from the two sponsoring cantons of Basel-Stadt and Baselland for the years 2022 to 2025. With the new university...
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25 May 2021
New York Post
Blind man’s vision partially restored after algae gene therapy: study
...therapy to partially restore vision is possible,” said Botond Roska, professor and researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland, in an international press release. Their case study involved an unnamed...
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25 May 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Gene therapy trial partially restores eyesight
...the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), which is affiliated with the University of Basel. Cells in the man’s retina were programmed to produce a protein called ChrimsonR, which...
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25 May 2021
Boston Globe
Scientists partially restored a blind man’s sight with new gene therapy
...recognize objects. “The brain has to learn a new language,” said Botond Roska, an ophthalmologist at the University of Basel and a co-author of the new study. It will take many more positive results from clinical...
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24 May 2021
msn.co.nz
Algae proteins partially restore man's sight
...difference between no vision and even limited vision can be life-changing. Prof Botond Roska, from the University of Basel, said: "The findings provide proof-of-concept that using optogenetic therapy to partially...
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24 May 2021
The Wall Street Journal
Gene Therapy, High-Tech Goggles Restore Some Vision to Blind People
...eyesight—they can’t read, drive or recognize faces. “It is not normal vision,” said Dr. Botond Roska of the University of Basel and the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, an expert in the study...
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24 May 2021
headtopics.com (UK)
Neuroscience, Blindness And Visual İmpairment Blind man has sight partly restored after pioneering treatment
...[being] born here, namely visual rehabilitation,” said the study co-leader Prof Botond Roska at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “What these ganglion cells are telling the brain is not the normal activity...
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24 May 2021
WELT
Blinder Mann kann dank Gentherapie wieder sehen
...um José-Alain Sahel von der University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine und Botond Roska von der Universität Basel im Fachblatt „Nature Medicine“ schreibt. Experten bewerten die Studie einhellig als Durchbruch....
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21 May 2021
ScienceDaily
Swiss farmers contributed to the domestication of the opium poppy
...underground garage now stands. Through a new analysis of archaeological seeds, researchers at the University of Basel have been able to bolster the hypothesis that prehistoric farmers throughout the Alps participated...
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21 May 2021
The Irish Times
Life expectancy and alcohol
...grey matter was researched by a team led by Dr Carolin Reichert and Prof Christian Cajochen of the University of Basel. Their study was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the findings were...
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18 May 2021
archyworldys.com
Anti-Israel demos: historian warns against simplifications
...looks at the current development with concern. The Historian at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Basel, criticized the calls for demos that circulated on the Internet last week. As he emphasizes,...
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16 May 2021
New York Jewish Press
Ukraine PM Honors Ukrainians Who Saved Jews during the Holocaust
...Unum, Chief Strategist and Head of the Academic Council at BYHMC) and Manuel Herz (Professor at the University of Basel, designer of the symbolic synagogue at Babyn Yar). The symbolic synagogue, which was opened...
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10 May 2021
MarketWatch
Ethereum price surges above $4,000. Just what is this cryptocurrency?
...infrastructure,” wrote Fabian Schär, a professor for distributed ledger technologies and fintech at the University of Basel and the managing director of the Center for Innovative Finance. “It is little wonder why...
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06 May 2021
menafn.com
Survey highlights staff shortages in Swiss nursing homes
...Fewer than half of the 4,400 respondents said their care units were fully staffed, according to a research projectExternal link published by the University of Basel on Wednesday. This compares with 58% in a 2013 poll....
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03 May 2021
azocleantech.com
Lakes Could be ‘Tapped’ for an Environmentally Friendly Biofuel
...environmentally gentle fuel could emerge from an unlikely source. A team of environmental scientists from the University of Basel, Switzerland, suggest that methane stored in lakes could be tapped, converted to methanol,...
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29 Apr 2021
healthcare-in-europe.com (en.)
Reversing blindness: Award for cone optogenetics gene therapy
...and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, and Head of the University Hospital’s Eye Clinic in Basel, Switzerland. “We are delighted...
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29 Apr 2021
LifeScientist
Novel antibiotic tricks bacteria through mimicry
...by exploiting a tiny weak spot on their surface. An international team of researchers, led by the University of Basel, has now revealed the amazing mechanism at play here and thereby opened the door to developing...
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28 Apr 2021
The New York Times
German Intelligence Puts Coronavirus Deniers Under Surveillance
Mr. Nachtwey said he understood the federal authorities’ rationale in keeping tabs on the movement, but he wondered if putting it under surveillance would not worsen matters. “The decision might lead to hardening of the position or even further radicalization.”
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27 Apr 2021
dw.com (en.)
Vaccines appear effective against India COVID variant
...the head of a research group into the evolution of viruses and bacteria at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. Neher said less was known about some variants with notable mutations. "In that respect,...
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20 Apr 2021
Science Times
Study Seeks to Track Changes in Microbial Diversity, Indicates Difficulties
...this decline, and in which direction? According to a paper written by Dr. David S. Thaler of the University of Basel in Switzerland, "Is Global Microbial Biodiversity Increasing, Decreasing, or Staying the...
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19 Apr 2021
Guardian
Microbes are ‘unknown unknowns’ despite being vital to all life, says study
...microbial diversity is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same,” said David Thaler, a biologist at Basel University and author of the paper. “Most scientific papers tell us new facts. This is a different...
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18 Apr 2021
ScienceDaily
Alpine plants are losing their white 'protective coat' too early in spring
...meters could disappear a month earlier than today, as simulations by environmental scientists at the University of Basel demonstrate. advertisement Global warming demands huge adjustments in tourism, hydropower...
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13 Apr 2021
coindesk.com
DeFi Is Transparent, Unless You Look Closely
...the risks. Fabian Schär is a professor for distributed ledger technologies and fintech at the University of Basel and the managing director of the Center for Innovative Finance at the Faculty of Business...
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08 Apr 2021
world-today-news.com
Coronavirus pandemic – One in ten people believe in a conspiracy theory
...according to a survey of researchers from Basel. Sarah Kuhn and Thea Zander-Schellenberg’s team at the University of Basel conducted an anonymized online survey of 1,600 people in German-speaking Switzerland and...
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04 Apr 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Study points to lake methane as energy source of the future
...naturally in lakes. This “would in theory be enough to cover the entire world’s energy needs”, said University of Basel scientist Maciej Bartosiewicz. Bartosiewicz, along with Przemyslaw Rzepka and Moritz Lehmann,...
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03 Apr 2021
dw.com (bg.)
Meet Germany's 'Querdenker' COVID protest movement
...assessment fits in with the results of a study published in December 2020 by sociologists at the University of Basel, Oliver Nachtwey. He and his team asked more than 1,100 "Querdenker" about their motives...
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02 Apr 2021
chemeurope.com
Carbon-neutral “biofuel” from lakes
Lakes store huge amounts of methane. In a new study, environmental scientists at the University of Basel offer suggestions for how it can be extracted and used as an energy source in the form of methanol....
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31 Mar 2021
phys.org
Carbon-neutral biofuel from lakes: Suggestions for extraction of methane for energy
by Lakes store huge amounts of methane. In a new study, environmental scientists at the University of Basel offer suggestions for how it can be extracted and used as an energy source in the form of methanol....
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30 Mar 2021
Mental Floss
At Wine Tastings, the Cheap Stuff Tastes Better If You Think It's Expensive
...it tastes. In a study published in the journal Food Quality and Preference, researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland set out to examine how price affects the subjective impression of a wine’s...
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30 Mar 2021
Consumer Affairs
Varying your physical activities can lead to better mental health outcomes, study finds
...importance of following an exercise regimen during COVID-19-related lockdowns. Now, researchers from the University of Basel have found that physical activity is crucial for mental health; however, they say incorporating...
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30 Mar 2021
McKnights Long Term Care News
‘Pain champions’ in nursing homes spur adoption of pain guidelines: study
...in care workers’ self‐efficacy at both time points, reported Franziska Zúñiga Ph.D., RN, of the University of Basel in Switzerland. This result also may have accounted for the workers’ better performance...
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29 Mar 2021
Associated Press
Swiss banker to Venezuelan kleptocrats becomes star witness
...Venezuela, all sorts of alarm bells should’ve gone off,” said Pieth, who recently retired from the University of Basel law school. Pieth said he is surprised more Swiss financial institutions and their senior...
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24 Mar 2021
Daily Mail
Why your workout regime should be based on your blood pressure
...based on the individual blood pressure level'. Lead author Professor Henner Hanssen of Switzerland's Basel University said: 'In people with hypertension, the blood pressure reduction that can be achieved with...
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17 Mar 2021
Monthly Prescribing Reference
Immediate Start of ART for HIV May Impact 10-Year Risk for Cancer
...published online March 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Frédérique Chammartin, PhD, from the University of Basel in Switzerland, and colleagues estimated the long-term risk difference for cancer with...
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17 Mar 2021
Clinical Neurology News
Many nonpharmacological options to treat pediatric migraine
...senior study author Cosima Locher of the division of clinical psychology and psychotherapy at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, said by email. Short term, biofeedback was the second most effective...
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15 Mar 2021
ScienceDaily
New class of substances for redox reactions
...the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba (Japan) and Professor Thomas Jung from the University of Basel and the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland) have now shown experimentally for the first...
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15 Mar 2021
dnyuz.com
China gets German children’s book about COVID withdrawn
...good stories about China,” says Ralph Weber, associate professor for European Global Studies at the University of Basel and an expert of Chinese relations. German children’s book links virus to China And...
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14 Mar 2021
cointelegraph.com
The superheated NFTs? A crypto market niche tipped to boom or bust
...an exciting innovation,” Fabian Schär, professor in the business and economics department at the University of Basel, told Cointelegraph, “but that does not mean that every doodle suddenly is valuable just...
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14 Mar 2021
Nasdaq
Will Stellar Lumens Finally Democratize Investing?
...interoperable protocol stack built on public smart contract platforms, such as the Ethereum blockchain,” University of Basel finance professor Fabian Schär wrote in a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of...
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12 Mar 2021
foodandwine.com
Friends Will Enjoy Your Cheap Wine More If You Lie About the Price, Study Suggests
...hopefully offering more lifelike insights than previous lab studies. During this tasting, held at the University of Basel in Switzerland, 140 blind tasters were given three Italian wines billed as either "low-,...
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11 Mar 2021
Science.org
Europe moves to exclude neighbors from its quantum and space research
...available silicon. The project includes U.K. and Swiss researchers at University College London and the University of Basel. “They are in there for a good reason,” Vandersypen says. “They bring in really valuable...
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11 Mar 2021
The Martha Stewart Show
Consumers Think Inexpensive Wine Tastes Better When Told It's More Expensive, a New Study Says
...how we perceive the quality of a certain wine. According to a new study conducted by researchers at Basel University in Switzerland, consumers were more likely to favor a cheap red wine if they were lied...
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11 Mar 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Veiled in history: how women have been covered up
...exhibition in Vienna, Susanna Burghartz, professor of Renaissance and Early Modern History at the University of Basel, had already approached the subject through a cultural-historical perspective, resulting...
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10 Mar 2021
medicalxpress.com
How a receptor shapes the immune response
by University of Basel Researchers led by Professor Carolyn King of the University of Basel have developed a method to study the specialization of T cells in the context of infections. In the journal...
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09 Mar 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Switzerland still popular with overseas students despite Covid
...There were 164 students from 57 other countries as well. At other Swiss universities, like the University of Basel, there’s been a small drop in overseas students at Bachelors. “For overseas undergraduate...
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08 Mar 2021
Berner Zeitung
Der Mann hinter dem Burkaverbot – Er hat mehr Volksinitiativen gewonnen als die SP
...Strafrechtsbestimmung auf Bundesebene umzusetzen, sagt Markus Schefer, Staatsrechtsprofessor an der Universität Basel. Allerdings sollte der Bund mit dem Strafrecht nicht leichtfertig die föderalistische Kompetenzordnung...
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08 Mar 2021
bloombergquint.com
SNB Breathes Again as Franc Drop Rebuts Criticism on Two Fronts
...a former Irish central bank official, who is now at EFG International AG, Yvan Lengwiler of the University of Basel, and Charles Wyplosz of Geneva’s Graduate Institute to call for the SNB to revise their...
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05 Mar 2021
ScienceDaily
Tackling tumors with two types of virus
An international research group led by the University of Basel has developed a promising strategy for therapeutic cancer vaccines. Using two different viruses as vehicles, they administered specific tumor...
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05 Mar 2021
pharmaboardroom.com
ISREC’s Susan Gasser: A “Hard-Nosed” Approach to Research Quality & Excellence Save
...studies in Biophysics at the University of Chicago and completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Basel. As a globally renowned biologist and epigeneticist, her research focuses on the spatial...
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05 Mar 2021
bionity.com (eng.)
Tackling tumors with two types of virus
...the tumor efficiently (symbolic image). Zoom in An international research group led by the University of Basel has developed a promising strategy for therapeutic cancer vaccines. Using two different...
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03 Mar 2021
medicalxpress.com
Tackling tumors with two types of virus
by University of Basel Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An international research group led by the University of Basel has developed a promising strategy for therapeutic cancer vaccines. Using two...
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01 Mar 2021
pharmaboardroom.com
Funding the Cell & Gene Therapy Boom Save
...Chairman of the insurer, Helsana and director of the European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine at the University of Basel. He does wonder, however, whether such a provision model would still prove sustainable...
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01 Mar 2021
Materials Today
Antiferromagnetic materials enter a new domain
...structuring the surface, forming the basis for a new data storage concept. Image: Department of Physics, University of Basel. Using nanoscale quantum sensors, an international research team has succeeded in exploring...
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23 Feb 2021
Materials Today
Kagome graphene reveals exciting properties
...semiconductor and may also have unusual electrical properties. Image: R. Pawlak, Department of Physics, University of Basel. Researchers around the world are searching for new synthetic materials with special...
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23 Feb 2021
ScienceDaily
Concept for a new storage medium
Date: February 22, 2021 Source: Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel Summary: Physicists have proposed an innovative new data storage medium. The technique is based on specific properties of...
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22 Feb 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
How the US could influence Swiss policy in the Middle East
...to a negotiated outcome was also sidelined, said Goetschel, who teaches political science at the University of Basel. Trump’s first year in office coincided with the arrival of Cassis at the helm of the...
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18 Feb 2021
Daily Mail
Drinking coffee can change the structure of your BRAIN: Regular caffeine consumption reduces the volume of grey matter - but 10 days without lattes reverses the effect
University of Basel researchers investigated caffeine's impact on grey matter Grey matter volume was reduced after 10 days of 450 mg daily caffeine intake Caffeine is the world’s most widely consumed...
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18 Feb 2021
chemeurope.com
Kagome graphene promises exciting properties
R. Pawlak, Department of Physics, University of Basel Kagome graphene is characterized by a regular lattice of hexagons and triangles. It behaves as a semiconductor and may also have unusual electrical...
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17 Feb 2021
bloombergquint.com
Swiss Central Bank Urged to Lift Inflation Goal, Manage Currency
...former deputy governor of the Irish central bank now at EFG International AG, Yvan Lengwiler of the University of Basel and Charles Wyplosz, honorary professor at Geneva’s Graduate Institute addressed the issue...
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17 Feb 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Swiss Central Bank Urged to Lift Inflation Goal, Manage Currency
...former deputy governor of the Irish central bank now at EFG International AG, Yvan Lengwiler of the University of Basel and Charles Wyplosz, honorary professor at Geneva’s Graduate Institute addressed the issue...
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17 Feb 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
How Covid-19 hits youngsters hard in Switzerland
...anxious about their futures, appear to have been especially affected by stress during this period A University of Basel studyExternal link looking into psychological stress among the Swiss population during...
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16 Feb 2021
ScienceDaily
Kagome graphene promises exciting properties
Date: February 16, 2021 Source: Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel Summary: For the first time, physicists have produced a graphene compound consisting of carbon atoms and a small number of...
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15 Feb 2021
phys.org
Kagome graphene promises exciting properties
by Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel Kagome graphene is characterized by a regular lattice of hexagons and triangles. It behaves as a semiconductor and may also have unusual electrical...
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13 Feb 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Digitising clinical data: an uphill road for Switzerland
...in a structured way,” the professor says. Torsten Schwede is vice president for research at the University of Basel and head of a research group at the SIB Swiss Bioinformatics Institute. He explains that...
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11 Feb 2021
ScienceDaily
Virtual reality helping to treat fear of heights
Date: February 10, 2021 Source: University of Basel Summary: Researchers have developed a virtual reality app for smartphones to reduce fear of heights. Now, they have conducted a clinical trial to study...
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11 Feb 2021
Daily Mail
Is this the solution to over-crowding in tourist hotspots?
Tourist attractions should be digitally recreated says a University of Basel expert Holograms and augmented reality (AR) could make them better than the original Copies of Oxford, Cambridge and Stratford-upon-Avon...
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10 Feb 2021
neurosciencenews.com
Virtual Reality Helping to Treat Fear of Heights
...fear of heights report a significant reduction of their fears in real-life situations. Source: University of Basel Researchers from the University of Basel have developed a virtual reality app for smartphones...
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09 Feb 2021
cryptonews.com
Fed-Published DeFi Study By a European Professor Boosts Industry Morale
...Director of the Center for Innovative Finance at the Faculty of Business and Economics of Switzerland’s University of Basel. “DeFi still is a niche market with relatively low volumes — however, these numbers are...
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07 Feb 2021
The New York Times
How to Recognize and Address Seasonal Depression
...outside. According to Anna Wirz-Justice, professor emeritus in the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, natural light isn’t only cheaper than a light box, it’s also brighter....
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05 Feb 2021
The New Stack
Quantum ‘Switchable’ Qubit Quickly Flips Between Storage and Fast Calculation Modes
...quantum devices will have to be extended beyond what they currently are now. Researchers from the University of Basel and TU Eindhoven have now added yet another piece to the developing quantum puzzle: a new...
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29 Jan 2021
opli.net
Physicists develop record-breaking source for single photons
28 January 2021 Researchers at the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have developed a source of single photons that can produce billions of these quantum particles per second. With its record-breaking...
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27 Jan 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Switzerland's irresponsible reign on the sea
...published on January 27, 2021 - 12:00 January 27, 2021 - 12:00 Mark Pieth, Criminal Law Professor, University of Basel Though Switzerland is a landlocked country, it is the seat of some of the most prominent...
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26 Jan 2021
ScienceDaily
Climate change in antiquity: Mass emigration due to water scarcity
Date: January 25, 2021 Source: University of Basel Summary: The absence of monsoon rains at the source of the Nile was the cause of migrations and the demise of entire settlements in the late Roman province...
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25 Jan 2021
enn.com
Climate Change in Antiquity: Mass Emigration Due to Water Scarcity
...with environmental data for the first time by professor of ancient history, Sabine Huebner of the University of Basel – leading to a discovery of climate change and its consequences. The oasis-like Faiyum...
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25 Jan 2021
BBC
Why winter seems filled with romance
...bright sunlight. Though Christine Blume and her co-authors from the Centre of Chronobiology at the University of Basel point out that using artifical lights with cool wavelengths of light in the morning and...
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22 Jan 2021
SELF
Coronavirus Variants: How Much Do You Need to Worry?
...variants? For some insight, SELF checked in with Emma Hodcroft, Ph.D., a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, and Joseph Osmundson, Ph.D., a clinical assistant professor of biology...
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21 Jan 2021
SWR2
Coronavirus-Mutationen – Was man bisher darüber weiß
...vergangenen Jahr mehrfach auf, verschwand dann aber wieder. Experten wie Richard Neher von der Universität Basel gehen davon aus, dass es erst die Kombination verschiedener Mutationen ist, die dem Virus...
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21 Jan 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
How vaccine technology, choice and supply work in Switzerland
..."I would say at this moment that every vaccine with relatively good efficacy - that means, at least 60 or 70% - should be put to use, when it has an appropriate safety profile,” said Thomas Klimkait, a University of Basel professor and researcher....
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20 Jan 2021
swissinfo (engl.)
Swiss multinationals draw blurry political lines in the sand
...A study by University of Basel professor Ralph Weber, further analysed by the business paper Handelszeitung, found that there are communist party cells External linkwith hundreds of members inside Chinese subsidiaries of Swiss companies. This puts Swiss companies ...
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15 Jan 2021
CTV
'Quarantine myopia': Study examines near-sightedness among children
...Klaver is a professor at the University of Basel as well as an ophthalmologist and researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, who penned an article in JAMA Ophthalmology to accompany the research....
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11 Jan 2021
ScienceDaily
Immune cells discovered in the lungs improve virus defense
A research team at the University of Basel has discovered immune cells resident in the lungs that persist long after a bout of flu. Experiments with mice have shown that these helper cells improve the immune...
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11 Jan 2021
ScienceDaily
Electrically switchable qubit can tune between storage and fast calculation modes
...The concept would also allow a large number of qubits to be combined into a powerful quantum computer, as researchers from the University of Basel and TU Eindhoven have reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology....
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08 Jan 2021
medicalxpress.com
Immune cells discovered in the lungs improve virus defense
...A research team at the University of Basel has discovered immune cells resident in the lungs that persist long after a bout of flu. Experiments with mice have shown that these helper cells improve the immune response to reinfection by a different strain of the flu...
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08 Jan 2021
bionity.com (eng.)
Neuronal circuits for fine motor skills: How the brain masters exquisite movements
...How the brain masters such exquisite movements has now been described in the journal “Nature” by a team of researchers at the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research. A map of brainstem circuits reveals which neurons contro...
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07 Jan 2021
ScienceDaily
How to mitigate the impact of a lockdown on mental health
...what helps and hinders people in getting through a lockdown? A new study led by researchers at the University of Basel addressed this question using data from 78 countries across the world. The results hint...
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06 Jan 2021
ScienceDaily
Neuronal circuits for fine motor skills
...exquisite movements has now been described in the journal "Nature" by a team of researchers at the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research. A map of brainstem circuits...
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04 Jan 2021
The Hindu
Can spiders weave webs without gravity?
...But when the lights went on they probably thought: ‘ah, there's the light. Well, this must be up. So act accordingly,’” explains lead author Samuel Zschokke From the University of Basel, Switzerland....
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31 Dec 2020
Reuters (IN)
Explainer: How does AstraZeneca's vaccine compare with Pfizer-BioNTech?
...don’t have vaccine in sufficient quantities to reach all those who need it,” said Thomas Klimkait, a University of Basel professor and researcher who is working on a Swiss SARS-CoV-2 vaccine project. “I would...
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29 Dec 2020
nzz.ch
«I am never not thinking about the pandemic,» says Emma Hodcroft. She tracks coronavirus mutations
...University of Edinburgh. In 2017 she joined the group of Richard Neher at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel where she helped develop Nextstrain, an open-source project tracking pathogen evolution....
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28 Dec 2020
Psychology Today
Is your spouse this selfish?
...In a recent study in Nature Scientific Reports from Andrew Gloster’s lab at the University of Basel, researchers investigated when people in committed relationships act in selfish or selfless ways. As it turns out, a small intervention of mere 15 minutes could lea...
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24 Dec 2020
varindia.com
Scientists warn of new variant Coronavirus coming soon
...said Emma Hodcroft, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Basel and lead author of the study which is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal....
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22 Dec 2020
marie claire (GB)
Single with benefits: the self-fulfilling power of not dating
...who work out for around four hours. Single people tend to have lower BMIs, too – research from the University of Basel in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany found that...
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20 Dec 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
China has too much influence over Switzerland, finds study
...Research from Basel University suggests that on various levels, the Chinese party-state has too much influence over Switzerland....
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20 Dec 2020
Forbes Magazine
The Science Behind London’s Christmas Lockdown
...occasions, including in South Africa, as explained by evolutionary virologist Emma Hodcroft from the University of Basel. ADVERTISEMENT The new lineage, including all 17 major mutations, has grown very rapidly...
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16 Dec 2020
Sound Health and Lasting Wealth
New Covid strain has 17 mutations, scientist say
...into other parts of the country.’ A history of the virus published online by the Neher Lab, at the University of Basel in Switzerland, shows how it has become more common over time. After the first official...
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15 Dec 2020
digitaljournal.com
Building photodetectors based on spider web spinning
...gravitational forces, however the role of photodetection should not be underestimated. In essence, University of Basel scientists state, the research showed how spiders use light as an additional orientation...
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15 Dec 2020
Daily Mail
Mutated form of Covid has been found in Wales, Scotland, Denmark and Australia
...A history of the virus published online by the Neher Lab, at the University of Basel in Switzerland, shows how it has become more common over time....
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14 Dec 2020
Daily Mail
International Spider Station? Arachnids in orbit work out how to weave webs in microgravity using LIGHT as a reference point
...'We wouldn't have guessed that light would play a role in orienting the spiders in space,' said paper author and biologist Samuel Zschokke, of the University of Basel....
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14 Dec 2020
Daily Express
Spiders in space use light to tell them which way is 'up' in ISS zero gravity study
...Dr Samuel Zschokke, a University of Basel conservation biologist said: ”Since in normal gravity, and no matter whether the lights were on or not, spiders consistently built asymmetric webs and consistently faced downwards when sitting on the hub, we conclude that ...
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10 Dec 2020
Futurism
Whose Brilliant Idea Was It to Bring Spiders to the Space Station?
...back-up system for orientation like this seems surprising,” study coauthor Samuel Zschokke from the University of Basel said in a press release, “since they have never been exposed to an environment without...
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10 Dec 2020
gizmodo.co.uk
Space Station Spiders Found a Hack to Build Webs Without Gravity
...study, led by Paula Cushing of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Samuel Zschokke from the University of Basel. G/O Media may get a commission Use the promo code Kinja2020 The chosen species for...
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09 Dec 2020
phys.org
Spiders in space: Without gravity, light becomes key to orientation
by University of Basel A specimen of the spider species Trichonephila clavipes on board the international space station (ISS). Credit: BioServe Space Technologies, University of Colorado Boulder Humans...
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08 Dec 2020
Medscape
Nighttime Airplane Noise Linked to Cardiovascular Death
..."The take-home messages of these findings are that adaptations and mitigations of nighttime noise are warranted," senior author Martin Röösli, PhD, professor of environmental epidemiology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Swi...
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07 Dec 2020
phys.org
Quick and sensitive identification of multidrug-resistant germs
by University of Basel Schematic illustration of the cantilever array to detect antibiotic resistance. Credit: Department of Physics and Nano Imaging Lab, SNI, University of Basel Researchers from...
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07 Dec 2020
bizcommunity.com
Social norms and poor services drive petty corruption in East Africa's health sector
...https://theconversation.com/africa About the author Saba Kassa, public governance specialist, Basel Institute, University of Basel; Claudia Baez Camargo, head of public governance, Basel Institute, University of Basel...
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04 Dec 2020
neurosciencenews.com
Molecular Mechanism of Long-Term Memory Discovered
...By studying roundworms (Caenorhabditis elegans), scientists at the Transfaculty Research Platform for Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences (MCN) at the University of Basel have now discovered a molecular mechanism of long-term memory that is also involved in memo...
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01 Dec 2020
scienmag.com
EMBO welcomes thirty Young Investigators
...Gothenburg Gothenburg, SE Camilo Perez Molecular mechanism of cell wall membrane proteins Biozentrum, University of Basel Basel, CH Christoph Zechner Signal processing and heterogeneity in biological systems...
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27 Nov 2020
Daily Mail
How Europe's Covid second wave started with Spanish migrant workers
...The new research - which has yet to be peer-reviewed - was carried out by scientists from the University of Basel, in Switzerland, and the University of Valencia....
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26 Nov 2020
startupticker.ch
Bottmedical obtains CE certificate for its NaturAligner
...medical device for dental alignment, and the flagship product of Bottmedical, a spin-off from the University of Basel. The device is now CE-certified which paves the way for the next steps starting with clinical...
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25 Nov 2020
drugs.com
Gut Immune Cells May Play Key Role in MS
...Study first author Dr. Anne-Katrin Probstel, of the University of Basel in Switzerland, said, "This opens up a whole new line of research. I think it has huge potential for therapeutics."...
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18 Nov 2020
ScienceDaily
Cichlid fishes from African Lake Tanganyika shed light on how organismal diversity arises
...cichlid fishes have evolved in this lake in less than 10 million years. A research team from the University of Basel has investigated this phenomenon of "explosive speciation" and provides new insights into...
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13 Nov 2020
phys.org
Novel quantum dots facilitate coupling to quantum memory systems
...Researchers at the University of Basel and Ruhr-Universität Bochum have realized quantum dots—tiny semiconductor nanostructures—that emit light close to the red part of the spectrum with ultra-low background noise. Quantum dots might one day constitute the basis f...
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11 Nov 2020
ScienceDaily
Yin and Yang: Two signaling molecules control growth and behavior in bacteria
...metabolic control they decide on the lifestyle of bacteria, as reported by researchers from the University of Basel. The new findings also play a role in the context of bacterial infections. advertisement...
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10 Nov 2020
Markets Insider
Swiss Rockets AG announces the founding of ROCKETVAX for the development of a next-generation SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
...Vladimir Cmiljanovic, Chairman and CEO of Swiss Rockets. Prof. Dr. Thomas Klimkait, Virologist at the University of Basel and Project Leader of Preclinical Development at RocketVax, explains: "As an innovative...
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09 Nov 2020
Reuters (USA)
Highlights: Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine news delivers hope around the globe
...MARCEL TANNER, PRESIDENT SWISS ACADEMIES OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, MEMBER OF THE SWISS NATIONAL COVID-19 SCIENCE TASK FORCE, PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MEDICAL PARASITOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BASEL...
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09 Nov 2020
phys.org
Yin and Yang: Two signaling molecules control growth and behavior in bacteria
...Two competing signaling molecules control Caulobacter lifestyle. Pink: Swarmer cell with high ppGpp level; blue: sessile form with high c-di-GMP level. Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum...
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08 Nov 2020
The New York Times
Covid Infections in Animals Prompt Scientific Concern
...So far, the mink in Denmark are the only known instance of the virus infecting an animal, mutating, and transferring back to humans. Emma Hodcroft of the University of Basel, Switzerland, traces various mutated versions of the...
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04 Nov 2020
The Verge
Denmark will cull entire mink population after COVID-19 outbreaks
...“Scientists will update when we have more info,” tweeted virologist Emma Hodcroft, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland....
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04 Nov 2020
The New York Times
Denmark Will Kill All Farmed Mink, Citing Coronavirus Infections
...On Twitter, Emma Hodcroft, a geneticist at the University of Basel, Switzerland, who is tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus, urged caution. “Don’t panic,” Dr. Hodcroft tweeted. “Scientists will update when we have more info.”...
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01 Nov 2020
MSN Money
Swiss Try Light Touch Virus Curbs in Effort to Keep Economy Open
...the Swiss to implement stricter measures earlier,” said Emma Hodcroft, an epidemiologist at the University of Basel. “What concerns me is that we’ve seen other countries taking lighter-touch approaches previously...
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31 Oct 2020
sky.com
Coronavirus: History repeating itself with second lockdown - but what will be done with it?
...Back in February, the biggest source of cases in the UK was not China but Spain. A study by the University of Basel recently concluded that 80% of the UK cases since the summer were brought by travellers...
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31 Oct 2020
telegraph.co.uk
Why Europe's efforts to stop a second wave of Covid were doomed to fail
...came from. That's the simplest explanation.” His theory is backed up by a study this week from the University of Basel, which found that a new genetic strain of coronavirus, first seen in Spanish farm workers,...
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30 Oct 2020
headtopics.com (UK)
Coronavirus, Spain Coronavirus strain from Spain accounts for most UK cases – study
...hospitals begin turning away women seeking abortions Dr Emma Hodcroft, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Basel and lead author of the study, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We know there was a...
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30 Oct 2020
Russia Today
90% of UK Covid cases came from Spanish strain, study shows
...spread of the disease, and resulting in cases soaring across the continent. Researchers at the University of Basel, at ETH Zürich in Basel, and in the SeqCOVID-Spain consortium analyzed the spread of coronavirus...
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30 Oct 2020
Independent.ie
Covid variant from Spain is behind most European cases
...Researchers involved in the study from the University of Basel, ETH Zürich in Basel and the SeqCOVID-Spain have found that the virus variant was identified in sequences in the east of Ireland, especially Dublin, as well as in areas across Leitrim, Sligo, Limerick ...
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30 Oct 2020
中国日报（英文）
Mutated virus linked to new case upsurge
...and up to 40 percent in Switzerland and France. Emma Hodcroft, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Basel and lead author of the study, told the Financial Times that the new research suggests improved...
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30 Oct 2020
MSN UK
University of Basel's Emma Hodcroft on New Coronavirus Variant
Oct.29 -- Emma Hodcroft, Molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel, discusses second wave of Covid-19 and a new coronavirus variant with Bloomberg's Guy Johnson.
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30 Oct 2020
BBC
The Strain in Spain
Adam and James are joined by Dr Emma Hodcroft from the University of Basel to discuss the new coronavirus strain which was discovered in Spain.
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29 Oct 2020
New York Post
Coronavirus mutation spread across Europe: report
...been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Dr. Emma Hodcroft, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Basel, said there is no evidence the mutation “increases transmission or impacts the clinical...
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29 Oct 2020
Daily Mail
Is mutated strain of Covid-19 to blame for Europe's second wave?
...travel restrictions and social distancing measures being loosened in summer. Dr Emma Hodcroft of the University of Basel and lead author of the study said: 'From the spread of 20A.EU1, it seems clear that the...
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29 Oct 2020
Yahoo.com
Coronavirus strain discovered in Europe accounts for '80 per cent of UK cases', study finds
...which is likely to be proportional to cases, Dr Emma Hodcroft, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Basel, said. The mutation will continue to be investigated, Dr Hodcroft said, but added the...
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29 Oct 2020
BitcoinEthereumnews.com
Coronavirus variant seen spreading across Europe, research says
...“continue to circulate across Europe.” The authors of the study comprised of researchers from the University of Basel, the Biomedicine Institute of Valencia, and the University of Valencia, among others. ...
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29 Oct 2020
Yahoo.com
A mutated coronavirus strain causes most new COVID-19 infections in Europe and was spread within the continent by tourists, scientists say
...There isn't enough data to suggest this variant, known as 20A.EU1, is more deadly, the team from the University of Basel, ETH Zürich in Basel, and SeqCOVID in Spain said. The variant has been identified in...
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29 Oct 2020
bionity.com (eng.)
An artificial cell on a chip
University of Basel, Department of Chemistry The researchers used their new method to produce three different types of vesicles with a uniform size but different enzymatic cargoes. Zoom in Researchers...
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26 Oct 2020
phys.org
Coronavirus volunteers: Greater satisfaction thanks to online platforms
by University of Basel Shortly after the lockdown began, a huge number of volunteers signed up to help people in coronavirus risk groups—primarily via online platforms. A study by the University of ...
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26 Oct 2020
hautehorlogerie.org (engl.)
Is “clean” tomorrow’s gold standard?
...origin of gold poses considerable problems,” declared Mark Pieth, a professor of criminal law at the University of Basel and author of Gold Laundering (published in 2019), in his introduction to Basel Gold Day....
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23 Oct 2020
scientificinquirer.com
Bronze Age pastoralists we less mobile than thought
...agricultural innovations spread to Europe. An international research team, with the participation of the University of Basel, has published a paper on this topic. During the Bronze Age (ca. 3900 – 1000 BCE), herders...
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21 Oct 2020
Bloomberg.com
What It Takes to Get to Herd Immunity
...simulated epidemic with an R0 of 3.5 on the Covid-19 Scenarios site created by scientists at the University of Basel in Switzerland and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. According to the 1-1/R0 formula...
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21 Oct 2020
phys.org
Bronze Age herders were less mobile than previously thought
by University of Basel Grazing animals on Caucasus mountain pastures. Credit: Sabine Reinhold Bronze Age pastoralists in what is now southern Russia apparently covered shorter distances than previously...
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19 Oct 2020
Daily Mail
Why white noise apps won't help you to sleep
...drown out background noise. Professor Christian Cajochen, of the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland, said: 'Any acoustic stimulus being continuous or not has the potential...
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18 Oct 2020
Guardian
White noise as sleep aid may do more harm than good, say scientists
...[for it working] is poor.” Prof Christian Cajochen, who heads the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel in Switzerland, said: “I think the better [forms of] continuous white noise mask highly...
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17 Oct 2020
allafrica.com
Guinea: Tensions Ahead of Crucial Presidential Elections
...Conde's candidacy Joschka Philipps, a sociologist and researcher with a focus on Guinea at the University of Basel, Switzerland, thinks that the opposition's participation not only "legitimizes Conde's...
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16 Oct 2020
breitbart.com
Switzerland: 38 Per Cent of Over-15s have ‘Migration Background’
...social assistance, with the majority of Eritreans in Switzerland not in work, even after years, the University of Basel scholar claimed that there was “considerable untapped potential” in the migrant population...
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15 Oct 2020
drugs.com
Having Heart Disease Can Make Other Surgeries More Risky
...noncardiac surgery than has been recognized to date," said study author Dr. Christian Puelacher, from the University of Basel in Switzerland. "Patients are also at risk for a longer period than was previously thought."...
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15 Oct 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Swiss health experts sign letter wary of herd immunity claims
...University of Geneva, Jacques Fellay at the University Hospital in Lausanne, Emma Hodcroft at the University of Basel, and Ilona Kickbusch from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies...
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13 Oct 2020
Psychology Today
Why Moms Are Having More Trouble Sleeping During Coronavirus
...improved sleep quality,” sleep researcher and cognitive neuroscientist Christine Blume from the University of Basel, Switzerland told Science Daily. "However, in our sample, overall sleep quality decreased....
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12 Oct 2020
News Medical
HIV epidemic: Successful use of self-tests in rural Africa
...only about 60 percent of the village population. A team led by Niklaus Labhardt, professor at the University of Basel and research group leader at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH),...
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11 Oct 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Swiss scientists fight food waste at the nano level
...National Research Programme NRP 69, “Healthy Nutrition and Sustainable Food Production”. In the University of Basel’s chemistry department, Professor Cornelia Gabriela Palivan and Ozana Fischer developed...
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08 Oct 2020
MIT Technology Review
Winter will make the pandemic worse
...potentially accelerate the virus’s transmission,” says Richard Neher, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who is developing simulations of how coronavirus spreads through a room....
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08 Oct 2020
Washington Post
Women are systematically excluded from global coronavirus coverage, experts say
...scientists among the group most widely cited in Switzerland, who studies and tracks viruses at the University of Basel. In May, 35 female scientists from across North America and Europe co-authored a piece...
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05 Oct 2020
STUFF
Covid-19: The NZ strains and our second wave of coronavirus
...came from the UK. Emma Hodcroft, one of the co-founders of Nextstrain and a geneticist at the University of Basel, cautioned against concluding variants are more prevalent in the United Kingdom than elsewhere....
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04 Oct 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Hackers steal wages from Swiss universities
The University of Basel is one of the hacked institutions Keystone Unidentified cybercriminals have managed to siphon off employee salary transfers from at least three Swiss universities, including the...
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30 Sep 2020
en24news.com
A victim of the pandemic, Zambia is almost bankrupt
...“The Zambian economic situation was critical long before Covid-19,” says Rita Kesselring, researcher at the University of Basel and co-author of a study entitled “Swiss extractivism: Switzerland’s role in Zambia’s copper sector”, published the year latest. The cou...
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28 Sep 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
The soapy secrets behind Basel’s first film
...“Lavanchy-Clarke was the guy who really was behind it,” explains project leader Hansmartin Siegrist from the University of Basel’s Media Seminar and the FHNW Academy of Art and Design. “But he was so busy organising...
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25 Sep 2020
dailyhealthpost.com
Scientists confirm: babysitting your grandkids helps you live longer
...authors of the study, Sonja Hilbrand, a doctoral student in the department of psychology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, noted that (2): “This link could be a mechanism deeply rooted in our evolutionary...
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22 Sep 2020
MSN (USA)
3 Ways Exercise Benefits Your Mental Health
...work your body, you boost your mind in three essential ways. A new report from researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland and the University of Tsukuba in Japan has found that coordinated and challenging...
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18 Sep 2020
The New York Times
Sometimes Food Fights Back
“There is no reason to assume that this is beneficial for the algae,” said Dieter Ebert, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who wasn’t involved in the study.
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17 Sep 2020
ewn.co.za
Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography
...Colonial Southern Africa published by Wits University Press. Lorena Rizzo is a senior lecturer at the University of Basel. This article first appeared in The Conversation. Download the EWN app to your iOS or...
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16 Sep 2020
businesswire.com
Polyneuron Extends Series A to CHF 36.5 Million with Additional CHF 14 Million
...antigen-specific manner, while leaving the rest of the immune system intact. Polyneuron was founded as a University of Basel, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, spin-off in 2014 by Dr. Ruben Herrendorff (CEO),...
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14 Sep 2020
Nanowerk
Bioactive nano-capsules to hijack cell behavior
...nanocapsules could become a valuable tool for medicine to control these pathways. Researchers from the University of Basel have taken an important step in this direction: They succeed in having several different...
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14 Sep 2020
Physicsworld.com
Spin valve uses coupled quantum dots and tiny magnetic fields
...create spin valves using semiconductor materials. Tiny magnetic fields Now, physicists at the University of Basel along with collaborators at the National Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology...
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14 Sep 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Masks, half-empty lecture halls: Swiss universities’ hybrid approach
...in France. All countries have implemented hygiene measures. End of insertion At the University of Basel, Switzerland’s oldest, two-thirds of students will be doing distance-learning. “For students this...
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12 Sep 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Study finds well-known drug may slow muscle loss among the elderly
...process. This content was published on September 12, 2020 - 17:50 September 12, 2020 - 17:50 University of Basel/sb The Swiss generally live long lives. According to the most recent statistics, Swiss...
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11 Sep 2020
ScienceDaily
Worldwide loss of phosphorus due to soil erosion quantified for the first time
Date: September 11, 2020 Source: University of Basel Summary: Phosphorus is essential for agriculture, yet this important plant nutrient is increasingly being lost from soils around the world. The primary...
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11 Sep 2020
dw.com (en.)
Guinea presidential election: Alpha Conde again?
...FNDC's regional coordinator, told DW. Opposition's dilemma Joschka Philipps, a sociologist at the University of Basel believes that the FNDC is undergoing a difficult transition from a civil society movement...
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10 Sep 2020
Scientific American
Molecular Medicine Keeps Mice Mighty in Microgravity
...activin A could preserve or restore muscle on the ground. Physiologist Christoph Handschin of the University of Basel in Switzerland agrees, but he adds a caveat: “This looks super-promising — if this can...
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10 Sep 2020
Spiegel Online (International)
Cold Corona Comfort: Germany Braces for the Second COVID-19 Wave
...signs as indicating that things could get better,” says Emma Hodcroft, an epidemiologist at the University of Basel’s Biozentrum, a center specializing in molecular and biomedical research. "But you have...
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09 Sep 2020
azom.com
New Minuscule Instrument to Detect Extremely Faint Magnetic Fields
Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields. At the heart of the superconducting quantum interference device are two atomically...
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09 Sep 2020
ScienceDaily
Muscle aging: Stronger for longer
Date: September 9, 2020 Source: University of Basel Summary: With life expectancy increasing, age-related diseases are also on the rise, including sarcopenia, the loss of muscle mass due to aging. Researchers...
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09 Sep 2020
ScienceDaily
Romantic partners influence each other's goals
Date: September 8, 2020 Source: University of Basel Summary: Over the long-term, what one partner in a two-person relationship wishes to avoid, so too does the other partner -- and what one wants to achieve,...
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08 Sep 2020
azonano.com
Compact SQUID Instrument to Measure Extremely Faint Magnetic Fields
At the University of Basel, physicists have designed a compact instrument capable of detecting very small magnetic fields. (a) A conventional superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) consists...
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08 Sep 2020
Mirror
Major cancer breakthrough as study shows oxygen injections can stop tumours spreading
...separated also had less oxygen - showing they depart if they do not receive enough. Prof Aceto, of Basel University, Switzerland, said: "It is as though too many people are crowded together in a small space....
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08 Sep 2020
ScienceDaily
A tiny instrument to measure the faintest magnetic fields
Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields. At the heart of the superconducting quantum interference device are two atomically...
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08 Sep 2020
nature
The coronavirus is mutating — does it matter?
...of influenza and one-quarter that of HIV, says Emma Hodcroft, a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Other genome data have emphasized this stability — more than 90,000 isolates...
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07 Sep 2020
The Conversation
Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography
Women photographers, and black African women photographers in particular, are largely absent from early histories of the medium.
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07 Sep 2020
phys.org
A tiny instrument to measure the faintest magnetic fields
by University of Basel (a) A conventional superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) consists of a superconducting ring interrupted at two points by weak links (in this case a graphene layer)....
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07 Sep 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Switzerland is not an island
...Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) and Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Basel. She is a member of the Swiss Science Council, a consultative body to the Swiss government....
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29 Aug 2020
ScienceDaily
How bacteria adhere to fiber in the gut
...two different binding modes, they can withstand the shear forces in the body. Scientists of the University of Basel and ETH Zurich published their results in the journal Nature Communications. advertisement...
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28 Aug 2020
VICE (US)
Researchers announce first-ever clinical trial combining MDMA and LSD
...psilocybin or LSD,” says Dr Matthias Liechti, a professor of clinical pharmacology at Switzerland’s University of Basel and head of the research lab that will be working on the study. “Inducing an overall primarily...
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25 Aug 2020
dw.com (en.)
Friedrich Nietzsche: The dynamite German philosopher
...continue his studies. At age 24, he took up a post as a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel. After a marked decline in health, Nietzsche was forced to take leave and in 1879, he resigned...
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25 Aug 2020
breitbart.com
Swiss told to integrate with foreigners
...Questioned by the Swiss-German language daily on whether mass migration could at least be “slowed”, the University of Basel scholar was insistent that once the door is opened to population transfers from the third...
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25 Aug 2020
ScienceDaily
Climate change and land use are accelerating soil erosion by water
Date: August 24, 2020 Source: University of Basel Summary: Soil loss due to water runoff could increase greatly around the world over the next 50 years due to climate change and intensive land cultivation....
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24 Aug 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Universities: higher numbers of students due to corona
...Strain The expected rise in students is putting a strain on universities’ distancing concepts. The University of Basel has already reacted: two-thirds of students there will be doing distance-learning after...
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22 Aug 2020
Philadelphia Metro
Rich people sleep better
...preferred sleep-wake patterns,” Christine Blume, sleep researcher at the Centre for Chronobiology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, explained to Metro. Other specialists point out that a higher or lower income...
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18 Aug 2020
telegraph.co.uk
Winter resurgence of Covid-19 predicted as experts warn of hard times ahead
...Human behaviour also plays an important role. As the biologist and physicist Richard Neher at the University of Basel has noted, “people spend more time indoors” in winter. Diners and drinkers have been...
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18 Aug 2020
Psychology Today
Cortisol Signaling Affects Memories of Psychological Trauma
...al., 2020) were published on August 17 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The University of Basel researchers led by Vanja Vukojevic found that severely traumatized individuals were less...
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18 Aug 2020
ScienceDaily
Researchers discover protective factor against psychological trauma
Date: August 18, 2020 Source: University of Basel Summary: The endogenous regulation of a specific gene is associated with a reduced risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder following a terrifying...
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17 Aug 2020
chemeurope.com
Efficient valves for electron spins
Illustration: University of Basel, Department of Physics Illustration of the spin valve: Both quantum dots (dashed ellipses) on the nanowire are tuned by nanomagnets (brown bars) such that they only allow...
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13 Aug 2020
chemeurope.com
A highly light-absorbent and tunable material
Nadine Leisgang and Lorenzo Ceccarelli, Department of Physics, University of Basel Schematic illustration of the electron-hole pairs (electron: pink, hole: blue), which are formed by absorption of light...
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12 Aug 2020
phys.org
Efficient valves for electron spins
by University of Basel Both quantum dots (dashed ellipses) on the nanowire are tuned by nanomagnets (brown bars) such that they only allow electrons with an 'up' spin to pass. If the orientation of one...
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11 Aug 2020
phys.org
A highly light-absorbent and tunable material
by University of Basel Schematic illustration of the electron-hole pairs (electron: pink, hole: blue), which are formed by absorption of light in the two-layer molybdenum disulfide layer. Credit: Nadine...
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11 Aug 2020
nature
Inside the mind of an animal
...Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, and Jan Gründemann at the University of Basel searched in the amygdala, which is central to the regulation of a range of emotions and...
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10 Aug 2020
Nanowerk
Double layer of 2D materials unlocks crucial properties
(Nanowerk News) By layering different two-dimensional materials, physicists at the University of Basel have created a novel structure with the ability to absorb almost all light of a selected wavelength....
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07 Aug 2020
ScienceDaily
Autism: How a gene alteration modifies social behavior
A team of researchers at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has discovered a new connection between a genetic alteration and social difficulties related to autism: A mutation in the neuroligin-3 gene...
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06 Aug 2020
Yahoo Health
Feeling stressed? New research says regular laughter can help
...from the Division of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology of the Department of Psychology at the University of Basel published in the PLOS ONE journal found that regular amounts of laughter can help relieve...
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05 Aug 2020
phys.org
Acetate regulates immune cells for a precisely orchestrated immune defense
by University of Basel The concentration of acetate increases particularly sharply at the site of an infection in the body. As reported in the journal Cell Metabolism by a team of researchers from the...
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05 Aug 2020
nature
How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
...transmission through droplets is a bigger risk, says Richard Neher, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Simulations by Neher’s group show that seasonal variation is likely to...
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03 Aug 2020
Psychology Today
Can Partners Help Us Move Toward Our Ideal Selves?
...with permission. The question of ideal selves intrigued us. In a recent study from our lab at the University of Basel in Switzerland, we asked 326 male-female couple members (ranging from 18 to 88 years of...
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03 Aug 2020
in.news.yahoo.com
Gold in secret vault is traced to Hugo Chávez's former nurse
...Mark Pieth, a money-laundering expert at the University of Basel, Switzerland, said that CBH could lose its license or face other disciplinary action if it is determined they knew, or should’ve known, what Beaumont was doing for his Venezuelan clients....
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02 Aug 2020
The Times of India
Study suggests laughter acts as stress buffer
...this does not seem to apply to the intensity of laughter. The findings of the new research by the University of Basel were published in the journal PLOS ONE. It is estimated that people typically laugh...
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31 Jul 2020
theengineer.co.uk
Video of the week: Miracle adds laser precision to bone surgery
...of Miracle (Minimally Invasive Robot-Assisted Computer-guided LaserosteotomE), a project at the University of Basel which initially combined high precision laserosteotomy with endoscopy for surgical applications...
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31 Jul 2020
ScienceDaily
Laughter acts as a stress buffer -- and even smiling helps
Date: July 30, 2020 Source: University of Basel Summary: People who laugh frequently in their everyday lives may be better equipped to deal with stressful events - although this does not seem to apply to...
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29 Jul 2020
Daily Mail
More money, more sleep!
...under lockdown recommendations, but the quality has dropped significantly. Researchers from the University of Basel surveyed 435 individuals between 23 March and 26 April 2020 on how the lockdown has influenced...
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27 Jul 2020
Climate News Network
Rising heat affects Europe’s floods and droughts
...us that beech, silver fir and pine were also damaged to this extent,” said Ansgar Kahmen of the University of Basel in Switzerland. “We still need to study which tree species are good in which combinations,...
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25 Jul 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Legal expert Luzius Wildhaber, first president of ECHR, dies
.../ Markus Stuecklin Luzius Wildhaber, an international law expert and Professor Emeritus of the University of Basel, has died aged 83. He was the first full-time president of the European Court of Human...
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24 Jul 2020
Materials Today
Doped graphene nanoribbons could offer breakthrough in quantum computing
...interest for applications in quantum computing.”Ernst Meyer A team led by researchers from the University of Basel and the University of Bern have developed the first graphene nanoribbons where the crystal...
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24 Jul 2020
labiotech.eu
Swiss Company Raises €23M to Smash Cancer with Bacteria
...€23.3M (CHF 25M), to develop a bacterial cancer therapy. Since T3 Pharma was spun off from the University of Basel in 2015, the firm has raised €37M (CHF 40M). The fundraiser included investors such as...
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23 Jul 2020
Today
Confusion and fear as Iran says millions may have virus
...numbers is a strategic mistake". Yet according to Dr Emma Hodcroft, a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel, the estimate of "a country-wide seropositivity rate of 30 per cent, from numbers given,...
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23 Jul 2020
einpresswire.com
Basel AML Index 2020: Weak oversight and dormant systems
...financial crimes. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland since 2003, it is an Associated Institute of the University of Basel and has offices and field experts across Latin America and Africa. Some 80+ staff members...
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23 Jul 2020
Bloomberg.com
When New York City Got Covid-19
...together by researchers in the laboratory of physicist-turned-epidemiologist Richard Neher of the University of Basel in Switzerland (and some other people). Covid-19 Scenarios consists of a Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered...
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23 Jul 2020
Time Magazine
Inside the Global Quest to Trace the Origins of COVID-19
...areas of the virus targeted by the vaccine, and check the mutations,” says Emma Hodcroft from the University of Basel, who co-developed Nextstrain. “We can predict how disruptive those mutations are to the...
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22 Jul 2020
firstwordpharma.com
T3 Pharma raises 25M CHF to advance bacterial cancer therapy through clinic
...enter the clinic in 2021. T3 Pharma was founded in 2015 as a spin-off from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. Since then, it has raised a total of 40 million CHF in funding from investors, including...
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21 Jul 2020
Guardian
Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy
...quality, but it gives a good view,” says Karin Hediger, a psychotherapist and researcher at the University of Basel, in Switzerland. For two years, Hediger has run a centre housing horses, rabbits and chickens,...
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20 Jul 2020
en24news.com
Colonize space or tinker with the climate
...“This vision is a fantasy of omnipotence,” notes Andreas Brenner, professor of philosophy at the University of Basel. “It is also based on the idea that we could live quite well without the Earth. But man...
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20 Jul 2020
The Times of Israel
Zarko and Boris Dolinar – Holocaust Heroes and Righteous Among the Nations
...medicine, and in 1959 he earned a doctorate in the field. Later he became a professor of biology in Basel University in Switzerland. CONCLUSION Žarko Dolinar was married to Judith Duić, whose family he...
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19 Jul 2020
world-today-news.com
Differences of the pandemics – naturopathy & naturopathic specialist portal
...million lives worldwide just over 100 years ago. In a recent communication, two historians from the University of Basel clarify some differences and similarities between the two pandemics. At the end of the...
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18 Jul 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
How Swiss minimalist houses launched a new building style
...associated with the political left, they met hostility from the right.” Rhea Rieben, a historian at Basel University, studied the reactions in newspapers of the time for her doctorate. “Right-wingers linked...
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17 Jul 2020
health24.co.za
Covid-19: What the science says on some of the treatments that have been tried, but not worked
...treatments, as there was evidence that they could work against Covid-19. A research group from the University of Basel has now established why these drugs will not work. The concentration of these two drugs...
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17 Jul 2020
Space Mart
Scientists map radioactive soil in Western Europe
...first study author Katrin Meusburger, researcher with the group Environmental Geoscience at the University of Basel, said in a news release. "To do this, it is important to know the proportion of radioactive...
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16 Jul 2020
Deccan Herald
Second Covid-19 strain may be more infectious, but some scientists skeptical
...types with an immune system in a human body,” says Emma Hodcroft, a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who was not involved in the study. “We just have to be really careful with...
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16 Jul 2020
myScience Schweiz
Heat stress: the climate is putting European forests under sustained pressure
...A total of 450 trees between 50 and 120 years old grow on the 1.6 hectare research area. (Photo: University of Basel) No year since weather records began was as hot and dry as 2018. A first comprehensive...
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15 Jul 2020
Spiegel Online (International)
The Changing Virus
...changing and how the virus spreads. Since 2015, physicist Richard Neher from the Biozentrum at the University of Basel and U.S. biologist Trevor Bedford have been trying to better understand the course of epidemics....
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15 Jul 2020
newsdirectory3.com
Do mutations make the corona virus more dangerous?
...strains circulating in Europe and on the east coast of the USA, explains Richard Neher from the University of Basel. “However, it cannot be concluded from this dominance that the virus spreads faster with...
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14 Jul 2020
Science.org
The pandemic virus is slowly mutating. But is it getting more dangerous?
...does not mean the mutation has an effect in the real world, says virologist Emma Hodcroft of the University of Basel. In the past, she notes, “We have cases where we really thought that we had evidence for...
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14 Jul 2020
world-today-news.com
Students can go back to the lecture hall – but only with a mask
...officially prescribed distance regulations cannot be observed.” It is still unclear whether the University of Basel will also issue a mask requirement for the students. There the ball is at the canton. He...
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14 Jul 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Swiss remain stressed despite lockdown easing
...the lockdown, many Swiss felt more stressed than they did before the Covid-19 pandemic, a survey by Basel University has found. The study also shows an increase in cases of depression. July 14, 2020 -...
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14 Jul 2020
Sound Health and Lasting Wealth
Taking whey protein at night may lead to diabetes, heart disease
...diabetes. But now, researchers say that this may not be the case. According to a new study from the University of Basel in Switzerland, consuming protein at night increases the blood sugar level in the morning...
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12 Jul 2020
News Medical
Concentration of lopinavir and hydroxychloroquine not sufficient to fight novel coronavirus
...regarded as potential agents in the fight against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. A research group from the University of Basel and the University Hospital has now discovered that the concentration of the two drugs...
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12 Jul 2020
The Korea Times
What to know about GH strain of coronavirus
...when you scale that up to the whole human body, Emma Hodcroft, a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland was quoted as saying by Science News, referring to the study published by...
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10 Jul 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Basel study: hydroxychloroquine not effective
...University Hospital Basel (Fabian Fiechter for University Hospital Basel) July 10, 2020 - 16:23 University of Basel/Reuters/Keystone-SDA/swissinfo.ch/ilj Basel scientists have confirmed that the malaria...
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10 Jul 2020
News Medical
As winter comes other viruses will compete with SARS-CoV-2 for susceptible hosts
...The researchers from the University of Basel looked at the patients with symptoms resembling influenza, who were enrolled in two hospitals in Basel, Switzerland. They took two swabs from nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal sites for each adult,...
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09 Jul 2020
innovations-report.com
Porous graphene ribbons doped with nitrogen for electronics and quantum computing
...Using scanning tunneling microscopy, the scientists from the Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) at the University of Basel also demonstrated that these new graphene ribbons were no longer electrical conductors, like pure graphene, but ...
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09 Jul 2020
en24news.com
Covid-19 – Many people remain very stressed despite the deconfinement
...According to a study by the University of Basel published on Monday, 50% of participants in an online survey felt more stressed during confinement than before the coronavirus crisis. Another 40% feel more stressed during the relaxation of anti-virus measures....
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08 Jul 2020
thriveglobal.com
The Evolutionary Reason Kindness Makes You Successful
...University of Basel neuroscientist Kelly Clancy continues the story of cooperation in a new essay for the science magazine Nautilus. At a mathematical level, working together allows individual animals to become greater than the sum of their parts: mice huddling to...
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07 Jul 2020
Tacoma News Tribune
Another back-to-school challenge: Reeling in kids’ bedtimes
...The respondents also reported getting about a quarter of an hour more shut-eye. The paper from the University of Basel, publishing in the science journal Current Biology, concluded that the respondents, most...
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06 Jul 2020
Christian Post
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘quick eye’: Developing your God-given talents
...advantage common to some baseball players and tennis stars. David Thaler is a geneticist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He has been studying higher flicker fusion frequency, a trait he calls...
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06 Jul 2020
Corriere del Ticino
Stress increase post lockdown
...depressive symptoms is even higher than that observed during the lockdown - according to a study by the University of Basel. 50% of respondents to an online survey say they felt more stressed than usual during...
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05 Jul 2020
Sify.com
Young children with high blood pressure more vulnerable to eye issues
...M.D., the study's lead author and a professor in the department of sport, exercise and health at the University of Basel in Switzerland. "Primary prevention strategies are needed to focus on screening retinal...
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05 Jul 2020
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Another back-to-school COVID-19 challenge: Reeling in kids’ bedtimes
...The respondents also reported getting about a quarter of an hour more shut-eye. The paper from the University of Basel, publishing in the science journal Current Biology, concluded that the respondents, most...
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04 Jul 2020
Washington Post
Fish eggs can hatch even after being eaten and pooped out by ducks
...isolated water bodies can be populated by fish,” said fish biologist Patricia Burkhardt-Holm of the University of Basel in Switzerland, who was not involved with the work. This study shows one way that water...
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02 Jul 2020
The Pioneer
Sleep well
...your body relax and prepare for a healthier sleep,” says he. Recently, a survey, conducted at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and the University’s Psychiatric Hospital, reported that sleep quality has...
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01 Jul 2020
MSN UK
Did Leonardo da Vinci's 'quick eye' help him capture Mona Lisa's fleeting smile?
...phenomenon may be a result of a higher flicker fusion frequency, said David Thaler, a geneticist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He added that the trait could explain how some baseball players can spot...
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01 Jul 2020
windowtonews.com
'This positive news' comes during the finding of the Coronavirus vaccine
...change is not so much that the vaccine becomes useless. In this regard, epidemic cases expert from Basel University, Switzerland, Emma Hodcroft says that there is no need to panic whatever mutations or genetic...
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30 Jun 2020
ScienceDaily
Ethnolinguistic diversity slows down urban growth
...factor on urban development had not been examined directly. Professor Kurt Schmidheiny from the University of Basel has now provided the first empirical proof of this relationship in collaboration with colleagues...
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29 Jun 2020
American Heart Association
Narrowing eye vessels in young children might predict high blood pressure
...said in a news release. He is a professor in the department of sport, exercise and health at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Checking the health of eye vessels and monitoring blood pressure early...
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29 Jun 2020
ScienceDaily
Blood pressure connected to eye health in young children
...M.D., the study's lead author and a professor in the department of sport, exercise and health at the University of Basel in Switzerland. "Primary prevention strategies are needed to focus on screening retinal...
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26 Jun 2020
publicnow.com
New Permanent Representative of Switzerland Presents Credentials
...and public law and a master's degree in history, French literature and linguistics, both from the University of Basel. Born in 1968, she is married and has two adult children. She is also a passionate jazz...
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24 Jun 2020
The Times
How sharp eyesight smiled on Leonardo da Vinci
...second when the Mona Lisa broke into an enigmatic smile, a study has found. David S Thaler of the University of Basel in Switzerland said that this sharpness of vision, shared with elite athletes, was likely...
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23 Jun 2020
Christian Science Monitor
Protect the vote, or the voter? In African elections, no easy choice.
...case, and who has a say in making it happen,” says Emmaculate Liaga, a visiting researcher at the University of Basel. Blantyre, Malawi The crowd gathered in Kasungu, stretched down its main street and...
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22 Jun 2020
cyclingindustry.news
Covid-19: Documenting the first chapter of a new bike boom
...that lays claim to the sale of 800 bikes sold in a single day. Elsewhere in Europe, Switzerland’s University of Basel tracked transport shifts via a project dubbed MOBIS and discovered the bicycle taking up...
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18 Jun 2020
CTV News
Leonardo da Vinci's 'quick eye' may be key to Mona Lisa's magnetism
...Art historians have long talked of da Vinci's "quick eye", but David S. Thaler of Switzerland's University of Basel has tried to gauge it in a new study published Thursday alongside another paper showing...
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18 Jun 2020
CNN.com
Scientists have created mini brains containing Neanderthal DNA - CNN
...although it was in a very early stage of research. Camp, who is an assistant professor at the University of Basel, has also made brain-like tissue from chimpanzee cells to try and understand how the human...
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17 Jun 2020
Guardian
The secret language of sniffs – from ‘I have bad news’ to ‘This toilet is occupied’
...hardwired into our unconscious behaviour. Science has proved it. Has it? Yes. Elliott Hoey from the University of Basel has published a study in the journal Research on Language and Social Interaction. He examined...
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17 Jun 2020
Daily Mail
Sniffing is an underrated communication tool and can be used to indicate anything from the end of a thought
...the end of a thought or the approach of a difficult subject, researchers claim. Research by the University of Basel, Switzerland, focused on the sharp audible intake of breath through the nose, rather than...
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16 Jun 2020
The Indian Express
New Research: Survey finds sleep is longer in lockdown, but quality poor Researchers surveyed 435 individuals
...published in the journal Current Biology. (File Photo/Representational) A survey conducted at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and the university’s Psychiatric Hospital has investigated how sleep has...
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15 Jun 2020
Inquirer
Many of us slept longer during lockdown but sleep quality was worse, says study
...however on the downside, the quality of our sleep was worse. Carried out by researchers at the University of Basel and the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, the new study surveyed 435 adults...
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14 Jun 2020
ScienceDaily
How COVID-19 lockdown has altered sleep in the US and Europe
...improved sleep quality," says sleep researcher and cognitive neuroscientist Christine Blume from the University of Basel's Centre for Chronobiology, Switzerland. "However, in our sample, overall sleep quality...
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13 Jun 2020
ScienceDaily
Adding noise for completely secure communication
...eavesdropping attacks? advertisement A team of physicists led by Professor Nicolas Sangouard of the University of Basel and Professor Renato Renner of ETH Zurich have developed the theoretical foundations for...
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12 Jun 2020
mindbodygreen.com
The Pandemic Has Us Sleeping More — But Not Necessarily Better
...that's not the only way the coronavirus is affecting our sleep. In two new studies, one by the University of Basel in Switzerland and the other by the University of Boulder, research found we're sleeping...
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11 Jun 2020
News Medical
Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on sleep quality
...social jetlag." Christine Blume (@christine_blume), sleep researcher and cognitive neuroscientist ,University of Basel's Centre for Chronobiology, Switzerland In their study, Blume and colleagues including...
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10 Jun 2020
cnet.co.uk
We're all sleeping worse due to COVID-19, study shows
...according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology on Wednesday. The study from the University of Basel in Switzerland examined sleep patterns in 435 people during the strictest phase of lockdown...
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10 Jun 2020
LSE EUROPP blog
Is there really a revolving door between politics and business?
The so called ‘revolving door’ problem refers to the apparent tendency of politicians to pursue lucrative career opportunities after they leave politics. But to what extent does this image of politicians as opportunists seeking to benefit from their time in office match reality?
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08 Jun 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Clean gold: How Switzerland could set new supply chain standards
...mining comes with its fair share of risks and problems,” notes Mark Pieth, professor of criminal law at Basel University in an op-ed for swissinfo.ch. In this regard, the Alpine nation often falls short. Swiss...
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08 Jun 2020
Materials Today
New study confirms 2D material has edge on topological superconductivity
...flows through the material in very narrow channels at the outer edges. Image: Department of Physics, University of Basel. Topological insulators represent a key area of research because they could potentially...
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06 Jun 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Manipulating mosquitoes Swiss scientist’s work could stop malaria – but how soon?
...diseases. For that reason, the Head of Unit at the Swiss TPH and professor of epidemiology at the University of Basel warns against setting expectations too high. Lengeler finds Herren’s research “very interesting...
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06 Jun 2020
pharmaceutical-tech.com
Polyneuron’s PN-1007 Receives U.S. FDA Orphan Drug Designation in Anti-MAG Neuropathy
...(auto)antibodies, while leaving the rest of the immune system intact. Polyneuron was founded as a University of Basel, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, spin-off in 2014 by Dr. Ruben Herrendorff (CEO),...
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05 Jun 2020
Daily Mail
Coronavirus patients with high blood pressure face TWICE the risk of dying from the disease, study finds
Coronavirus patients with high blood pressure face twice the risk of dying from the disease, according to a study. Researchers combed through the data of 2,900 patients in China, almost a third of whom had hypertension - the medical term for high blood pressure.
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03 Jun 2020
The New Times (RW)
Killing of unarmed black man in U.S. draws widespread condemnation in Africa
...said Elisio Macamo, a sociologist from Mozambique, currently a professor of African Studies at the University of Basel. "The racial problem in America is, on the one hand, the sequel to a poorly worked past...
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02 Jun 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Employment law Pandemic triggers debate over home office rules, compensation
...[Telework] can’t be a cost- saving programme.” We spoke to labour law experts Kurt Pärli of the University of Basel and Thomas Geiser of the University of St Gallen to clarify the implications of this ruling...
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26 May 2020
ScienceDaily
Lossless conduction at the edges
...Christian Schönenberger of the Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel has now analyzed tiny tungsten ditelluride crystals consisting of between one and 20 layers....
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26 May 2020
scienmag.com
Lossless conduction at the edges
Credit: Department of Physics, University of Basel Topological insulators represent a key area of research because they could potentially be used as superconductors in the electronics of the future. Materials...
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26 May 2020
ScienceNews
Is the coronavirus mutating? Yes. But here’s why you don’t need to panic
...mutations even if they don’t alter the protein, says Emma Hodcroft, a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “But that doesn’t mean that it’s a new strain or that it’s a virus that...
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23 May 2020
BBC
Coronavirus: Protective badges and cannabis claims fact-checked
...information and how it has mutated over time. Dr Emma Hodcroft, a molecular epidemiologist at the University of Basel, says it's clear that samples of the virus in the US and Europe can be linked back to the...
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22 May 2020
E&T Engineering and Technology Magazine
Exclusive Covid-19 versus genomics and other advanced technologies
...spread locally and from one to another,” explains Emma Hodcroft, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Basel in Switzerland. “If two samples have the same typos, it means they probably come from...
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17 May 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Clean gold: How Switzerland could set new supply chain standards
...mining comes with its fair share of risks and problems,” notes Mark Pieth, professor of criminal law at Basel University in an op-ed for swssinfo.ch. In this regard, the Alpine nation often falls short. Swiss...
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16 May 2020
telegraph.co.uk
Our modelling must be the best as Britain comes out of lockdown
...Clear models, accessible code and open data make this possible. For example, researchers at the University of Basel along with over 60 external contributors, have built an open source Covid-19 Scenarios...
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15 May 2020
scienmag.com
Clear reduction in urban CO2 emissions as a result of COVID-19 lockdown
...Alessandro Zaldei, Italian National Research Council CNR; Roland Vogt and Christian Feigenwinter, University of Basel; Stavros Stagakis and Nektarios Chrysoulakis, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas...
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15 May 2020
swissinfo (engl.)
Nextstrain Emma Hodcraft: The ‘virus hunter’
...coronavirus research The computational biologist Emma Hodcroft (33) has been working as a postdoc at the University of Basel since 2017. She grew up in Norway, Scotland and the US. She studied biology at Texas Christian...
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15 May 2020
News Medical
IOB director wins Greenberg Prize for ending blindness by 2020
...Director at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and Professor at the University of Basel, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science, has won the Sanford and Susan Greenberg Visionary...
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13 May 2020
MSN India (en)
Countries with the most people now working at home
...not release labor data from the COVID-19 outbreak period until September, but research from the University of Basel found that 40% of the country’s five million workers had jobs that would enable them to...
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12 May 2020
eurosport.com
Swiss Attorney General set to face proceedings over FIFA corruption scandal
...say his position is untenable. "The only question is how will he go. The clock is ticking," said University of Basel law professor Mark Pieth. Ursula Schneider Schuettel, a member of the judiciary committee...
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08 May 2020
azom.com
Researchers Create Strong Coupling Between Two Systems over Greater Distance
... A team of physicists, led by Professor Philipp Treutlein from the Department of Physics at the University of Basel and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI), has now succeeded for the first time in creating...
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08 May 2020
cointelegraph.com
This Bitcoin Halving Is Different, Crypto Valley Experts Agree
...other financial assets. “Forget about price prediction” Finally, professor Fabian Schar from University of Basel closed his presentation during the panel discussion with his own view on the halving, saying:...
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08 May 2020
ScienceDaily
Laser loop couples quantum systems over a distance
... A team of physicists, led by Professor Philipp Treutlein from the Department of Physics at the University of Basel and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI), has now succeeded for the first time in creating...