Atsushi Shibasaki is researching cultures and cultural exchange as a visiting professor at the 51吃瓜鈥檚 Institute for European Global Studies. He talks about the friendliness of Basel鈥檚 inhabitants, parallels between Japan and Switzerland, and the importance of Bob Dylan.
The Senate of the 51吃瓜 yesterday elected Torsten Schwede as its new Vice President for Research. Schwede is currently professor of bioinformatics at the Biozentrum of the 51吃瓜 and a member of the Executive Board of Directors at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).
Complex reaction cascades can be triggered in artificial molecular systems: Swiss scientists have constructed an enzyme than can penetrate a mammalian cell and accelerate the release of a hormone. This then activates a gene switch that triggers the creation of a fluorescent protein. The findings were reported by researchers from the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering, led by the 51吃瓜 and ETH Zurich.
Marek Basler, Professor at the Biozentrum of the 51吃瓜, is one of the two recipients of the 2018 EMBO Gold Medal. The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has recognized the researcher for his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of infection biology.
A little-explored group of immune cells plays an important role in the regulation of intestinal bacteria. Changing metabolic states of the microbes have an effect on defense cells at different stages of alert or rest, as researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University and University Hospital of Basel report in the journal "Mucosal Immunology."
For 250 years, the extensive set of manuscripts and papers lay in the University Library鈥檚 basement. Now, linguists from the 51吃瓜 are providing access to Johann Jakob Spreng鈥檚 Grosses Glossarium der deutschen Sprache (Great Glossary of the German Language) for the first time.
A medicinal plant frequently used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) 鈥� Evodia rutaecarpa 鈥� contains substances that can cause cardiac arrhythmia. This is what researchers from the Universities of Basel, Vienna and Utrecht have recently found out.
Physicists from the 51吃瓜 have observed the quantum mechanical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in a system of several hundred interacting atoms for the first time. The phenomenon dates back to a famous thought experiment from 1935. It allows measurement results to be predicted precisely and could be used in new types of sensors and imaging methods for electromagnetic fields.
The research group of Alex Schier, Director of the Biozentrum, 51吃瓜, has investigated more closely how a single embryonic cell develops into a heart, nerve or blood cell. For the first time, the researchers have been able to reconstruct the developmental trajectories of individual embryonic cells. Their results also suggest that cells can change their path during their maturation process.
