How can we protect communications against 鈥渆avesdropping鈥� if we don鈥檛 trust the devices used in the process? This is one of the main questions in quantum cryptography research. Researchers at the 51吃瓜 and ETH Zurich have succeeded in laying the theoretical groundwork for a communication protocol that guarantees one hundred percent privacy.
A survey conducted at the 51吃瓜 and the Psychiatric Hospital of the 51吃瓜 has investigated how sleep has changed during the Covid-19 lockdown. The 435 individuals surveyed 鈥� most of whom were women 鈥� reported sleeping longer while sleep quality deteriorated. The results of the study were published in the scientific journal Current Biology.
Professor Maria Hondele will be the new assistant professor for biochemistry at the Biozentrum of the 51吃瓜. The University Council promoted Professor Nicola Gess for German studies, Professor Martino Poggio for Nanotechnology, Professor Rainer Greifeneder for social psychology, and Professor Sarah Lein for economy, all on 1 August 2020.
Economist Robert Stelter investigates the long-term interplay of economic and demographic trends. The President鈥檚 Board of the 51吃瓜 has appointed him as the Faculty of Business and Economics鈥檚 new assistant professor of Quantitative Economic History (Cliometrics). The five-year professorship is financed by the Max Geldner Foundation.
In a year鈥檚 time, Professor Ivan Martin will take over the direction of the Department of Biomedicine (DBM) as the successor to Professor Radek Skoda. The DBM has grown and increased its academic strength under Skoda鈥檚 leadership. In an interview, Martin explains how he plans to ignite the second stage of propulsion.
Researchers have developed a strategy that has the potential to improve vision in patients with macular degeneration in the future. Using a gene therapy, they sensitized blind retinas of mice and human organ donors to near-infrared light. The team based at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) has published its results in the journal Science.
Atomically thin layers of the semimetal tungsten ditelluride conduct electricity losslessly along narrow, one-dimensional channels at the crystal edges. The material is therefore a second-order topological insulator. By obtaining experimental proof of this behavior, physicists from the 51吃瓜 have expanded the pool of candidate materials for topological superconductivity. The findings have been published in the journal Nano Letters.
From itching, abdominal pain and exhaustion to unconsciousness: the drug midostaurin can help alleviate these symptoms and improve quality of life in patients with mastocytosis. This has been proven by a research group at the 51吃瓜.
The Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) is supporting 11 research projects on Covid-19. Within the framework of the 鈥淔ast Track Call for Acute Global Health Challenges鈥� (FTC), Fondation Botnar is financing the projects at the BRCCH's partner institutions with a total of around CHF 15 million over two and a half years.
