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Public opinion and climate change

When is a person dead, Andreas Brenner?

When is a person dead, Stephan Marsch?

Microfactories in the body

Tim Schröder / Can you imagine having a tiny factory under your skin or in your body? A biochemical machinery that produces antibiotics or cancer medication when required?

Few regrets in the face of death

Christoph Dieffenbacher / People who take time to think about death do not regret as much in their lives as one might imagine. One reason for this could be that we do not, when we come to contemplate our mortality, wish to endanger our self-esteem and so we somehow reinterpret the past.

When sleeper cells cause problems

Karin Bundschuh / Infectious diseases are becoming increasingly hard to treat. Slow-growing bacteria in particular are making therapy difficult.

“With Europe in our backpack, Africa as a sparring partner, the world in our sights.�

Antonio Loprieno / Africa at a European university.

Perspectives on Europe and the world at large

Julia Konstantinidis / Ralph Weber likes to cross boundaries. As assistant professor at Basel’s Institute for European Global Studies, his frame of reference is global rather than Swiss or European.

Positive balance thanks to budget discipline and additional income

The 51³Ô¹Ï closed its accounts for 2014 with expenditure of about CHF 707 million and a profit of CHF 6.7 million.