Researchers led by Prof. Silvia Arber have created the most detailed map yet of the mouse motor cortex. The map reveals 16 distinct subregions and sheds new light on the brain circuits that control mo...

Cell membranes and the proteins within them control many vital processes and play a key role in health and disease. But studying them in 3D images of cells has so far meant slow, manual work. A team f...

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded Alaa Alhayek a prestigious Ambizione Grant. In her project, she will explore how a bacterium that commonly lives on our skin can cross the int...

Giant viruses are masters in evading bacterial defense systems. With a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), Prof. Yuping Li will investigate how bacteria detect and fight these gia...

Modern biology research can now generate valuable data on an unprecedented scale. But there is one major obstacle: making sense of these complex high-dimensional datasets. Prof. Erik van Nimwegen’s te...

Why does staying awake inevitably make us sleepy? Researchers led by Prof. Alex Schier have identified neuronal populations in the brain that become activated during prolonged wakefulness and are cruc...

Scientific progress comes not only from discovering something entirely new, but also from taking a fresh look at long-held assumptions. In a recent study, Prof. Jean Pieters’ team at the Biozentrum ch...

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How do blood vessels form to reliably supply the body with oxygen and nutrients? A research team led by Prof. em. Markus Affolter and Dr. Heinz-Georg Belting at the Biozentrum has revealed how pushing...

For more than thirty years, Markus Rüegg’s group has been studying muscles and nerves. In the interview, he talks about the development of a gene therapy to treat a severe form of a muscular dystrophy...

The structure of molecules and proteins has fascinated Prof. Jan Pieter Abrahams throughout his scientific career. His research has been dedicated to visualizing the fundamental molecular structures o...

The prestigious European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has elected Prof. Sebastian Hiller from the Biozentrum as a new member.

Restless legs, restless nights: Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is a common but still mysterious sleep disorder. Using zebrafish, Prof. Alex Schier’s team has discovered that a gene associated with RLS i...

The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is a global prize, established in 2013, aimed at rewarding scientists at an early stage of their careers.

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Before newly hatched fruit flies feed for the first time, they need to empty their gut. But that’s not all: researchers led by Prof. Anissa Kempf at the Biozentrum have now discovered a surprising lin...

Scientific exchange, interdisciplinary dialogue, and community spirit were at the heart of this year’s three-day Biozentrum Retreat in Olten. The event was again a highlight in the annual program of t...

Meningitis is rare in newborns but often dramatic. For the first time, researchers have developed a preventive approach that stops harmful bacteria in their tracks before transmission even occurs. Res...

Prof. Sebastian Hiller, structural biologist at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, has been elected as a new member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Anne Grahl took a leap into the unknown, moving from a postdoc at the Biozentrum into the world of venture capital. She has now been working for over four years at Pureos Bioventures, a venture capita...

Developing new medicines is a slow and costly process. For some years now, artificial intelligence (AI) has been considered a promising tool to accelerate drug discovery by identifying drug candidates...

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During infection, pathogens must adapt quickly to the conditions to thrive inside the body. Prof. Sebastian Hiller’s team has uncovered how a key protein switches on the machinery that enables Leptosp...

Ungefähr jedes Jahr wird in der Schweiz ein Kind mit einer schweren Muskelschwäche geboren. LAMA2-Muskeldystrophie ist unheilbar. Nun haben Forschende am…

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Researchers at the Biozentrum have developed a gene therapy that could potentially treat a rare and currently fatal muscle disease in children. The study shows in animal models that a single treatment...

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