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...

Whole-brain activity mapping, targeted cell manipulations and electrophysiology in mice identify wake-activated neuronal populations that are crucial for sleep drive and can persistently red...

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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Where molecules meet form I have long been interested in understanding how development emerges at the intersection of molecular and spatial organization.

For many of us who work in scientific publishing, the title of this Editorial is a question we hear all the time when we're out talking to academics. And it's a perfectly reasonable one. After all, re...

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

Researchers at the University of Basel create a 4D atlas revealing how thousands of genes shape embryonic development in the zebrafish embryo.

Gene expression patterns underlie development, but their systematic detection in whole embryos has remained elusive. We introduce a whole-embryo imaging platform using multiplexed error-robust fluores...

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Over the past 30 years, the zebrafish has emerged as a powerful model system for the study of vertebrate development and disease. This course will focus on the development and genetics of zebrafish an...

An international study led by the University of Basel has discovered that nuclear pore complexes – tiny gateways in the nuclear membrane – are not rigid or gel-like as once thought. Their interiors ar...

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The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.

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In the competition for highly sought-after research funding from the European Research Council, seven researchers from the University of Basel convinced the jury with their project ideas. Over the nex...

The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This...

Nodal signaling molecules are TGFβ family ligands that arose early during bilaterian evolution and are crucial for several key steps in embryonic development. They regulate the specification of mesode...

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