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Understanding the effect of aging on the genome: EPFL scientists have measured the molecular footprint that aging leaves on various mouse and human tissues

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Bioengineers have created miniature intestines in a dish that match up anatomically and functionally to the real thing better than any other lab-grown tissue models

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Filter “paper” made from titanium oxide nanowires is capable of trapping pathogens (including SARS-CoV-2) and destroying them with light

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Scientists have unveiled the mechanism by which the first event of respiration takes place in heme proteins

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Scientists at EPFL's Brain Mind Institute have identified an enzyme that can play a central role in developing a new route of treatment for Huntington's Disease.

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Scientists have developed a synthetic blood-thinner that, unlike all others, doesn't cause bleeding side-effects

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One way to determine whether there is life on another planet is to look for biosignatures in the light that is scattered off its atmosphere

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The (neuro)science of getting and staying motivated: Neuroscientists at EPFL and the University of Edinburgh have discovered that the degree of motivation and the stamina to keep it up depends on the ratio between the neurotransmitters glutamine and glutamate in the nucleus accumbens of the brain.

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Switzerland's lockdown has sharply reduced the cases of Covid-19

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Treatments that block two sugar-transporting proteins could help slow the growth of lung tumours, new research from EPFL suggests.

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Graphene doped with sodium can be a key player in making cheap batteries and spintronic devices, EPFL scientists discover.

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Physicists at EPFL have successfully melted a very thin crystal of magnetic quasi-particles controllably, like turning ice into water

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The first ever high-resolution structure of an activated dopamine receptor in its natural cell membrane environment has been produced with a new computational protein-design method

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Peptides represent a billion-dollar market in the pharmaceutical industry, but they can generally only be taken as injections to avoid degradation by stomach enzymes

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Tumor cells use a mechanism that involves the protein cathepsin S to take advantage of and avoid detection from the immune system

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Introducing the light-operated hard drives of tomorrow: Placing a thin film of perovskite material used in solar cells on top of a magnetic substrate can produce more efficient hard-drives.

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Scientists have combined gold nanoparticles with cryoEM microscopy to unmask the diversity of amyloid fibrils, which are associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

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Printing tiny, high-precision objects in a matter of seconds – EPFL

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What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity?

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In a breakthrough for Parkinson’s disease, scientists at EPFL have reconstructed the process by which Lewy bodies form in the brain of patients

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Drosophila fruit flies combat oxidative stress by removing excess fat from their blood

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New quasiparticle unveiled in room-temperature semiconductors: The long-sought "Mahan exciton" appears in in the optical response of methylammonium lead-halide perovskites at room-temperature.

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Could depression be linked to our cells' metabolism? EPFL researchers have discovered a compound that stimulates brain-cell metabolism and reduces signs of depression in mice

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New treatment destroy viruses on contact and may help against viral outbreaks

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Scientists at EPFL have been able to monitor the time-evolution of thermally-induced chemical reactions with element- and structural-sensitivity.

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EPFL has developed a wearable sensor that measures how much light an individual is exposed to along with the spectral resolution of that light.

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EPFL researchers have shown that a nuclear quantum effect between water molecules plays a role in the viscosity of solutions of electrically charged polymers dissolved in water

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An EPFL's student solved a 100-year-old physics enigma

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A computational method can help accurately and rationally engineer cell receptors - and even even re-purpose them for drug development

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GeneBridge, a new big-data tool, has identified millions of connections between genes of the so-called "dark genome" and their functions, and aims to facilitate the development of precision medicine.

4 years ago actu.epfl.ch

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Understanding the effect of aging on the genome: EPFL scientists have measured the molecular footprint that aging leaves on various mouse and human tissues

Bioengineers have created miniature intestines in a dish that match up anatomically and functionally to the real thing better than any other lab-grown tissue models

Filter “paper” made from titanium oxide nanowires is capable of trapping pathogens (including SARS-CoV-2) and destroying them with light

Scientists have unveiled the mechanism by which the first event of respiration takes place in heme proteins

Scientists at EPFL's Brain Mind Institute have identified an enzyme that can play a central role in developing a new route of treatment for Huntington's Disease.

Scientists have developed a synthetic blood-thinner that, unlike all others, doesn't cause bleeding side-effects

One way to determine whether there is life on another planet is to look for biosignatures in the light that is scattered off its atmosphere

The (neuro)science of getting and staying motivated: Neuroscientists at EPFL and the University of Edinburgh have discovered that the degree of motivation and the stamina to keep it up depends on the ratio between the neurotransmitters glutamine and glutamate in the nucleus accumbens of the brain.

Switzerland's lockdown has sharply reduced the cases of Covid-19

Treatments that block two sugar-transporting proteins could help slow the growth of lung tumours, new research from EPFL suggests.

Graphene doped with sodium can be a key player in making cheap batteries and spintronic devices, EPFL scientists discover.

Physicists at EPFL have successfully melted a very thin crystal of magnetic quasi-particles controllably, like turning ice into water

The first ever high-resolution structure of an activated dopamine receptor in its natural cell membrane environment has been produced with a new computational protein-design method

Peptides represent a billion-dollar market in the pharmaceutical industry, but they can generally only be taken as injections to avoid degradation by stomach enzymes

Tumor cells use a mechanism that involves the protein cathepsin S to take advantage of and avoid detection from the immune system

Introducing the light-operated hard drives of tomorrow: Placing a thin film of perovskite material used in solar cells on top of a magnetic substrate can produce more efficient hard-drives.

Scientists have combined gold nanoparticles with cryoEM microscopy to unmask the diversity of amyloid fibrils, which are associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

Printing tiny, high-precision objects in a matter of seconds – EPFL

What if half of Switzerland's rooftops produced electricity?

In a breakthrough for Parkinson’s disease, scientists at EPFL have reconstructed the process by which Lewy bodies form in the brain of patients

Drosophila fruit flies combat oxidative stress by removing excess fat from their blood

New quasiparticle unveiled in room-temperature semiconductors: The long-sought "Mahan exciton" appears in in the optical response of methylammonium lead-halide perovskites at room-temperature.

Could depression be linked to our cells' metabolism? EPFL researchers have discovered a compound that stimulates brain-cell metabolism and reduces signs of depression in mice

New treatment destroy viruses on contact and may help against viral outbreaks

Scientists at EPFL have been able to monitor the time-evolution of thermally-induced chemical reactions with element- and structural-sensitivity.

EPFL has developed a wearable sensor that measures how much light an individual is exposed to along with the spectral resolution of that light.

EPFL researchers have shown that a nuclear quantum effect between water molecules plays a role in the viscosity of solutions of electrically charged polymers dissolved in water

An EPFL's student solved a 100-year-old physics enigma

A computational method can help accurately and rationally engineer cell receptors - and even even re-purpose them for drug development

GeneBridge, a new big-data tool, has identified millions of connections between genes of the so-called "dark genome" and their functions, and aims to facilitate the development of precision medicine.