On September 6, 2025, we had the pleasure of presenting our booth, “RNA – Master of Versatility”, at the ‘Nacht der Forschung’ (Science Night) at the University of Bern. It was a fantastic evening full of curiosity, engaging questions, and lively…
Led by the Polacek group, researchers looked into the roles in cancer of one of the four human noncoding vault RNAs, vault RNA 1-2. They found in human hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines that vault RNA 1-2 contributes to several hallmarks of cancer…
Datasets to train machine learning algorithms to predict the translational dynamics and predict the correlation between a given mRNA level and proteins produced from them have relied on data generated on libraries of synthetic mRNAs. These synthetic…
The Ban lab in collaboration with the Deuerling and Shan labs could elucidate in human cells the mechanism of co-translational N-myristoylation. This modification affects the function and localization of the modified proteins and the responsible…
The Lingner lab could shed further light on the functions of long noncoding RNA Telomeric repeat containing RNAs (TERRA). At telomeres, TERRA basepairs with DNA to form R-Loops, whose formation could now be shown depend on the DNA recombinase RAD51…
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the biggest bacterial killer and new treatment options are needed due to the emergence of resistant strains. The Sander lab previously conducted a screen for novel compounds to block M. tuberculosis, one of the…
We warmly congratulate Raphaëlle Luisier on her appointment as Assistant Professor Tenure Track for Omics Data Science for Transcriptomics at the Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern!
We would like to congratulate Magdalini Polymenidou, who is Associate Professor of Biomedicine at the Department of Quantitative Biomedicine of the University of Zurich, on being elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)!…
