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UZH Researcher Granted EUR 2.5 Million in Funding

Press Release / Medienmitteilung Universität Zürich
UZH scientist Raffaella Santoro has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow her to pursue her molecular biology research project for another five years. Santoro is investigating the organization of...

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Efficient genetic modification of immune cells

Press Release / Medienmitteilung Universität Basel
A new method enables genes in living T-cells in mice to be modified quickly and efficiently. It makes use of plasmids, a tried-and-tested method of genetic engineering. Researchers from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and...

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Award-winning structural biologist

ETH Zurich News Article / Artikel
Nenad Ban solved the atomic structures of the machinery protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells and in mitochondria. He has now received the Otto Naegeli Prize, one of Switzerland’s most prestigious scientific awards.

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NAR Breakthrough article: Mechanistic features of microRNA targeting and activity

Nucleic Acids Research Press Release: 

Drs. Giovanna Brancati and Helge Großhans at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research and University of Basel (Switzerland) have described target specialization of miRNAs of the let-7 family, which are ultraconserved regulators of animal cell...

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Meet some code-breakers of noncoding RNAs

Nature Methods Technology Feature

Rory Johnson was featured in a recent Nature Methods Technology Feature Article entitled "Meet some code-breakers of noncoding RNAs".

Read the Technology Feature Article in Nature Methods

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Researchers Discover New Anti-Cancer Protein

Press Release / Medienmitteilung Universität Basel 
An international team of researchers has discovered a new anti-cancer protein. The protein, called LHPP, prevents the uncontrolled proliferation of cancer cells in the liver. The researchers led by Prof. Michael N. Hall from the Biozentrum,...

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Dicer-like enzymes: Cleaving with preferences

In eukaryotes, RNA interference-derived small RNAs (sRNAs) play a critical role in development, gene expression, and genome stability. Dicer proteins have an important role as well, as they produce small RNAs (sRNAs) from long double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) templates. The enzymes are best known for...

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Architecture of cellular control center mTORC2 elucidated

Press Release / Medienmitteilung Universität Basel 
The protein complex mTORC2 controls cellular lipid and carbohydrate metabolism. Researchers from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the ETH Zurich have now succeeded in deciphering the 3D structure of this important protein complex. The...

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New weakness discovered in the sleeping sickness pathogen

Press Release / Medienmitteilung Universität Bern
Trypanosomes are single-celled parasites that cause diseases such as human African sleeping sickness and Nagana in animals. But they are also used in basic research as a model system to study fundamental biological questions. Researchers of the...

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Liver cancer: Lipid synthesis promotes tumor formation

Press Release / Medienmitteilung Universität Basel 
Lipid, also known as fat, is an optimal energy source and an important cell component. Much is required for the rapid and uncontrolled growth of cancer cells. Researchers from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and from the University of...

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