You are likely to lose around one third of your muscle mass over your lifetime. An excessive loss of muscle mass and muscle strength is known as sarcopenia. As life expectancy increases, so does the number of people…

The frequent and sometimes careless use of antibiotics leads to an increasingly rapid spread of resistance. Hospitals are a particular hot spot for this. Patients not only introduce a wide variety of pathogens, which may…

We are constantly exposed to a wide range of sensory stimuli, from loud noises to whispers. In order to efficiently process these diverse stimulus intensities, the brain needs to strike a balance in its responsiveness. An…

25 students from Basel-Stadt and Basel-Land secured one of the few places at the Basel Summer Science Academy 2024 at the Biozentrum. The program was established in 2019 to give high school students insight into the research…

Cells live and survive by taking up proteins, recycling and reusing or degrading them. The proteins are located on the cell surface and are transported from here into the cell’s interior. About 80 percent of these membrane…

Muscular dystrophy is a term used to describe many different muscular diseases caused by genetic defects. To date, there are no treatments available to stop disease progression. In their study, the scientists led by Prof.…

In Switzerland, it is not uncommon for a patient to develop an infection during a hospital stay. One reason for this is insufficient hygiene, as shown recently in a study by the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products,…

ELN: Electronic Lab Notebooks We provide a wiki-based Electronic Lab Notebook solution (ELN-Wiki) to the research groups at the Biozentrum and other life science groups at the University of Basel. The spectrum of digital…

It was only at the beginning of the year that the Biozentrum spin-off Aukera Therapeutics qualified for the BaseLaunch Accelerator program. Now the two young entrepreneurs Dr. Stefan Imseng and Dr. Dritan Liko can add…

Research Group Sebastian Hiller Level of employment / date of entry 100%, starting January 2026 (negotiable) PDF download Intro Proteins must fold correctly to function, and this process is tightly regulated by a network of…