Research Instrumentation Facility Cutting-edge research requires the ability to quickly adopt, or rapidly innovate and develop novel devices and technology - from simple mechanical gadgets to sophisticated multi-sensory…

Endurance training is beneficial. Regular workouts not only improve physical fitness and well-being, but also trigger profound muscle remodeling. This is reflected in typical training effects: muscles fatigue less quickly,…

SEAL Technology The innovative gene therapy approach (called SEAL technology), developed by Prof. Markus Rüegg and Prof. Peter Yurchenco and their teams over the past 20 years, overcomes the lack of laminin-α2 in muscle…

The cross-border commuter May 2017 Borders are not an obstacle for her, they exist to be crossed. Kathrin Thedieck has lived at open borders since her childhood. This has shaped her self-image as a European. The fact that…

Look into my eyes… May 2017 Tobias Pauli looks deeply into people’s eyes every day. It’s his job. He is a practicing ophthalmologist and even after so many years, their beauty does not cease to fascinate him. Already during…

The abundance and diversity of viruses on our planet is unimaginable. It is estimated that there are about a trillion virus particles on each grain of sand. Many viruses are still waiting to be discovered. The majority of…

Imagine the cell’s nucleus as a bank vault protected by a highly sophisticated security system: the nuclear pore complex (NPC). Only proteins carrying the correct “key” – specialized transport factors – are granted exclusive…

“The closure of this financing round and the successful recruitment of 545 patients in our first clinical study at the University Hospital Basel this year is a huge success”, states Marija Plodinec, CEO of ARTIDIS. “We are…

CV of Prof. Dr. Jean Pieters ORCID 0000-0002-5284-9757 Nationality: Dutch Positions: Since 2002 Professor of Biochemistry, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland 2000 – 2002 Permanent Member, Basel Institute for…

Many distinguished scientists who collaborated with Erich Nigg in his laboratories in Zurich, Lausanne, Geneva, Munich or Basel, or work in the same field as Erich Nigg, are invited to give a talk at the symposium. The…