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…
Thin Sectioning Application To determine the ultrastructure of whole tissues and cells at ~2nm resolution by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Method Tissues or cells are chemically fixed, dehydrated, embedded in resin…
Exploring new horizons November 2016 Christian Sengstag had never imagined that he would one day do anything other than research. But then he was presented with a fait accompli: His research institute was to be closed down.…
Testimonial Victoire Tribout EPFL Lausanne, Research Group Sebastian Hiller Where do you come from and what are you studying? I grew up in Paris and now I study in Lausanne in the French part of Switzerland. I have just…
The research group of Markus Affolter is investigating the growth of the wings of the fruit fly Drosophila to understand which processes control organ development and growth. Proteins that control such growth processes are…
Cell Sorting Guidelines General information High-speed cell sorting can produce aerosols that may present a health hazard to facility members and users. The guidelines are designed to protect the users and staff of the FACS…
Evolution of viruses and bacteria We want to understand the dynamics of evolution and the forces that drive it. Evolution of plants and animals tend to happen over centuries of even longer time-scales. Microbial organisms,…
Surface tension: the battle for bacterial supremacy at the human urothelial interface Despite its initial appearance as a straightforward bacterial infection, urinary tract infection (UTI) presents a perplexing challenge, as…
How to follow your passion for science while living with cerebral palsy Dr. Ilya Smolensky graduated from Saint Petersburg State University, PhD at the I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry.…
LAMA2-related muscular dystrophy (LAMA2 MD; also called MDC1A) Congenital muscular dystrophies (CMDs) are a group of genetic muscle diseases with onset at birth or very early infancy. The more than 30 known forms of these…
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