Digital twins – getting to the heart of the matter
The patient is experiencing auricular fibrillation. Her medication is having only a limited effect. Could medical intervention help or would the team of doctors be better to hold off? What types of treatment...
Extreme networking
The largest living organism in the world is not a blue whale, an elephant or a sequoia tree, but a fungus. With its underground mycelium, a single honey fungus in Oregon’s Malheur National Forest covers...
microRNA – a small RNA with a big impact
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 Since their discovery in 1993, microRNAs have been the subject of intensive research due to their fundamental role in gene regulation and are considered promising...
A small donation making a big impact
Hygiene and laboratory supplies arrive in GambiaIn many countries around the world, medical care is very much a scarce commodity. This makes initiatives such as the Kora Heritage, Health and Cultural Centre...
Siloxanes
New fibres urgently wanted! You can finally enjoy swimming, hiking and go camping without a guilty conscience – at a laboratory of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa),...
