12.08.2024
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers have modified bacteria with UV light to produce more cellulose. The basis for this is a new approach, which generates thousands of bacterial variants and helps select the most productive.
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Diagnostics
Detecting cancerous mutations
17.10.2024
Cancer causes mutations in cellular DNA. Detecting these mutations in a patient's blood enables the most appropriate and effective anti-cancer treatments to be prescribed. However, detection is only possible…
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Publications
Nanotechnology prize for NCCR alum
19.06.2023
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials alum Ivana Domljanovic is one of the 2023 Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Award winners. The five prizes recognize excellent scientific first-author publications in the field of nanotechnology…
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Early detection
Bioinspired nanosensors to track down cancer
17.01.2023
For several cancers, detection at an early stage translates into more effective treatments and a better survival rate. NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at the University of Fribourg have developed…
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Equal opportunities
Highlighting women researchers
03.09.2021
To celebrate Women's Day 2021 and the 50th anniversary of women's right to vote in Switzerland, all 22 National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs) across Switzerland have been working together to…
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Grants
Major fellowships for NCCR scientists
28.02.2020
Two NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials post-doctoral researchers have been awarded prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships. Philip Scholten and Samet Kocabey will investigate degradable plastics and cancer…
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Silk lined
Delivering cancer vaccines to the heart of immune cells
12.06.2018
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers from the universities of Geneva and Fribourg, as well colleagues from Munich, and Bayreuth, in collaboration with the German company AMSilk, have developed spider…
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Under pressure
Attacking viruses with nanoparticles
19.12.2017
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) have created nanoparticles that attract viruses and, using the pressure resulting from the binding process,…
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