30 Sep 2022

Department of Biomedicine Newsletter No. 2

We are very happy to present the second issue of the DBM newsletter. We wish you a pleasant and enjoyable reading.

21 Sep 2022 / News, Research

Researchers turn cancer cells into less harmful cell types (Bentires-Alj Lab)

Cancer cells resemble stem cells in being extremely adaptable. University of Basel researchers have identified compounds that artificially mature breast cancer cells of the highly aggressive triple negative subtype and convert them to a…

16 Sep 2022 / News, Research, People

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Josef Bischofberger is an expert in Brain plasticity and Learning and Memory.

30 Aug 2022 / News, Research

Insufficient insulin processing leads to overweight (Donath Lab)

Overweight increases the risk of an imbalance in sugar metabolism and even of diabetes. Our research group led by Dr. Daniel Zeman-Meier has now shown the opposite is true as well: deficits in the body’s insulin production contribute to…

26 Aug 2022 / News, Research

A high-throughput drug screen reveals means to differentiate triple-negative breast cancer (Bentires-Alj Lab)

A study published by the Bentires-Alj Lab reveals that PLK1 inhibitors induce differentiation in triple-negative breast cancer.