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Gut-brain axis influences multiple sclerosis
A Basel-led international research team with Anne-Kathrin Pröbstel has discovered a connection between the intestinal flora and sites of inflammation in the central nervous system in multiple sclerosis. A specific class of immune cell plays…
2020 Cloëtta Prize awarded to Basel breast cancer researcher Mohamed Bentires-Alj
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Bentires-Alj, who is trained in pharmaceutical sciences, is being honored by the Cloëtta Foundation for his groundbreaking research in the field of breast cancer. His group at the Department of Biomedicine …
Sounds sculpt the brain — well into adolescence
In the research group of Prof. Rinaldi, it could recently be demonstrated, that exposure to frequency sweeps can sculpt the brain for people up to 16 years of age. Previously it was shown that simple sounds can shape the brain and neuronal…
Nicola Aceto’s research group shows that hypoxia triggers the intravasation of clustered circulating tumor cells
Cinzia Donato and colleagues from D-BSSE, DBM, Biozentrum and the University Hospital Basel showed in an article published in Cell Reports that low oxygen levels are responsible for clusters of tumor cells to leave the tumor and enter blood…