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Immune cells discovered in the lungs improve virus defense

Carolyn King and her team have discovered immune cells resident in the lungs that persist long after a bout of flu. Experiments with mice have shown that these helper cells improve the immune response to reinfection by a different strain of…

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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…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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