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Swine flu jab programme “not chaotic”

This content was published on Nov 9, 2009 The head of the Federal Health Office, Thomas Zeltner, said that there was no chaos and that the programme was on schedule. He was responding to criticism in the media and among some doctors that the national plan was uncoordinated. There have also been concerns that it had taken too long for the authorities to…

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Crumbs! Bird and baguette trip up atom smasher

This content was published on Nov 9, 2009 “There was no shutdown for the machine,” a spokeswoman from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) told swissinfo.ch on Monday. “The bread caused a very small short-circuit and that was it.” A passing bird last week dropped a baguette morsel into a portion of the machine’s power system that sits above ground. That caused…

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The ins and outs of organic farming

This content was published on Nov 9, 2009 The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) in Frick in canton Aargau, founded in 1973, is the oldest and biggest research centre for organic agriculture in the world. It employs about 120 people of different nationalities, and has two partner institutes in Germany and Austria. (swissinfo.ch).

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Science students in Zurich produce low-calorie chocolate

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A career high

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Scientists trot out horse genome

This content was published on Nov 5, 2009 Tosso Leeb from the genetics institute of the VetSuisse Faculty at Bern University said scientists could use this knowledge to understand the genetic aspects of equine physiology and disease – which could also benefit humans. A genome is the complete set of genes – the basic units of heredity – and associated regulatory DNA found…

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Scientists retrace history of ancient scourge

This content was published on Nov 5, 2009 A Swiss-led team of international scientists hopes its study retracing the history of leprosy from ancient Egypt to today can help contribute to the elimination of the debilitating illness, which still persists among the world’s poor. The researchers examined DNA from human remains from different parts of the world, including Brazil, Madagascar, China, Europe and…

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Swine flu outbreak confirmed among army recruits

This content was published on Nov 3, 2009 The defence ministry said it should be assumed that most of the recruits involved are suffering from the pandemic flu. In all, 324 soldiers are currently stationed at the Chur base in eastern Switzerland but a quarantine of all the residents has been ruled out for the moment. The army and the cantonal doctor will…

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Solving the “forensic puzzle” of Srebrenica

This content was published on Nov 2, 2009 The Swiss-backed International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) is using DNA to help survivors track down their murdered relatives to be able to give them a dignified burial. Three thousand plastic bags line metre-high shelves in an ICMP mortuary in the north Bosnian town of Tuzla. Every sack contains bones or bone fragments – all…

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Science students in Zurich produce low-calorie chocolate

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Swine flu outbreak confirmed among army recruits

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