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What holds the world together? (Science Switzerland series)

This content was published on Sep 30, 2008 Felicitas Pauss’s job is to find out what holds the world together. She’s a professor at the Federal Institute for Technology in Zurich, and a project leader at Cern, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory on the French/Swiss border. The Austrian scientist is leading an experiment using the new Hadron Collider, to recreate the…

Switzerland looks to its reputation

This content was published on Sep 29, 2008 These were two of the findings of an international image study rating 50 countries, which put Switzerland in eighth position overall – three places lower than in the same study in 2005. Presence Switzerland (PRS), the official Swiss body whose job is to convey an “authentic image” of the country, published the comments of the…

Skin graft progress gives hope to burn victims

This content was published on Sep 29, 2008 They work inside the Paediatric Burn Centre at Zurich University Children Hospital – the first of its kind in Switzerland which treats around 400 young burns victims each year. The suffering of young patients at the centre is often great as some have more than 50 per cent burns. “Fifty to 60 per cent of…

Computers help the fight against Alzheimers

This content was published on Sep 25, 2008 Members of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) unfurled a roll containing the descriptions of all 20,325 known human proteins outside Bern cathedral on Wednesday, to mark the SIB’s tenth anniversary. “Bioinformatics has revolutionised life sciences in the past ten years,” SIB head Ron Appel told swissinfo. “The publication of research results or databases in…

Psychiatrist moots violence screening at school

This content was published on Sep 23, 2008 But his controversial ideas for early detection have been criticised by other mental health professionals. “I get the feeling: ‘Wake up people, it’s time to think about it,'” youth psychiatrist Hans-Christoph Steinhausen, a retired professor from Zurich University told swissinfo. “We do get terrible referrals now for severely delinquent behaviour,” he said. “We see it…

Diabetes researcher proves the sceptics wrong

This content was published on Sep 22, 2008 He was the first Swiss to be awarded the Novartis Prize in Diabetes, the top honour in this field, at a recent congress in Rome. But, as he tells swissinfo, it has taken a while for his idea to be accepted. Type 2 – which affects 90 per cent of diabetics and often occurs in…

Give me your blood and I’ll map your origins

This content was published on Sep 21, 2008 A team of Swiss and American researchers used DNA to predict the geographic origins of individuals from a sample of Europeans, creating a genetic map with a remarkable degree of accuracy – often to within a few hundred kilometres. By analysing single-letter DNA differences in the genomes of 1,387 Europeans, experts could tell a Brit…

Cern suffers setback with its mammoth machine

This content was published on Sep 20, 2008 The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) announced the news just 24 hours after saying its Large Hadron Collider was back in business after repairs to a transformer. Cern spokesman James Gillies said a sector of the 27-km tunnel containing the LHC would now have to be warmed up well above absolute zero degrees Celsius…

Robotic surgeons pose challenges for society

This content was published on Sep 20, 2008 Speakers warned that the technological revolution could meet the same problems as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) unless governments and other interested parties formed long term strategies. The speed at which such life changing inventions are being developed was compared to a new world wide web being created every two years. The subject was discussed at…

Restoring lost floodplains in eastern Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 18, 2008

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