12.08.2024
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at ETHZ have modified bacteria with UV light to produce more cellulose. The basis for this is a new approach, which generates thousands of bacterial variants and helps select the most productive.
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Funding success
ERC grant for NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials PI
18.06.2025
Francesco Stellacci, Principal Investigator at the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Bio-Inspired Materials and Professor at EPFL, has been awarded a highly coveted ERC Advanced Grant for…
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Organoid-on-a-chip
New model to help fight stomach infections
25.03.2025
An innovative laboratory model that mimics the human stomach lining could help better understand how common bacteria cause infections that can lead to serious conditions such as gastric cancer. Researchers…
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Diagnostik
Krebsmutationen im Blut nachweisen
17.10.2024
Krebs verursacht Mutationen in der zellulären DNA. Wenn man diese Mutationen im Blut der Patienten nachweisen kann, kann man die am besten geeigneten und wirksamsten Krebstherapien verschreiben. Der Nachweis…
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X-ray nanotomography
Unlocking the secrets of nanoscale networks
23.07.2024
An international team of researchers, including from the NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials, has used advanced imaging techniques to achieve a high-resolution three-dimensional visualization of topological defects…
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Recycling
Gibt es bald leichter abbaubare Kunststoffe?
15.04.2024
Forschende des Adolphe Merkle Instituts haben in Zusammenarbeit mit der Technischen Universität Darmstadt eine neue Art von Kunststoffen entwickelt, die leichter abbaubar sind als die sonst üblichen. In…
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Emulating nature
Synthesizing artificial cells
04.12.2023
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers have published a groundbreaking study in the journal Nature Chemistry on the development of artificial cells using synthetic materials. These cells could represent…
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