Bioinspirierte Nanosensoren zur Krebserkennung
17.01.2023
Die Früherkennung und Diagnose von Krebs im Frühstadium verbessert die Wirksamkeit der Behandlung und die Überlebensrate der Betroffenen erheblich. Wissenschaftler der Universität Fribourg haben bioinspirierte…
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Immunotherapy
Tackling aggressive brain cancer
26.09.2022
New NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials WINS Fellow Dr. Flavia Sousa is developing a novel approach to treat a form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma, with a biodegradable microneedle loaded with an RNA nanovaccine…
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Promotion
WINS Fellow awarded PRIMA grant
05.09.2022
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials WINS Fellow Dr. Jessica Clough has been awarded a PRIMA grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The funding will allow her to develop an independent research project…
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Repair
Watching polymers heal
28.04.2021
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at the Adolphe Merkle Institute have developed a method to monitor the healing process of polymers and discovered that a much thicker interphase is required for…
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Pflanzenschutz
Nanopartikel für die Landwirtschaft: Pflanzen stärken ohne Pestizide
14.12.2020
Forscher des Nationale Forschungsschwerpunkt (NFS) Bio-inspirierte Materialien und des Biologiedepartements der Universität Freiburg haben entdeckt, wie bestimmte Siliziumdioxid-Nanopartikel als spurlose,…
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Composite polymers
Narrowing the gap between natural and synthetic materials
24.11.2020
Skin and cartilage are both strong and flexible - properties that are hard to replicate in artificial materials. But a new fabrication process, developed by NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials scientists at EPFL,…
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Gut instinct
Next-gen organoids grow and function like real tissues
16.09.2020
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at Lausanne's Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) have created miniature intestines in a dish that match up anatomically and functionally to the real thing better…
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Health
Major grant for virucide research
17.04.2020
The Werner Siemens Foundation has awarded a CHF 5 million grant to the laboratory of NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials Principal Investigator Francesco Stellacci, funding clinical trials into compounds that…
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