12.08.2024
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers 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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Diagnostics
Detecting cancerous mutations
17.10.2024
Cancer causes mutations in cellular DNA. Detecting these mutations in a patient's blood enables the most appropriate and effective anti-cancer treatments to be prescribed. However, detection is only possible…
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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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Biomimetic
Membrane technology innovation could impact multiple industries
06.06.2024
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers, together with international collaborators, have pioneered a novel method for creating thin, energy-converting membranes that mimic the structure and function of…
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Rigid to rubbery
Improving the mechanical properties of elastomers
19.04.2024
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at Lausanne's Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) are targeting the next generation of soft actuators and robots with an elastomer-based ink for 3D printing objects…
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Recycling
Plastics soon to be more easily degradable?
15.04.2024
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at the Adolphe Merkle Institute and the Technical University of Darmstadt, have developed a new type of polymer - the main component of plastics - that is more easily…
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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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Building blocks
Creating nanoscale structures
30.10.2023
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers have developed a method to build nanostructures by combining materials in such a way that these retain their unique specificities, while potentially unlocking new…
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