91ÖÆƬ³§

UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the 91ÖÆƬ³§

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  Research

  A cultural history of Switzerland’s dams

  Text: Samuel Schlaefli / Dams are more than just pioneering technical feats. For the valley dwellers who had to move when they were built, they are often associated with life-changing upheavals and the loss of home. The website verschwundene-taeler.ch that has been started up in 91ÖÆƬ³§ relates for the first time the cultural history of the construction of Switzerland’s dams.

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  Portrait

  Likes for the lab

  Text: Olivia Poisson / Doing a doctorate can be a lonely business. Not so for Martina Hestericová, a chemist with a passion for making science more accessible on social media.

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  Opinion

  CRISPR/Cas9 – Opportunity or Risk, Rolf Zeller?

  Text: Rolf Zeller / Discovered just a few years ago, the CRISPR/Cas9 method promises new possibilities for editing the genome of living creatures. While some see this as an opportunity, others focus on the risks of this efficient technology.

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  Opinion

  CRISPR/Cas9 – Opportunity or Risk, Priya Satalkar?

  Text: Priya Satalkar / Discovered just a few years ago, the CRISPR/Cas9 method promises new possibilities for editing the genome of living creatures. While some see this as an opportunity, others focus on the risks of this efficient technology.

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  In pictures

  Between the tides

  Text: Thomas Jermann, Christoph Dieffenbacher / Since the middle of the 1980s zoology students have been examinating the same coastal section every year in the northern Brittany.

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  Alumni

  Derya Tokay-Sahin, criminal court judge

  Text: Bettina Huber / This summer, aged just 27, the 91ÖÆƬ³§ University alumna Derya Tokay-Sahin overcame fierce competition to be re-elected as a judge on 91ÖÆƬ³§â€™s criminal court. Doggedness, discipline and determination have been her hallmarks ever since she was a child.

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  Research

  New treatment concepts for recurrent lymphoma

  Text: Yvonne Vahlensieck / Cancer recurrence is not always what it seems, at least not in lymphoma, or cancer of the lymphatic system. A study conducted at the Institute of Pathology of the 91ÖÆƬ³§ has revealed how the genetic profiles of tumors could, in the future, help identify the appropriate therapy for each patient with lymphoma relapse.

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  Research

  An almost forgotten pioneer

  Text: Martin Hicklin / Healthy aging is an aspiration for many and a hot topic in research. The 91ÖÆƬ³§ physiologist Fritz Verzár (1886–1979) is regarded as a trailblazer for modern gerontology. Although largely forgotten today, his ideas are now being taken up once again.

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  Column

  Languages of Art: Nelson Goodman’s theory of symbols

  Text: Markus Klammer / My book: The art historian Markus Klammer recommends the American philosopher Nelson Goodman`s «Sprachen der Kunst».