Global warming
In Greenland, global warming is intensifying the runoff of meltwater towards the ocean
17.09.2019
An international team of researchers, including Horst Machguth of the University of Fribourg, has shown that global warming promotes the formation and expansion of of ice slabs emb...
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Cancer
Two types of stem cells as the root cause of breast cancer
10.09.2019
A research team of the Faculty of Science and Medicine of the University of Fribourg has shown that breast cancers comprise not one, but two distinct groups of stem cells - an impo...
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Down Syndrome
Step towards a medical treatment of the deleterious effects of Down syndrome
05.09.2019
A team of researchers at the University of Fribourg has found evidence for a mechanism that contributes to the impaired metabolism of individuals with Down syndrome. Their organism...
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Biologie
Vaccinating the microbiota of plants, a new approach to biological control
09.05.2019
During the next three years, the research groups of Prof. Weisskopf and Dr Falquet of the Department of Biology of the University of Fribourg will be working hand in hand on a very...
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Adolphe Merkle Institute
Polymers to give early warning signs
29.04.2019
Researchers at the University of Fribourg's Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) and Hokkaido University in Japan have developed a method to tailor the properties of stress-indicating mo...
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Adolphe Merkle Institut
A new method to help eradicate malaria
10.04.2019
Researchers at the University of Fribourg's Adolphe Merkle Institute have discovered a novel method to detect the presence of malaria parasites in blood samples. This discovery is...
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Chemistry
Caution: corked! Sensor for cork taint in wine developed
10.04.2019
The presence of the molecule responsible for cork taint in wine can now be clearly identified: with the recently developed sensor even slight traces of the most common wine fault c...
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ERC Advanced Grant
2.5 million funding to help find order among chaos
28.03.2019
The Adolphe Merkle Institute's chair of Soft Matter Physics at the University of Fribourg, Professor Ullrich Steiner, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant by the Eur...
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Geosciences
Ice volume calculated anew
11.02.2019
An international team with researchers of the University of Fribourg has provided a new estimate for the glacier ice volume all around the world, excluding the Greenland and Antarc...
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