04.09.2017

Professor Véronique Dasen has been awarded the most prestigious European grant for a study dealing with play and games in classical antiquity. An exciting topic which could shed li...

30.08.2017

The leading manuscript libraries of Europe and North America have been participating for the last three years in developing the digital research platform Fragmentarium. This new di...

24.08.2017

The research team of Prof. Frank Scheffold and Dr. Luis Salvador Froufe-Pérez have been successful in deciphering and systematically classifying the complete optical characteristic...

31.07.2017

Where is the best place to live? What is the happiest nation? Which country has the most suicides? Rankings and comparisons of every kind are very popular. Under the leadership of...

13.06.2017

New fossils from Athens show that the European monitor lizards died out significantly later than previously assumed. This is the conclusion reached by researchers from the Universi...

06.06.2017

Damage to the pancreas plays a central role in age-related diabetes. Research by Dr Yuyan Xiong and Prof. Zhihong Yang now explains the mechanism by which this damage occurs and so...

23.05.2017

Thanks to this new partnership between Swiss Post and the University of Fribourg, the Human-IST Research Center will be extending its research in the area of new cutting-edge inter...

22.05.2017

Research carried out in the Department of Medicine at the University of Fribourg on therapies which target blood vessels supplying blood to a tumour has killed two birds with one s...

05.05.2017

Zebra fish have unsuspected regenerative powers: they are capable of replacing a heart muscle or an amputated fin with a perfect copy. And what is more, even though there are impor...