Research
Adolphe Merkle Institute and US researchers partner to develop bio-inspired projects
25.09.2017
Researchers from the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (USA), and the University of Chicago (...
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ERC Grant
2.5 million euros for uncovering the origins of play and games
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...
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Fragmentarium
Historical Jigsaw Puzzle: Digitally piecing together Medieval manuscript fragments.
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...
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Physics
Fribourg Physicists decipher the characteristics of disordered photonic semiconductors
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...
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Biology
New ranking system compares introduced species and their human impact
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...
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Paleontology
The last European Monitor Lizard
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...
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Medicine
New discovery of an age-related diabetes mechanism
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...
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Partnership
The Human-IST Research Center of the University of Fribourg signs a new partnership with Swiss Post
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...
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Cancer
Cancer: two birds with one stone
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...
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