Newsletter February 2025
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February 20, 2025
 
 
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Choosing the best medical treatment with the help of AI
To advance modern medicine, EPFL researchers are developing AI-based diagnostic tools. Their goal is to predict the best treatment a patient should receive.

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As Vice President for Research, Christian Wolfrum strongly champions the further development of medical research at ETH. (Image: Markus Bertschi / ETH Zurich)
Medical research requires cooperation
Medical research needs unresolved issues from clinical practice, says ETH Zurich Vice President Christian Wolfrum. He explains in an interview how collaboration with hospitals can be improved and why ETH Zurich intends to pool its activities in medical research.

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With their new model, Empa researchers can more accurately predict how infectious diseases spread in society. Image: Adobe Stock
Better prediction of epidemics
Empa researchers have developed a mathematical model that is just as easy to use but enables more accurate predictions than the well-known reproduction number R. Their model is based on a reproduction matrix that takes into account the heterogeneity of society.

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Volodymyr M. Korkhov (left) and Richard Kammerer of the Center for Life Sciences at PSI have made important advances towards understanding how botulinum neurotoxin, botox for short, enters our nerve cells. © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Mahir Dzambegovic
How botox enters our cells
Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural changes in botox that are believed to be crucial for its uptake into nerve cells. This could mean that the paralysing effect of this potent neurotoxin could be used more selectively and efficiently in the future, for example in pain therapy.

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Research team taking fish samples in the Langete river using the electrofishing method (Photo: Dario Josi).
Two new fish species discovered in Swiss waters
The public can take part in a survey to decide on the names of two fish species discovered by Bárbara Calegari and her colleagues. The biologist explains how to make the diversity of our waters visible.

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The rare mason bee, Hoplitis villosa, caught on Vivian windthrows. (Photo: Beat Wermelinger)
Windstorms make room for biodiversity
The storm-affected areas in a forest after a windstorm offer unexpected opportunities for insect diversity. This is the finding of a 20-year study by the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL.

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The test satellite is in the air in front of a mountain range (Image : Nicole Davidson / ETH Zürich).
ETH students simulate Venus mission
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