D-BSSE News

The new BSS research building in Basel and the GLC in the centre of Zurich are now ready for occupation. The construction work took longer than planned, but the time has finally come: staff from the BSSE, HEST and ITET departments have begun to move in.

The ETH Zurich annual report for 2022 is out! For the first time it has been published in digital form, providing an interactive tour through the different areas of the university, as well as describing how ETH functions and the contribution it makes to Swiss society.

Two ETH researchers argue whether researchers should get involved in political discussions. One of the two: Nicola Nuti, D-BSSE doctoral student.

Drugs need to be safe - and in the case of pregnant women, they must also be safe for the unborn child. Researchers around D-BSSE professor Andreas Hierlemann have developed a cell culture test to detect substances that are directly or indirectly harmful to embryos. Read the full article featured in the current ETH Global magazine.

Martin Ackermann steps down as head of the Swiss National Covid-​19 Science Task Force. Tanja Stadler succeeds him in this responsible position. In this ETH podcast episode both ETH professors talk about what the pandemic taught them about the intersection of science and politics, how they cope with being people of public interest and also about how they hope the task force will become redundant in the future, even though the virus remains.

A research team led by the University of Basel and ETH Zurich has identified a novel SARS-​CoV-2 variant that has spread widely across Europe in recent months, according to an un-​peer-reviewed preprint released this week.