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Scientists, researchers, video journalists, scholars, communicators, laypeople interested in science - you are invited to submit your webvideo on science and research before 30 June 2018. The video should be entertaining, scientifically sound and easy to understand.

In order to protect your brainwork, the IT Security team of ETH Zurich launched the new campagne "Spot Phising Emails". Email is a popular form of communication used every day. But an inbox can also be a point of entry for risks unseen. Scammers often try to swindle confidential data via email. Discover how you can detect such tricks and protect your personal information.

The biophysics group of the D-BSSE together with researchers from Harvard Medical School and Max-Planck-Society describe that the human protein tau interacts with brain lipids where it aggregates in a cation-dependent and reversible manner. Aggregation of tau relates to neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s. The study appeared in Nano Letters on 12 April.

Researchers working with D-BSSE Professor Martin Fussenegger have developed an early warning system for the four most common types of cancer. Should a tumour develop, a visible mole will appear on the skin.

The Japanese researcher holds an EMBO long-term fellowship to support his work on the production of human blood cells in Professor Timm Schroeder's Cell Systems Dynamics Group.

At ETH Zurich, people from different cutlural backgrounds and in many varied roles and disciplines study, research and work together. Diversity is one of the strengths of the technical university - and at the same time a challenge: wherever different people come together, there has to be mutual respect. Find the Code of Conduct.

At ETH Zurich, people from different cultural backgrounds and in many varied roles and disciplines study, research and work together. Diversity is one of the strengths of the technical university - and at the same time a challenge: wherever different people come together, there has to be mutual respect. Find the Code of Conduct.

D-BSSE Professor Martin Fussenegger is one of them. For the Basel biotechnologist working on synthetic gene circuits for treating metabolic disorders this is the second ERC Advanced Grant.

From 25-29 June 2018, D-BSSE Professor Niko Beerenwinkel together with Professor Caroline Uhler, MIT, and colleagues from the University of Bern, the Max Planck Institute Leipzig and UC Berkeley are organising a summer school on "Graphical models: From mathematical foundations to biological applications", to be held at D-BSSE in Basel. Registration is open until 18 April.

At the start of the epidemic in West Africa, the Ebola virus did not change as rapidly as thought at the time. Researchers from D-BSSE and the University of Oxford explain why scientists misjudged the mutation rate at the time.