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24.03.2025 Precision medicine

Decoys for Misguided Antibodies Restore Antiviral Immune Defense

An immune system defect makes affected individuals vulnerable to severe viral diseases such as influenza or COVID-19. It is caused by the body's own antibodies, which inhibit important defense proteins known as type I interferons. Newly generated “decoy molecules” can intercept these autoantibodies in cell culture experiments and restore the immune defense.

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18.03.2025 Animal research and 3R

Efficient Development of Drugs with Fewer Mice

With a novel technology, around 25 antibodies can now be tested simultaneously in a single mouse. This should speed up the R&D pipeline for new drugs and hugely reduce the number of animals required.

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12.03.2025 Autoimmune diseases

Promising Active Ingredient for Lupus Therapy

In lupus, the immune system attacks its own structures, causing inflammation and organ damage. A UZH study shows that natural active ingredient gluconolactone could offer a more targeted therapy.

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11.03.2025 Birth rate

Swiss Women Had More Children at Start of Coronavirus Pandemic

A UZH study on the impact of pandemics on fertility reveals an unexpected increase in births during the COVID-19 pandemic, contrasting with the significant decline during previous ones.

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04.03.2025 Personality in an Intercultural Context

African Young Adults Balance Self-Determination and Communalism

A new study from the University of Zurich shows that the cultural influence on the transition to adulthood in sub-Saharan Africa is more communal and less self-centered than in Western contexts.

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03.03.2025 Psychiatric research

ChatGPT on the couch: relaxation for stressed AI

Distressing news and traumatic stories can cause anxiety – not only in humans, but also in AI language models. Researchers have now shown that an elevated “anxiety level” in GPT-4 can be “calmed down” using mindfulness-based relaxation techniques.

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27.02.2025 Astrophysics

Young Star Clusters Give Birth to Rogue Planetary-Mass Objects

How do rogue planetary-mass objects form? An international team of astronomers used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic objects are linked to the chaotic dynamics of young star clusters.

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26.02.2025 Psychiatry

Schizophrenia is Reflected in the Brain Structure

The symptoms of schizophrenia vary greatly from person to person. A new study shows how these differences manifest themselves in the structure of the brain.

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25.02.2025 Innovation Economics

Rising Wages Drive Innovation in Automation Technology

A new UZH study shows for the first time that higher minimum wages for low-skill jobs drive firms to develop automation technologies. Rising wages for high-skill labor, in contrast, can hamper this effect.

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19.02.2025 Glaciology

Melting Glaciers Increase Loss of Freshwater Resources and Rise Global Sea Levels

The melting ice from glaciers worldwide is leading to an increased loss of regional freshwater resources. Since the year 2000, glaciers have been losing 273 billion tons of ice annually.

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13.02.2025 Medical microbiology

Curbing the Global Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Cases of bacterial sexually transmitted infections are on the rise worldwide. The University of Zurich has now developed a new method for genome sequencing and discovered a previously unrecognized strain of chlamydia

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04.02.2025 Geriatric Medicine

Omega-3s Can Slow Down Aging Process

A daily intake of one gram of omega-3s can slow down biological aging by up to four months, according to an analysis of clinical data from the international DO-HEALTH study led by the University of Zurich. For the first time, epigenetic clocks were used to measure the aging process.

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30.01.2025

Martin Nellen Appointed New Head of Communications at UZH

Martin Nellen has been appointed as the new Head of Communications at the University of Zurich (UZH). He will take up his role on 1 March 2025, succeeding Beat Müller, who has been heading the office on an interim basis since February 2024.

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30.01.2025 Environment and climate

Climate Change Increases Risk of Successive Natural Hazards in the Himalayas

An international research team reconstructed the Sikkim flood disaster in the Himalayas in October 2023 that triggered a deadly and devastating 20-meter flood wave.

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20.01.2025 Interdisciplinary research

Global Trust in Science Remains Strong

Led by UZH and ETH Zurich, a team of 241 researchers conducted the largest post-pandemic study of trust in science, societal expectations and public views on research priorities.

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15.01.2025 Computational Linguistics

Automatic Speech Recognition on Par with Humans in Noisy Conditions

Current ASR systems achieve remarkable accuracy and may even surpass human performance. While they need to be trained on an incredible amount of data, humans acquire comparable skills in less time.

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08.01.2025 Zoo animals

Rethinking Population Management in Zoos

Until now, zoos used contraception to avoid surplus animals. Scientists argue for preserving breeding populations and raising awareness of conservation challenges by allowing animals to reproduce naturally and culling surplus animals.

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Jahresauswahl

Article list Media Releases

Decoys for Misguided Antibodies Restore Antiviral Immune Defense

Efficient Development of Drugs with Fewer Mice

Promising Active Ingredient for Lupus Therapy

Swiss Women Had More Children at Start of Coronavirus Pandemic

African Young Adults Balance Self-Determination and Communalism

ChatGPT on the couch: relaxation for stressed AI

Young Star Clusters Give Birth to Rogue Planetary-Mass Objects

Schizophrenia is Reflected in the Brain Structure

Rising Wages Drive Innovation in Automation Technology

Melting Glaciers Increase Loss of Freshwater Resources and Rise Global Sea Levels

Curbing the Global Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Omega-3s Can Slow Down Aging Process

Martin Nellen Appointed New Head of Communications at UZH

Climate Change Increases Risk of Successive Natural Hazards in the Himalayas

Global Trust in Science Remains Strong

Automatic Speech Recognition on Par with Humans in Noisy Conditions

Rethinking Population Management in Zoos

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