Bacteria with recording function capture gut health status

“This new method lets us obtain information directly from the gut, without having to disturb intestinal functions”

16-May-2022 - Researchers from ETH Zurich, University Hospital of Bern and the University of Bern have equipped gut bacteria with data logger functionality as a way of monitoring which genes are active in the bacteria. These microorganisms could one day offer a noninvasive means of diagnosing disease or ...

Personalized medicine: Functioning, induced liver cells from skin tissue

These cells can now be used to test therapeutic agents, among other things

06-Dec-2021 - A research group from Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Children's Hospital Zurich - Eleonore Foundation and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has succeeded in taking an important step towards generating personalized, artificial liver cells. For the first time, stem cells ...

Possible new immune therapy target in lung cancer

19-Oct-2017 - A study from Bern University Hospital in collaboration with the University of Bern shows that so-called perivascular-like cells from lung tumors behave abnormally. They not only inadequately support vascular structures, but also may actively modulate the inflammatory and immune response. These ...

Guidelines for thyroid disorders in older people outdated

04-Apr-2017 - The standard treatment for a mildly underactive thyroid gland is thyroid hormone substitution with tablets. The results of the yet largest study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, however, question the benefits of this practice. A mildly underactive thyroid gland (subclinical ...

When the brain is high and dry

22-Sep-2016 - Previously, the cause of the illness was often unknown. Neurosurgeons in Bern have now simultaneously found the cause of spontaneous intracranial hypotension and the solution. Fluid protects our brains and spinal cords. If it is lost and can no longer be reproduced, the brain is literally high ...

Mother’s intestinal microbes strengthen newborn babies

21-Mar-2016 - Mother’s intestinal microbes prepare her baby for life outside the womb. Swiss scientists found out how it works. The birth of a newborn baby is the ultimate life-event. Babies leave the sterile and sheltered environment of the womb and enter a world teeming with bacteria. After birth all body ...