Resistant bacteria can remain in the body for years

“These patients not only repeatedly become ill themselves, they also act as a source of infection for other people”

02-Feb-2024 - Fighting disease-causing bacteria becomes more difficult when antibiotics stop working. People with pre-existing conditions in particular can carry resistant germs and suffer from repeated infections for years, according to a study by the University of Basel and University Hospital ...

More than thirty new species of bacteria discovered in patient samples

“This has led us to assume that it is an emerging pathogen which we need to monitor”

12-Jan-2024 - Unknown germs are a common occurrence in hospitals. Researchers at the University of Basel have spent many years collecting and analyzing them. They have identified many new species of bacteria, some of which are significant for clinical practice. Bacterial infections can be treated more ...

Fighting tumours down to the last cancer cell

Researchers at PSI have developed a new drug that could increase the survival chances of patients with metastatic prostate cancer

06-Jul-2023 - The drug is now being tested on patients in the PROGNOSTICS project. A research consortium consisting of the Paul Scherrer Institute, the University Hospital Basel and ETH Zurich is receiving two million Swiss francs in funding for this project. In Switzerland, about 7100 men are diagnosed with ...

Stress hormones promote breast cancer metastasis

14-Mar-2019 - It has long been thought that stress contributes to cancer progression. Scientists from the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel have deciphered the molecular mechanisms linking breast cancer metastasis with increased stress hormones. In addition, they found that synthetic ...

Narcolepsy, scientists unmask the culprit of an enigmatic disease

21-Sep-2018 - Patients with a rare disease, called narcolepsy, suffer of excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy (brief episodes of loss of muscle tone triggered by emotions). A study published in Nature reports, for the first time, the existence in patients with narcolepsy of autoreactive T lymphocytes ...

Cancer: More targeted use of immunotherapy

12-Jun-2018 - Doctors are increasingly fighting cancer by stimulating patients' immune systems. SNSF-supported researchers have now discovered a method for predicting the likelihood of treatment success. Immunotherapy changes a patient's immune system to allow it to attack cancer cells and either destroy them ...

Researchers succeed in cultivating cartilage from stem cells

19-Apr-2018 - Stable joint cartilage can be produced from adult stem cells originating from bone marrow. This is made possible by inducing specific molecular processes occurring during embryonic cartilage formation, as researchers from the University and University Hospital of Basel report in the scientific ...