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In May 2019, four new pilot projects and one workshop were granted by the partnership. Pilot projects explore the feasibility of a new (high-risk) approach or research path and have duration of one year. The […]

Yaroslav Sych from the Helmchen group at the Brain Research Institute of UZH has developed a method to measure brain-wide calcium dynamics with miniaturized arrays of optical fibers. In their paper, published in Nature Methods, […]

Having trouble deciding which part of your mouse brain you need to image? Why not monitor activity across the entire brain? The new paper by Prof. Daniel Razansky and colleagues shows exciting optoacoustic methods to […]

Heart defects are the most common birth defects. They cause neurodevelopmental problems in affected children, including problems with communication and speech. Andras Jakab and the Research Group Heart and Brain at the Children’s hospital showed […]

What can specific anxiety do to the developing brain? This question was asked by PD Dr. Karin Kucian and colleagues from the University Children’s Hospital. In their Nature Translational Psychiatry paper they report the remarkable […]

Members of the UZH research community have joined hands to exchange information on animal experimentation licenses. They have set up the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) community, in which principle researchers can learn from each other’s […]

Cocaine is often cut with the animal anti-worming agent levamisole, which is known to induce adverse side effects on blood cells. Prof. Boris Quednow, Matthias Vonmoos and colleagues have now shown that the combination of […]

New research shows that different areas in the cortex are involved in short-term memory. Importantly, the location depends on behavioral strategy. Even though the different brain areas keep distinct relevant information in memory, they can […]

New research sheds light on the involvement of B cells in the pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The study led by Roland Martin and Mireia Sospedra shows that T cell interactions with B cells drive […]

What makes a leader? A new study from the Department of Economics examined the behavior and neurobiology underlying leadership preferences and found that individuals who showed less “responsibility aversion” had higher leadership scores. Despite the […]