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The companies Givaudan, B¨¹hler and Nestl¨¦ made it possible to create a new professorship in the field of food process engineering and nutrition. Patrick R¨¹hs has been appointed to this promising professorship.

In the Human Cell Atlas, researchers around the world combine data on all cell types in the human body. A team of scientists led by ETH Zurich has now expanded this atlas with data on gene activity in nerve tissue. The researchers obtained their data using organoids, which are miniature tissues grown in cell culture.

Pui Man Kam and colleagues at ETH Zurich have created a global, open-source system to forecast how many people will be displaced by tropical cyclones.

Climate change is intensifying natural hazards in many mountain areas, posing particular challenges for the Alpine region. These are the findings of a study coordinated by glaciologist Myl¨¨ne Jacquemart and permafrost expert Samuel Weber from ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL.?

Insects and spiders are crucial for food webs in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Their decline reduces the food supply for birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals, resulting in a scarcity of essential fatty acids

The chemical and pharmacognostic collection D-CHAB contains 17 fabric pattern books by the Swiss textile manufacturer and chemist Adolf Jenny-Tr¨¹mpy.

Guided by D-BSSE researchers Niko Beerenwinkel and Tanja Stadler and other steering group members from the University of Basel, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) opens a dedicated centre for computational pathogen research and surveillance.

With her concepts mathematician Svitlana Mayboroda has not only helped to save energy with new semiconductors. She also wants to find out what is behind complicated cosmic objects like the Orion Nebula.

Nicolas Gruber, Professor for Environmental Physics at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Roger Revelle Medal by the American Geophysical Union.