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Dec 04, 2019

Safeguarding one-way traffic

Animal development is a unidirectional process that steers undifferentiated cells of the early embryo into specialized cell types such as brain, muscle or skin cells. Once differentiated, there is almost no way back. A notable exception is the de-differentiation of mature into immature cell types during injured tissue regeneration. It is unknown if the reversal of cellular specialization proceeds along the same path used by natural development – in reverse direction – or along distinct paths. The Betschinger group has now uncovered ... Read more

Nov 18, 2019

Prisca Liberali becomes an EMBO Young Investigator
Nov 11, 2019

In remembrance of Max Burger

About the FMI

The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), based in Basel, Switzerland, is a world-class biomedical research institute, affiliated with the University of Basel and the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.

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New Video - FMI group leader Charisios Tsiairis

What can microscopic aquatic creatures teach us about growing new body parts?

150 years of DNA discovery

Did you know that it’s our name giver – Friedrich Miescher – who first discovered DNA/nucleic acid 150 years ago?

National Future Day 2019 at the FMI

See some photos from the event (which took place on November 14, 2019)

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Dec 16, 2019 - 09:30

Measuring chromosomal interactions in living cells

  Thesis Presentation - Josef Redolfi
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Dec 16, 2019 - 13:30

LINE1 mediated transcriptional plasticity in human T lymphocytes

  Seminar - Beatrice Bodega, Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare (INGM), Milano, Italy
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Dec 19, 2019 - 15:00

Transient and heterogeneous YAP1 activity drives self-organization in intestinal organoid development

  Thesis Presentation - Urs Mayr
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Nov 29, 2019

Zfp281 orchestrates interconversion of pluripotent states by engaging Ehmt1 and Zic2.

Mayer D, Stadler MB, Rittirsch M, Hess D, Lukonin I, Winzi M, Smith A, Buchholz F, Betschinger J

EMBO J
Nov 01, 2019

Surrogate Gradient Learning in Spiking Neural Networks: Bringing the Power of Gradient-based optimization to spiking neural networks

Neftci Emre O, Mostafa Hesham, Zenke Friedemann

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
Nov 01, 2019

Model systems for regeneration: Hydra.

Vogg MC, Galliot B, Tsiairis CD

Development
Nov 01, 2019

Adaptive disinhibitory gating by VIP interneurons permits associative learning.

Krabbe S, Paradiso E, d'Aquin S, Bitterman Y, Courtin J, Xu C, Yonehara K, Markovic M, Müller C, Eichlisberger T, Gründemann J, Ferraguti F, Lüthi A

Nat Neurosci

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