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the molecular mechanisms

of health and disease

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and postdocs

We work on biological

mechanisms that enable

biomedical application

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Studying the understudied in human biology: a chat with Margherita Yayoi Turco

Margherita Yayoi Turco is FMI’s newest group leader, leading a team of researchers who will investigate how the placenta develops and works together with the mother’s uterus during early pregnancy. She talks about her fascination with conservation biology, why 3D clusters of placental cells are important for understanding early pregnancy in people — and how she ended up featured in one of the world’s top lifestyle magazines.

Eccellenza Fellowship for Friedemann Zenke

Susan Gasser receives honorary doctorate from the University of Fribourg

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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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Functional implications of body temperature-controlled alternative splicing: from cancer to antiviral immunity

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Developmental dynamics of the epigenome and methods to find relevant regulatory motifs

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Sucrose gradient chromatin enrichment for quantitative proteomics analysis in budding yeast.

Challa K, Seebacher J, Gasser SM

H3K9me selectively blocks transcription factor activity and ensures differentiated tissue integrity.

Methot SP, Padeken J, Brancati G, Zeller P, Delaney CE, Gaidatzis D, Kohler H, van Oudenaarden A, Großhans H, Gasser SM

Single-molecule mRNA and translation imaging in neurons.

Mitchell J, Chao JA

Biochem Soc Trans

Organoids in image-based phenotypic chemical screens.

Lukonin I, Zinner M, Liberali P

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