Volodymyr M. Korkhov (left) and Richard Kammerer of the Center for Life Sciences at PSI have made important advances towards understanding how botulinum neurotoxin, botox for short, enters our nerve cells.
Volodymyr M. Korkhov (left) and Richard Kammerer of the Center for Life Sciences at PSI have made important advances towards understanding how botulinum neurotoxin, botox for short, enters our nerve cells. © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Mahir Dzambegovic
11.02.2025
•Health Innovation
•6 min

How botox enters our cells

Researchers at PSI have identified structural changes of the bacterial neurotoxin botox that are important for its uptake into nerve cells. This finding could allow a more targeted use of botox in medicine.

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Roger Schibli
If the hypothesis with a drug proves to be true, then patients with prostate cancer could be treated more effectively in the future, believes Roger Schibli, Head of the PSI Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences (CRS). © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus Fischer
07.02.2025
•Health Innovation
•7 min

New approaches to cancer treatment

The ETH/PHRT-funded clinical studies “RAPID 01” and “PROGNOSTICS” have successfully started recruiting patients. 

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Roger Schibli
If the hypothesis with a drug proves to be true, then patients with prostate cancer could be treated more effectively in the future, believes Roger Schibli, Head of the PSI Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences (CRS). © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Markus Fischer
Auf dem Weg zur lichtgesteuerten Medizin
24.10.2024
•Health Innovation
•11 min

On the way to light-controlled medicine

PSI researchers have elucidated the structure of special photoreceptors.

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22.07.2024
•Health Innovation
•6 min

Breast cancer classification using AI

Researchers at PSI and MIT are developing a new approach, which combines imaging and artificial intelligence to improve the staging of breast cancer.

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PSI Center for Life Sciences

Tracing the secrets of life: The PSI Center for Life Sciences is pursuing research in the areas of structural biology, bioimaging and radiopharmacy.

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Dr. Chiara Favaretto has been honored with the Alavi-Mandell Award

Dr. Chiara Favaretto has been honored with the Alavi-Mandell Award 2024

We congratulate Dr. Chiara Favaretto for the excellent research work she did during her time at the Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences.

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