Mechano-Genomics: News and Highlights

02.05.2024

EMBO workshop on Nuclear Mechano-Genomics

The EMBO-workshop on Nuclear Mechano-Genomics taking place from April 16 to April 19, 2024 in Sardinia, Italy, was a great success.

14.12.2023

•Health Innovation

•8 min

Enabling early detection of cancer

Medical Science

Diagnostics

PSI researchers develop a fundamentally new method for early detection of cancer.

G.V. Shivashankar, Leiter des Labors für Biologie im Nanobereich am PSI

28.11.2023

•Health Innovation

•10 min

Reprogramming tissue mechanically

Biology

Medical Science

Scientists at PSI have used mechanical stimuli to turn connective tissue cells into stem-cell-like cells and transplanted these into damaged skin tissue. This speeds up the regeneration of the skin and the healing of wounds.

08.11.2023

•7 min

Grasping diseases by the roots

Biology

Medical Science

Diagnostics

PSI researchers take pictures of cell nuclei using modern high-resolution imaging techniques, employ learning algorithms to comb through these data, and thus can more reliably identify anomalies.

maging biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease

09.12.2022

•7 min

Imaging biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease

Artificial intelligence pinpoints cells indicative of Alzheimer’s disease based on DNA packing in mouse brain images, shows study in Nature Communications

11.10.2022

•Health Innovation

•6 min

Paul Scherrer Institute and Apollo Health Ventures Launch Focal Biosciences

Medical Science

Radiopharmacy

Newly established Focal Biosciences will focus on bringing together leading experts and scientific discoveries to harness cellular reprogramming in the fight against common age-related diseases.

04.02.2021

•Health Innovation

•11 min

"Ultimately, we aim to understand how diseases start in single cells"

Biology

Medical Science

Proton therapy

Imaging and sequencing techniques combined with machine learning offer researchers countless opportunities to look inside cells with greater precision than ever before. G.V. Shivashankar, lab head at PSI, describes how such information can be used to find answers to pressing questions.

09.04.2020

•10 min

Why Covid-19 hits older people especially hard

Medical Science

The older you are, the higher the risk of dying from a coronavirus infection. G. V. Shivashankar, a group leader at PSI and professor at ETH Zurich, now presents an unusual thesis in a publication in Nature Reviews: that the stiffness of cells might play a decisive role in the course of the disease. In this interview, he explains why.