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Andrea Ablasser wins the Leenaards Foundation's 2020 Science Prize

Published:29.06.20 — EPFL Professor Andrea Ablasser shares the Prize with Professor Michel Gilliet from the CHUV. Their project aims to gain insight into the causes and effects of an overactive innate immune system in people with autoimmune diseases.

EPFL lab develops method for designing lower-power circuits

Published:26.06.20 — An EPFL lab, has come up with a new type of logic diagram and related optimization methods, that can be used to design computer chips with a nearly 20% gain in energy efficiency, speed or size. The lab has just entered into a license agreement with Synopsys, a global leader in electronic design automation and chip fabrication software.

A new material for light-matter interactions

Published:25.06.20 — EPFL scientists have coupled a new material with light at the level of a single photon. The achievement opens up prospects for better controlling and understanding the properties of quantum-correlated systems, where theoretical calculations are difficult.

Showcasing reuse principles at a tram depot and sculpture park

Published:25.06.20 — Students from EPFL’s EAST laboratory have installed recycled lights and restrooms at the Bex & Arts sculpture triennial – set to run from 22 June to 18 October – and repurposed parts of a disused tram depot in Bern. Both projects demonstrate the merits of using reclaimed materials.

Swiss federal government officially launches the SwissCovid app

Published:24.06.20 — SwissCovid – a tracing app developed in part by EPFL – is being made available today to the general public, one month after the pilot tests began. The app will be a useful tool in stemming the spread of the disease as the number of cases in Switzerland is back on the rise.

Blocking sugar metabolism slows lung tumour growth

Published:23.06.20 — Treatments that block two sugar-transporting proteins could help slow the growth of lung tumours, new research from EPFL suggests.

Super-resolution microscopy reveals a twist inside of cells

Published:22.06.20 — EPFL biophysicists have developed a high-throughput super-resolution microscope to probe nanoscale structures and dynamics of mammalian cells, showing in unprecedented detail the twists and turns of an organelle important for cell division.