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FriMat Day 2024

 

 We are pleased to announce that our annual FriMat Day Conference will take place on Friday, December 6, 2024, from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM in the Chemistry auditorium PER10 0.013

 The call for abstracts for both poster and oral presentations is now open.

 Please send your abstract to Maja Ivanovic (maja.ivanovic@unifr.ch) by November 15, 2024, specifying whether an oral or a poster presentation.

 We look forward to seeing you all on December 6.

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BRIDGING IN VITRO AND HUMAN STUDIES

Predicting human lung responses to solvents

Everyday cleaning and painting products may be quietly straining our lungs, new research from Unisanté, the Lausanne University Center for Primary Care and Public Health, and the Adolphe Merkle Institute…

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HISTORY

Ancient genome identify the Early Middle Ages as a melting pot

School textbooks teach us that waves of “barbarian hordes” hastened the fall of the Western Roman Empire. A team of German and Swiss scientists has just shown genetically that the picture is more complicated.…

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ANTIBIOTICS

Resistance genes that boost the pathogenic potential of bacteria

Resistance to antibiotics leads to nearly one million deaths worldwide each year. Combating that resistance is naturally a global health priority. Scientists from the University of Fribourg, with help…

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