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Faculty of Science and Medicine

At the Faculty of Science and Medicine of the University of Fribourg, we teach the next generation of scientists and doctors, with a particular focus on life sciences, biomedicine, and nanomaterials. We train them to face the future challenges of our society.

INFORMATIC

A More Trustworthy Way to Visualize Complex Data

A new method «EmbedOR» uses geometry to keep clusters in data intact where popular tools quietly fail.

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IMMUNE SYSTEM

New bacterial weapon against the immune system

University of Fribourg researchers discover that hydrogen cyanide, produced by dangerous bacteria, helps the bacteria evade the patients' immune defenses.

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NEUROSCIENCES

Neurons that explain why no two movements are ever the same

Every time we reach for a cup of coffee, the movement is never quite the same. A team of neuroscientists at the University of Fribourg (Unifr) has shown that this variability relies on neurons that allow…