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At 37, Maryna Viazovska becomes the second woman in history to receive the prestigious #FieldsMedal🏅, widely described as the Nobel Prize of #Mathematics. #FieldsMedal actu.epfl.ch/news/an-epfl-ma…
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Congratulations to our very own @AnnaKiesenhofer on this amazing gold medal!!!🥇What a race! #Tokyo2020 #OlympicGames
Anna Kiesenhofer of #AUT takes #gold in the #CyclingRoad women’s road race on her #Olympics debut!
#StrongerTogether | @tokyo2020 | @UCI_cycling
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the Federal Council appointed Anna Fontcuberta i Morral – @i_morral – as the new president of EPFL. She will succeed Martin Vetterli on 1 January 2025.
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We would like to express compassion for everyone who is directly or indirectly affected by the current events in Iran. (1/2)
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Breakthrough: patients able to control previously paralyzed leg muscles without electrical stimulation. go.epfl.ch/d9L48 #epflSV @gcourtine #neurotechnology #paralysis #paraplegia #neuroscience
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Scientists at EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center & @DeepMind have developed a new magnetic control method for plasmas based on deep reinforcement learning and applied it to a real-world plasma for the 1st time in the @TCV_tokamak research facility. #nuclearfusion
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We’re happy to announce that we will be hosting YouTube celebrity Dianna Cowern aka @thephysicsgirl during our open house! 👩🔬🧪 Looking forward to welcoming you on @EPFL campus! portesouvertes.epfl.ch #EPFLOpenDays #EPFL50 @epflSB @EPFLevents @MartinVetterli
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A very warm welcome back home to Switzerland's two Fields Medal laureates, Maryna Viazovska @epfl_en and Hugo Duminil-Copin @UNIGEnews! @MartinVetterli #FieldsMedal
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On this #PrideMonth, EPFL calls its community to respect gender, sexual, and ethnic diversity all year round, and extends its support the LGBTQIA+ community. Our campus must always be a place of diversity and inclusion 🌈 @PlanQueer @polyquity @agepoly @EPFLdiversity @gvdgoot
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EPFL now requires *all staff* to work remotely. President @MartinVetterli is counting on everyone's sense of responsibility and solidarity. Thank you! #COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve #SaveLives
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ETH Zurich has just completed its own rebranding project, drawing inspiration from the new logo that EPFL introduced a year ago. The similar look reflects a desire by the sister schools to build closer ties. go.epfl.ch/423924
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Happening on @Minecraft: EPFL students are building the whole EPFL campus! ⛏️ discord.gg/zYtZuue #epflcampus
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Swiss institutes @UZH_en, @ETH_en and @EPFL ranked among top 10 most international universities via @Reuters graphics.reuters.com/EUROPE-…
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Using a fossil and fossilized footprints, researchers recreated the walk of a 300-million-year-old animal. go.epfl.ch/lisWm #epflSTI
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For those of you who miss the @EPFL campus, here is what it looks like these days.
#StayAtHome #COVID19
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EPFL is the most international university, according to @THEworldunirank timeshighereducation.com/stu…
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Three presidents in a row! @MartinVetterli (@epfl_en), Doris #Leuthard (#Switzerland) and Lino Guzzella (@ETH_en) are aboard the Digital Train. #DigitalDay
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Happy #WomenInScience Day!
Today, we celebrate all women and girls, at EPFL and all around the world, who play a significant role in all science fields and inspire future generations.
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As of today, employees at @EPFL, @ETH_en, @vbs_ddps and some hospitals and cantonal administrations can download the digital proximity tracing application #SwissCovid. This large-scale pilot paves the way for public availability by mid-June. go.epfl.ch/3c8c03 #COVID19 #DP3T
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Unveiling the new EPFL logo with a drone! It will now be visible 24/7 at the new Place Maurice Cosandey. #EPFL50
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Today, EPFL president @MartinVetterli awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to @demishassabis, Founder and CEO of @DeepMind, and @IsomorphicLabs.
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Congratulations to @TUM_Hyperloop for winning the #Hyperloop pod competition 2019 with a speed of 480km/h. Amazing Swiss representation with @swissloop and @epfloop on the top 3.🥈🥉@elonmusk
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Today, the #DP3T team at EPFL assessed the accuracy of the Bluetooth protocol for measuring #SocialDistancing in the anti-#COVID19 proximity tracing app. 10 Swiss army soldiers took part in various makeshift daily life situations @gannimo @ICepfl go.epfl.ch/b481e9
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Our warmest congratulations to our neighbor Jacques Dubochet @unil and his colleagues for today's #NobelPrize in chemistry!
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Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, 17 March, all EPFL buildings will be closed until further notice. Students are prohibited from coming to campus. Remote work is mandatory for all EPFL collaborators.
#COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve #SaveLives
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As wearing masks in all EPFL buildings is mandatory since September 1st, @epflSV dean Gisou van der Goot @gvdgoot shows how to - and how *not* to - wear a mask. 😷 #WearaMask #fightcorona
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The EPFL team @epfloop is walking away from its very first #Hyperloop competition with a podium finish. Congratulations again! actu.epfl.ch/news/epfloop-ta…
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EPFL is 50! 🎂
50 years of education, research and innovation.
120 nationalities, 11’000 students, one campus.
Celebrate with us: celebration.epfl.ch #EPFL50
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"Using AI to Accelerate Scientific Discovery”
Today's campus lecture, which will be given by @demishassabis, the Founder and CEO of @DeepMind and @IsomorphicLabs, is fully booked but will be broadcast live on the EPFL YouTube channel.
More info: epfl.ch/campus/events/events…
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A recent breakthrough from @TheLutolfLab laboratory and published in @natBME will enable mass production of standardized #organoids for the first time. This was achieved thanks to a customized guidance system that ensures homogenous cell culturing @epflSV actu.epfl.ch/news/standardiz…
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EPFL expresses its full solidarity with everyone in our community affected by the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian and Russian students affected by the conflict or the sanctions are eligible for financial assistance.
Support, help and resources on ukraine.epfl.ch
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Congratulations to Jocelyne Bloch, neurosurgeon and prof. at EPFL/CHUV/UNIL, and @gcourtine, prof. of neuroscience at EPFL/CHUV/UNIL, who have been named in the "Pioneers" category of the TIME100 Health list. @Neuro_X_EPFL @epflSV @_NeuroRestore @TIME
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🎉 Congratulations to Mackenzie Mathis on winning the Swiss Science Prize Latsis 2024!
Mackenzie Mathis, a Professor at our University, has developed pioneering artificial intelligence algorithms in behavioural neuroscience. @epflSV @snsf_ch
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Nonna Rosetta has a message for the EPFL community! #TogetherAgainstCovid19 @MartinVetterli @casasurace
➡️Watch the full video: piped.video/WH4vX7tjep4
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Professor Bruno Correia, head of EPFL’s Laboratory of Protein Design and Immunoengineering, has been named best teacher in the life sciences and technology section for 2019, just four years after giving his first-ever class. @befcorreia @epflSV #epflSV actu.epfl.ch/news/knowing-so…
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Today, we celebrate all women who are contributing to research and innovation at #EPFL and around the world. #EachforEqual #IWD2020
Meet some of our researchers: portraits-professeures-epfl.…
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A soft implant developed by @gcourtine, @Jocelyne_Bloch and their teams now allows patients with a complete spinal cord injury to stand up and walk again. piped.video/4wUADfnCMdc @_NeuroRestore @onwdempowered
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Francesco Stellacci's Laboratory received a CHF 5 million research grant from the Werner Siemens Foundation. The team, who is working on a compound able to block viral activity, could hopefully make progress in the fight against SARS-CoV-2 @frstella actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-lab-h…
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As an institution that advocates the broad dissemination of knowledge and free will, EPFL considers that everyone should be able to study and express opinions freely. (2/2)
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The Swiss Federal Council has renewed @MartinVetterli’s term as president of EPFL. The professor of communication systems will therefore lead EPFL for a second four-year term that will begin on 1 January 2021. actu.epfl.ch/news/federal-co…
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12 days to go until the EPFL Open Days! #PortesOuvertesEPFL
Physics is not only about formulas and @thephysicsgirl will prove it. From demos to videos, don't miss her talk on September 14th: go.epfl.ch/95f3a7
#EPFL50 #EPFLevents
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To celebrate its 50 anniversary, EPFL unveils its new brand identity, and inaugurates the new @lombardodier Agora. #EPFL50 actu.epfl.ch/news/a-l-occasi…
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Don’t miss the exclusive conference of @harari_yuval at the STCC on July, 10. An additional 500 free tickets have just been released. #EPFL50 @Empowerment_F
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🚀 Together with ETH Zürich and the CSCS, we have just released Apertus, 🇨🇭 Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.
Find out more: go.epfl.ch/a672aa
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A robotic microsurgery platform that can perform high-precision, micrometer-resolution dissections advances our understanding of how the vertebrate body forms during embryonic development. go.epfl.ch/9c4d6b
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Anna Morales @SizeMattersBaby, a doctoral assistant @EPFLEngineering @epflSB, is preparing her thesis on materials science. In parallel, she’s becoming a science influencer in Spain as she brings science and pop culture together in her videos. #EPFLpeople
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A new @ICepfl research shows that almost half of local #Twitter trending topics in Turkey and about one in five worldwide are fake and created by bots.
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EPFL ranked 4th in @Reuters' Europe's Most Innovative Universities 2018 ranking reuters.com/article/us-emea-…
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A report on the status of women faculty at EPFL outlines common challenges faced by women professors, and more importantly, recommendations on how to move forward. @BernierLabEPFL actu.epfl.ch/news/new-recomm…
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Impressive panel for a great talk tonight @EPFL_en: Grégoire Courtine @gcourtine, Jocelyne Bloch, @KenRoth, Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval, @EffyVayena, Jamie Paik @robotician, Pierre Vandergheynst @trekkinglemon and @DelariveLeila. Thanks @Empowerment_F!
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EPFL is proud to be a member of @PeppPt along with experts from research institutions and companies. This international initiative aims to develop a proximity tracing that preserves individual privacy @carmelatroncoso @gannimo @marcelsalathe #COVID19 pepp-pt.org
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To mark the International Women’s Day, EPFL officially named squares and streets on its campus after pioneering women in scientific and engineering fields. go.epfl.ch/feebf8 #IWD2022 #IWD @EPFLdiversity @gvdgoot @EPFLevents
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For the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, we wish to emphasize that EPFL advocates a culture of #respect towards sexual and gender diversity, and offers support to minorities: go.epfl.ch/6acf81
#ResponsibleTransformationEPFL #IDAHOT2021 @EPFLdurable
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The #SwissCovid tracing app, a useful tool in stemming the spread of the SARS-COV2, is now available to the general public. Thank you to all the people who participated in the pilot tests! #COVID19 actu.epfl.ch/news/swiss-fede…
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We definitively have some super cool physics going on @EPFL_en in Lausanne! On top of that, we have an amazing view on Lake Geneva 😃 (and we're celebrating our 50th anniversary!)
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Creating a new kind of trust in a virtual world: the challenge of the new @EPFL_en Center for Digital Trust, announced today by EPFL president @MartinVetterli during the #cybersecurityday, held in the presence of Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin. #DigitalTrust
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Together with @ETH_en, we are launching “Swiss AI", which aims to position Switzerland 🇨🇭 as a leading global hub for the development and implementation of transparent and reliable AI. A new supercomputer based at @cscsch will help boost the initiative.
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Chemists at EPFL have developed an efficient process for converting carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, a key ingredient of synthetic fuels and materials. #CarbonNeutral #epflSB actu.epfl.ch/news/carbon-neu…
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🧠🚶♂️By applying deep brain stimulation (DBS) to the lateral hypothalamus, our scientists managed to improve the recovery of lower limb movements in two individuals with partial spinal cord injuries. @CHUVLausanne @unil @_NeuroRestore
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Congratulations @EPFLoop for your amazing 3rd place in the #Hyperloop competition! 🇨🇭🎉 #hyperlooppodcompetition
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Congratulations to the @epfloop team for qualifying as one of the top 3 #Hyperloop competitors! Good luck for today! 🤞#hyperlooppodcompetition
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Today we @EPFL inaugurated our new heating plant, which has the capacity to heat and cool the Lausanne campus solely by drawing water from Lake Geneva and recovering excess heat from a connected data center. @EPFLdurable actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-takes…
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Michel Roccati, an Italian patient who suffers from a complete spinal cord injury after a motorbike accident, has recently received the implant on his spinal cord. A wireless tablet forwards the signals to a pacemaker in his abdomen, allowing him to stand.
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A third of food is wasted in Switzerland. Today, students raised awareness about this issue by preparing a free soup made of still-edible ingredients that would have been thrown away by supermarkets @assoc_Unipoly @EPFLdurable
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Switzerland’s two federal institutes of technology, @ETH and EPFL, have teamed up to offer a new joint doctoral programme in the learning sciences.
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A new study led by @epflsv and @embl scientists suggests that the way animal cells perform cell division evolved long before animals themselves.
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Making of the new giant EPFL logo, installed in the early morning yesterday. #epflcampus #EPFL50
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Exclusive conference: save the date and register now!
On July 10, we will welcome the best-selling author @harari_yuval for a free public speaking event at the STCC. #EPFL50 @Empowerment_F
Info & registration: epfl.ch/campus/events/celebr…
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Introducing @EPFL professors to social media communication! Welcome to Twitter, @gvdgoot, @Naefelix, @EPFL_Galland, @JamesLarus, @FMarech, @ChTeiler, @PhThalmannEPFL! 😀 with @MirkoBischBerg & @jamcaillet poke @MartinVetterli
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Michael Unser was born to an artist mother and scientist father. According to him, like art, maths aspires to accuracy, clarity and simplicity.
Discover the portrait of the best teacher 2022 of the microengineering section of EPFL @EPFLEngineering
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Blue Brain Project releases first-ever digital 3D brain cell atlas. actu.epfl.ch/news/blue-brain… @BlueBrainPjt
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This weekend was a great one for #science! Cheers to @CERN for their successful Open Days! #CernOpenDays #PortesOuvertesEPFL
To the 75,000 visitors of the #CERNOpenDays: thank you for exploring the future with us and sharing our passion for science!
Remember that CERN is open all year (visit.cern), so we hope to see you again soon 😉
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Researchers from our school have developed 4M, a next-generation, open-sourced framework for training versatile and scalable multimodal foundation models that go beyond language.💡🚀
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Digital artwork has been a rapidly growing segment of the modern-art landscape ever since the start of the pandemic actu.epfl.ch/news/the-nft-ma…
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The relationship between PhD students and their supervisors has a significant influence on the work produced and the well-being of everyone. EPFL is publishing a guide that sets out the rules, rights & responsibilities of everyone involved in PhD programs. actu.epfl.ch/news/a-best-pra…
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EPFL has extended remote work until 19 April and classes continue to be given online. No one is allowed to enter EPFL buildings. Thank you for your efforts to help slow the spread of the virus! go.epfl.ch/coronavirus
#COVID19 #PushDownTheCurve #StayHome #SaveLives
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The @epfloop team has been selected to compete in @SpaceX's #Hyperloop again, next summer in California. actu.epfl.ch/news/epfloop-in…
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Great news for Swiss research: scientists based at EPFL and other Swiss entities will be able to apply to 2025 ERC Starting Grants, ERC Synergy Grants and ERC Consolidator Grants (that will be launched in 2024).
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Three of the ERC’s upcoming grant competitions to be launched in 2024 will be open to researchers based in Swiss entities.
Read more on the European Commission’s decision on eligibility of Swiss entities in ERC calls.
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2 million users signed up for the EPFL #MOOCs actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-moocs…
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An AI research collaboration led by Alexander Mathis creates a model which provides deep insights into hand movement, an essential step for the development of neuroprosthetics and rehabilitation technologies. @TrackingPlumes @epflSV @Neuro_X_EPFL
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Congratulations to @swissloop for reaching 259km/h with your pod « Claude Nicollier ». Hop Swiss! 🇨🇭
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📢 The @ETH_Rat has announced the appointment of two professors at EPFL. Congratulations to Charlotte Bunne @_bunnech and Wenzel Jakob @wenzeljakob.
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EPFL researchers have developed ChemCrow, an AI system that enhances chemical research by integrating advanced tools for tasks like organic synthesis and drug discovery.
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Neuroscientists have enabled a paralyzed person to walk again naturally. Using a wireless digital bridge connecting the brain and spinal cord, they allowed an individual to regain control over their leg muscles. actu.epfl.ch/news/thought-co…
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Why do gas bubbles remain stuck in narrow vertical tubes instead of rising upwards? An EPFL Bachelor’s student found the answer to a mystery that has puzzled scientists for 100 years. @EPFLEngineering actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-s-stu…
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A new technique keeps cells alive during extraction to track the activity of thousands of genes across time. The breakthrough method is called Live-seq and was jointly developed by scientists at @epflSV and @ETH_en actu.epfl.ch/news/live-seq-s…
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