D-BSSE News
All stories by Samuel Schlaefli
Combatting infant malnutrition
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Bioengineer Randall Platt engineers bacteria that can assess the state of our guts. It is hoped this non-invasive technique could eventually be used to develop more effective interventions against malnutrition among children in the Global South.
“There were moments when I was almost ready to give up”
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Renato Paro came to Basel as the son of Italian immigrants. It was there that, years later, he built up the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE). He is seen as a pioneer of epigenetics. His method for determining interactions between proteins and DNA in living cells has been adopted in labs around the world.