When disaster strikes, drones and robots can be sent into danger zones to scout for survivors. The RoBoa from a student team ...

ETH Zurich researchers have identified an epigenetic memory in fat cells that drives the yo-yo effect after weight loss.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have now been able to show that this is all down to epigenetics. Epigenetics is the part of genetics that’s based not on the sequence of genetic building blocks but on small ...

Anyone who has ever tried to get rid of a few extra kilos knows the frustration: the weight drops initially, only to be back within a matter of weeks ...

A question of discipline? No, there are probably also physiological reasons. Ferdinand von Meyenn is Assistant Professor of ...

In the new study, scientists found that cells from human and mouse fat tissue show gene activity changes that are retained ...

The findings point toward a reason for the “yo-yo” cycle, in which people repeatedly lose and regain weight, says Ferdinand von Meyenn, an epigeneticist at ETH Zurich. “How can we improve that? How ...

The XPRIZE Rainforest competition acknowledged ETH Zurich-led team for its development and deployment of novel, autonomous ...

Promotion of this symphony of semiconductors came from many of the speakers at the IEEE Workshop on Wide Bandgap Power ...

Yilin Wang, winner of this year’s prestigious Salem Prize, speaks French, avoids the spotlight, and is ‘not a big fan’ of ...

In a paper published in Science Advances, the Pilhofer Lab (IMBB) together with the Albers Lab from the University of ...

Risk-taking by a few speculators, engineers and entrepreneurs transformed the energy market Entrepreneurial hypomania induced ...