PDB Reaches a New Milestone: more than 250,000 entries
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Happy Birthday #AFM!
To celebrate the first description of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in Physical Review Letters, we spoke to our longstanding honorary member Christoph Gerber, who, together with Carl Quate and Gerd Binnig, invented this groundbreaking instrument.
@unibas.ch bit.ly/4raqCOm
🇪🇺 At a key moment for Europe’s R&I future, Science Europe gathered policymakers and researchers for a breakfast dialogue at the @europarl.europa.eu, hosted by @linagalvez.eu, to discuss #FP10 priorities: strong budget, simpler rules, excellence, inclusion & open collaboration.
#ResearchPolicy
Job opening for Research Group Leader in Structural Studies at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, focusing on macromolecular structures.
Are you a structural biologist pushing the boundaries of molecular science with an ambitious research programme?
Join our Structural Studies Division as a tenure-track Group Leader, with core funding, world-leading facilities & enthusiastic colleagues.
Apply by 16 MAR
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Panel discussion with Jon Wilson, Ayah Bdeir, Amitabh Nag, Katharina Frey, Alex Ilic, Annie Hartley, Petri Myllymäki
Swiss session at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi. Excellent panel discussing on “Breaking Barriers: multilingual AI as a Bridge to Democractic Access”.
Deadline approaching for nominations for the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize:
The legacy of Amos Bairoch, the resources he and others created (Swiss-Prot, UniProt, PROSITE, ENZYME, ExPASy, neXtProt, Cellosaurus), his commitment to open access and high-quality curation, is immense and have guided bioinformatics to this day.
We recently released The Embedded Alphabet (TEA), a tiny head on top of ESM2 converting amino acids into a new 20-letter structural alphabet. Great for search (see bsky.app/profile/lore...), but we wondered: could we use it for generation? (2/n)
Bundespräsident Parmelin lanciert sechs neue Nationale #Forschungsschwerpunkte in Medizin, Klima, Physik und Chemie. Der #Bund stellt bis 2029 über 98 Mio. CHF bereit und die #Hochschulen steuern zusätzliche Mittel bei. Ziel ist die Förderung von Exzellenz und Stärkung der internationalen Position.
Le président Guy Parmelin lance six nouveaux #Pôles de recherche nationaux en médecine, climat, physique et chimie. La #Confédération alloue plus de 98 millions CHF jusqu’en 2029, auxquels s’ajoutent des moyens des #hautes écoles. But : renforcer l’excellence et la position internationale de la CH.
Il presidente della Confederazione Parmelin lancia 6 nuovi #poli nazionali di ricerca in settori come medicina, clima, fisica e chimica. La #Confederazione stanzierà oltre 98 mio. fr. fino al 2029; le #scuole universitarie forniranno ulteriori fondi. Obiettivo: promuovere l’eccellenza Svizzera.
Federal President Parmelin launches six new National #Centres of Competence in Research in medicine, climate, physics and chemistry. The #Confederation has set aside over CHF 98 million to be spent between now and 2029 and additional funding will be provided by #higher education institutions.
The Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) has decided to launch an additional #NCCR program specifically for humanities and social sciences. Further information on this call will be available in summer 2026.
www.sbfi.admin.ch/en/national-...
Six new National Centres of Competence in Research #NCCR announced today in strategically important areas such as medicine, quantum technology and climate: Children & Cancer, CLIM+, Genesis, Muoniverse, Precision, and Separations.
www.wbf.admin.ch/en/newnsb/JE...
@snsf.ch @sbfi.admin.ch
Forschungsförderung ist ein wichtiger Teil unserer Zukunftsvorsorge.
Österreich investiert in den nächsten 3 Jahren 3 Mrd € in die Grundlagenforschung. Ein reales Wachstum - selbst angesichts der hohen Inflation der letzten Jahre 👏
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
@sbfi.admin.ch @snsf.ch 🧪
Europa muss souveräner werden bei wissenschaftlichen Daten und Forschungsressourcen – aus Verantwortung. Darüber habe ich in dieser Woche im Deutschlandfunk gesprochen ⬇️ www.deutschlandfunk.de/us-wissensch...
Ypsomed Innovation Award ceremony First Place - Visienco AG - Lucie Jandet & team Second Place: Rhovica Neuroimaging AG - Martin Hlavica & team and optohive AG - Dominik Wyser, Michael Wyser & team
Congratulations to the Ypsomed Innovation Award winners 2026 !🏆
Visienco
Rhovica Neuroimaging
optohive
www.linkedin.com/company/ypso...
#YpsomedInnovationAward
𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 🤝 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄
“We need to ask ourselves, on both sides of the Atlantic, if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option.” Alain Berset in NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Excellente tribune de @torstenschwede.bsky.social à propos de l'importance de soutenir le @snf-fns.ch
www.letemps.ch/opinions/inv... www.letemps.ch/opinions/inv...
The 2026 Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize will be awarded in the field of life sciences (biology and medicine). 🧪
Deadline for nominations: 23 February 2026.
marcel-benoist.ch/en/nominatio... @snsf.ch
🚀 New paper in @natmethods.nature.com!
We present OpenStructure's powerful scoring capabilities, used to assess predictionsin CAMEO and CASP.
Read the full study here:
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#StructuralBiology #Bioinformatics #OpenStructure #CASP #CAMEO #ProteinStructure
Shaping the future of research funding. 🧪
The @snsf.ch Swiss National Science Foundation is looking for new members for the Foundation Council. Application deadline: 30 January 2026.
www.snf.ch/en/Boii3zvoj...
Sunrise over Basel, view from the Biozentrum building.
Good morning Basel!
@unibas.ch
The SNSF is considering restrictions for its Project funding. Goal: to ensure the quality of evaluation & stable success rates despite an increasing number of applications and limited funding. The final decision will be made in January 2026.
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#research #science
Interesting study showing how genetic variation can limit antibody therapies, led by the DBM team (Lepore & Jeker) with computational structural analysis from @torstenschwede.bsky.social @biozentrum.unibas.ch
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...
#PrecisionMedicine #Genetics #AntibodyTherapy
Antibody-based therapies are used to treat numerous diseases, from cancer to rheumatic disorders and multiple sclerosis. Researchers @biomedizin.unibas.ch & @biozentrum.unibas.ch now report that individual genetic differences can prevent antibody-based therapies from being effective in some people.
The administration of US President Donald Trump intends to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a world-leading Earth-science centre in Boulder, Colorado.
go.nature.com/4pjzUqB
🎉 The last newsletter for #eccb2026 is out! Organized by the @sib.swiss, from 31 Aug to 4 Sept 2026, the European Conference on Computational Biology will bring together the international #computationalbiology community for 5 days of science, collaboration & inspiration.
👉 Read more: chk.me/jcH79HN
Be it microwaves, lasers or vaccines – they all originated from basic research. With curiosity and tenacity, researchers laid the foundations for achievements that are taken for granted today. 🧪🔭🧬
Basic research today - innovation tomorrow. The @snsf.ch drives progress.
youtu.be/6IfWl8t62cM
📢 We are proud sponsors of the @AMRConference26 and are again hosting our networking event on the 2 March.
👩🔬👨🔬 "Young Scientists: Building future antibiotic expertise" features four speakers and an apéro.
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