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4 April 2022
Blick in die magnetische Zukunft

A look into the magnetic future

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research

PSI researchers are the first to observe a specific behaviour of magnetic ice.

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23 February 2022
Mobile excitons in TaSe3

Mobile excitons as neutral information carriers

These quasiparticles have the potential to revolutionise electronics - if they can move. Mobile excitons have now been observed for the first time in a metal.

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16 December 2021
Ligand induced dimerization of GPCR

Biased signalling for better drugs

A dream drug would provide a targeted therapeutic effect without side effects. Biased signalling could make this a reality. Publishing in PNAS, PSI researchers present a platform for biased signalling-based drug discovery.

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28 September 2021
Roger Benoit

Protein distancing

Media Releases Biology Health Innovation

PSI researchers have developed a new method to attach proteins to the surface of virus-like particles.

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16 June 2021
Teaser Xavier Deupi

How immune cells are activated

Biology Health Innovation Medical Science

A research consortium has deciphered the mechanism of CCR5 receptor activation, providing insights for the development of CCR5 drug antagonists for AIDS, cancer, and inflammatory diseases.

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11 June 2021
Moeckli et al

Two scenarios for superconductivity in CeRh2As2

CeRh2As2, a nonsymmorphic heavy fermion material, was recently reported to host a remarkable temperature versus z-axis magnetic-field phase diagram with two superconducting phases. In this material, the two inequivalent Ce sites per unit cell, related by inversion symmetry, introduce a sublattice structure corresponding to an extra internal degree of freedom. In this work, we propose a classification of the possible superconducting states in CeRh2As2 from the two Ce-sites' perspective.

 

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2 March 2021
teaser

Watching receptor proteins changing shape

Research Using Synchrotron Light SwissFEL Biology Health Innovation

In our bodies, G protein-coupled receptors mediate countless processes. PSI researcher Ramon Guixà talks about how he brings those receptor molecules to life on the computer screen.

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22 January 2021
Manuel Grimm

New blueprint for more stable quantum computers

Future Technologies Quantum Research

PSI researchers have shown how faster and better defined quantum bits can be created. The central elements are magnetic atoms from the class of so-called rare-earth metals, selectively implanted into the crystal lattice of a material.

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8 May 2020
Benefit of random testing

Benefit of random testing

With the imminent relaxation of socio-economic restrictions, it becomes vital to assess its effect on the prevalence of acute infections within the population, as rapidly as possible. Currently available monitoring instruments for the COVID-19 pandemic have an inherent time delay of about 14 days, as they rely on confirmed infections, hospitalizations, and death numbers. These methods give Reff(t) (the number of infections caused by a single infected person), but their delay is a significant disadvantage when restrictions are released. If after relaxation, Reff(t) rises above 1, one will not be able to react adequately before two weeks have passed during which time the prevalence could significantly rise. Here, we propose the use of random testing to shorten this reaction time, by obtaining direct and modeling dependent information on Reff(t). Through random testing of between 2500 and 20000 people per day, we find that over periods significantly shorter than two weeks, it becomes possible to detect a dangerous increase in Reff with reasonable confidence.

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