A weekly selection of noteworthy research from Swiss institutions brought to you by Science Studios.
This week
5 to 11 October 2026
The public health challenges of children's and adolescents' digital media use: applying the digital determinants of health as an interpretive framework.
Louise Holly · University of Geneva · Computer Science
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Governing the digital determinants of health for children and young people: a global public health imperative.
Barbara Prainsack · University of Geneva · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)The digital determinants of health: a new era for global public health.
James Shaw · University of Geneva · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Re-evaluating molecular clock maximum age calibrations revives pre-Ediacaran divergence estimates for animals.
Orin M Lole Durbin · ETH Zurich · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)A TERRA-NONO axis drives fibroblast reprogramming in cancer.
Emery Di Cicco · University of Lausanne · Biology
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Topology-enforced synthesis of atomically precise silver nanoclusters in 3D DNA lattices.
Lara Perren · ETH Zurich · Chemistry
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)T-B interactions yield CD3+ B cells and CD20+ T cells with pathogenic features in multiple sclerosis.
Selia Baier · University of Basel · Biology
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)The mycomembrane proteins PorH and ProtX are inserted at polar growth zones and linked to the cell wall.
Elizabeth M Hart · University of Lausanne · Chemistry
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)A TBK1/ULK1 signalling axis couples lysosomal stress to TFEB activation.
Alessandra Esposito · University of Fribourg · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)γδ T cell receptor dependencies define a unique immunosurveillance modality.
Nicolas Veland · University of Basel · Computer Science
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Written in development and lost in ageing: the grammar of cellular identity.
A Doğa Yücel · ETH Zurich · Chemistry
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)GenAI-Net: A generative AI framework for automated biomolecular network design.
Maurice Filo · ETH Zurich · Computer Science
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Additional evidence supports a timescale exceeding 100,000 years for the Guliya ice cap, Tibetan Plateau.
Lonnie G Thompson · ETH Zurich · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Multiobjective VHH discovery through integrated high-throughput screening and AlphaFold3-guided structural prioritization.
Max D Overath · ETH Zurich · Physics
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Author Correction: Proteasome-guided haem signalling axis contributes to T cell exhaustion.
Yingxi Xu · University of Lausanne · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Gut microbiota primes stroke severity via the AHR in intestinal dendritic cells.
Rosa Delgado Jiménez · University of Lausanne · Biology
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Loss of cerebral autoregulation drives abnormal perfusion patterns after stroke.
Chryso Lambride · University of Zurich · Mathematics
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Spatiotemporally primed coelomic epithelium and supporting-like cells establish the dual origin of granulosa cells.
Cyril Djari · University of Geneva · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Early catarrhine evolution in the light of semicircular canal and vestibule shape.
Alessandro Urciuoli · University of Zurich · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)The lipidomic architecture of the mouse brain.
Luca Fusar Bassini · EPFL · Biology
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.
H Beryl Rappaport · University of Geneva · Biology
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Human learning is an understudied but promising lever for boosting human-AI synergy.
Julian Berger · University of Basel · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Thymic age and peripheral residence time determine antitumor competence of CD8+ T cells.
Yuanqin Yang · University of Basel · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Promotion of long-term health in early life.
Martin Stocker · University of Lucerne · Chemistry
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Electroluminescent photoresists extending lithographic scaling to OLEDs.
Shao-Wei Lo · ETH Zurich · Chemistry
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Most-favoured-nation pricing for prescription drugs in US Medicare: a cohort study.
Thomas J Hwang · ETH Zurich · Medicine
View paper (opens the original paper on an external site)Convergent evolution of metabolic regulation governs redox adaptation in Toxoplasma.
Christopher J Giuliano · University of Geneva · Chemistry
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