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Transplantable lab-grown organs move a step closer

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A liver organoid developed at EPFL offers new promise in transplantation and the study of liver disease.

ClearSpace-1 mission kicks off

10.07.20NewsEPFL

Work has just begun on building the first satellite that can capture and deorbit space debris. Making the space activities more sustainable is a huge responsibility – one that the European Space Agency has entrusted to EPFL startup ClearSpace.

Maryna Viazovska, explorer of mathematical dimensions

07.07.20NewsEPFL

Summer Series: Science as a vocation. Maryna Viazovska, who holds the Chair of Number Theory at EPFL, has resolved the problem of sphere packing in 8 and 24 dimensions.

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Simon Gallo working at home. Credit: S. Gallo (EPFL)

Building virtual wellbeing in a living room

10.07.20Innovation

On March 12, 2020, COVID-19 restrictions shut down the EPFL campus. Simon Gallo, a postdoc with EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute and co-founder of robotics start-up Metaphysiks Engineering, got stuck at home with a prototype that needed upgrading. With commercial deadlines looming, Gallo knew that is was time for hands-on science at home.

Florence Pojer, head of Protein Production and Structure Core Facility© 2020 Alain Herzog

“Our proteins were used to develop a new COVID-19 serology test”

07.07.20Innovation

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists at EPFL’s Protein Production and Structure Core Facility (PTPSP) have been producing and purifying SARS-CoV-2 proteins for use in Swiss research. Head of unit Dr. Florence Pojer explains how her team has been operating in these unprecedented times.

Sharing lockdown stories through podcasts

06.07.20EPFL

EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) was an unusually quiet place over the past few months of lockdown. Yet the work never stopped.