A screenshot of MarrowQuant annotating a bone marrow trephine biopsy from a patient surfing from chemotherapy-induced aplasia. Credit: Olaia Naveiras (EPFL)

MarrowQuant: a new digital-pathology tool

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EPFL scientists have developed a digital pathology tool for quantifying bone marrow compartments in standard histological sections. Named “MarrowQuant”, the software makes it possible to examine bone marrow biopsies as well as to re-examine historical collections of bone-marrow samples and even old clinical trials.

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Inside mitochondria and their fascinating genome

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EPFL scientists have observed – for the first time in living cells – the way mitochondria distribute their transcriptome throughout the cell, and it involves RNA granules that turn out to be highly fluid.

New EPFL Vice-Presidencies approved

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The ETH Board has just approved three people whose names EPFL President Martin Vetterli put forward to head the School’s new vice presidencies: Prof. Gisou van der Goot, Prof. Jan Hesthaven and Matthias Gäumann.

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Sylvie Roke in her laboratory © 2020 Alain Herzog

New tools to unravel the mysteries of water

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Sylvie Roke, professor in bioengineering at EPFL, has just been elected by her peers as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). This is a rare distinction, that is awarded for her “seminal contributions to scattering and imaging technologies to enable pioneering studies of complex aqueous systems and their interfaces.”

“Now you can go almost everywhere by train in Europe,"says Alain Azzi. © DR

Alain Azzi: public transport, puzzles and praise

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Alain Azzi – a recent mechanical engineering graduate from EPFL – has won the 2020 LITRA Award for his Master’s thesis on making Lausanne’s bus system fully electric by 2030. And he’s grateful to EPFL for the experience.

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Podcast series explores campus life in the time of COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed daily life for the EPFL community, forcing staff to rethink how they work and prompting students to consider what they can do to help society.

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