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Contact-tracing apps prove that they save lives

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A study published today in Nature shows that the NHS COVID-19 app for digital contact tracing, based on the DP3T protocol, averted between 300,000 and 600,000 COVID-19 cases in England and Wales. The researchers used data from the NHS to show and quantify the epidemiological impact of such privacy-preserving apps, which are now available around the globe to help control the pandemic.

Light meets superconducting circuits

12.05.21NewsResearch

EPFL researchers have developed a light-based approach to read out superconducting circuits, overcoming the scaling-up limitations of quantum computing systems.

Cancer cells hijack the 3D structure of DNA

11.05.21NewsResearch

Scientists at EPFL and UNIL have used a novel algorithmic approach on cancer cells to understand how changes in histone marks (H3K27ac) induce repositioning of chromatin regions in the cell nucleus, and described how modifications of local contacts between regulatory elements (enhancers and promoters) influence oncogene expression.

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Vortex: “A really friendly atmosphere”

06.05.21EPFL

The Vortex student housing complex officially opened last fall. With a capacity of over 1,200 students, Vortex provides a warm, welcoming environment where residents can interact. We decided to go see for ourselves

Associate Professor Katerina Argyraki © 2021 EPFL

“Network neutrality is a buzzword but there is no agreed definition"

30.04.21EPFL

EPFL Associate Professor Katerina Argyraki works on computer networks and neutrality, a notion she believes is critical to ensuring that the internet continues to foster competition and innovation.

"It's amazing to drive through a city and end up with a 3D model!”

16.04.21EPFL

Albane Descombes, a young member of EPFL’s Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLAB) had a wide-ranging and unconventional research experience helping with the final implementation of a four-year project in urban digitization, ScanVan.

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How healthy is your digital twin?

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Digital twins – a savvy combination of artificial intelligence and personal data – have already begun to revolutionize the way healthcare is provided. But they raise a lot of ethical and legal questions, especially given the vast amounts of medical data that must be collected to train artificial intelligence algorithms. So should we be worried about the eventuality of a digital clone?

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Campus Lecture : Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way we Live

Using up-to-the-moment information, and drawing on epidemiology, medicine, public health, sociology, economics, history, virology, and other fields, Nicholas Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague —…

17-05-202117-05-2021

With: Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, USA
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/89067164906
Category: Conferences – Seminars