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EPFL Bioengineering Team Wins Global iGEM Competition

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EPFL’s student bioengineering team has won the Grand Prize of the 2019 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, as well as the Best Environment Project. Their winning project, ViTEST, is a diagnostic test for grapevine disease.

Maartje Bastings Featured as Emerging Investigator in Two Journals

31.10.19NewsEPFL

Maartje Bastings, head of the Programmable Biomaterials Laboratory at the School of Engineering (double affiliation in the Institute of Materials IMX and the Institute of Bioengineering IBI), appears in the respective Emerging Investigators 2019 issues of Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Biomaterials Science.

Analyzing Gut Bacteria More Accurately

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The microorganisms in our intestines could be linked to certain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes. Researchers from the AD-gut consortium have developed a novel method – combining optical DNA mapping and statistics – for accurately distinguishing and rapidly identifying the various species in the microbiota.

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