Tag: Medicine

Tricky interfaces | ETH Zurich

There are many reasons for the limited transfer of BCIs into routine applications. Invasive BCI systems with implanted electrodes, for…

Averting a digital health crash

With tight funding schedules and doctoral students pressured to graduate, there’s a great temptation to skip best practice, and so…

Therapies must become more intensive

However, when we compare the intensity of movement in neurorehabilitation with that in motor development in childhood or in sport,…

How AI could spur drug development

This is why our scientists need not fear that computers will replace them altogether – in fact more medicinal chemists…

A ban would be a setback

ETH researchers never take the decision to use an animal in a laboratory lightly. Every single animal experiment requires authorisation…

Personalised medicine and the European data misery

Forging an independent path So how can Europe with its fragmented health care systems and strict data protection laws compete…

Communicating effectively in crises | ETH Zurich

What’s clear is that local healthcare must be radically improved and international cooperation intensified if we are not to be…

After the CRISPR babies, what next?

Despite all the enthusiasm about the undeniably enormous promise of genome editing, we have to recognise that the technique is…