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Our brains have a ‘fingerprint’ too

“I think about it every day and dream about it at night. It’s been my whole life for five years now,” says Enrico Amico, a scientist and SNSF Ambizione Fellow at EPFL’s Medical Image Processing Laboratory and the EPFL Center for Neuroprosthetics. He’s talking about his research on the human brain in general, and on […]

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On the trail of a medical mystery: Scientists zero in on elevated MRSA susceptibility after liver transplants

For decades, recipients of liver transplants have been inexplicably vulnerable to MRSA infection after their lifesaving surgeries, but the molecular mechanisms underlying that risk had remained stubbornly mystifying, at least until now. In the hunt for a culprit at the core of a nagging—and sometimes deadly—susceptibility, a multidisciplinary team of physicians, surgeons and scientists in […]

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Designing a wearable sensor for neonatal seizure monitoring

eizures in neonates (newborn children) is the most common sign of neurological dysfunction and requires immediate medical attention. Therefore, the continuous monitoring of neonatal seizures is critical for their optimal treatment. For his Ph.D. research, Hongyu Chen sought to solve problems in neonatal seizure detection and focused on the design of a wearable sensor system. […]