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Using the gene scissors CRISPR and stem cells, NOMIS researcher Marc-David Ruepp, together with collaborators at the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) at King’s College London and Stockholm University, […]

Mutations in FUS and TARDBP cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but the precise mechanisms of selective motor neuron degeneration remain unresolved. To address if pathomechanisms are shared across mutations and […]

NOMIS Awardee Elena Conti has been awarded the Jung Prize for Medicine 2025 for her seminal contributions to RNA metabolism. The prize is awarded by the Jung Foundation for Science […]

Neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, are often associated with mutations in stress granule proteins. Aberrant stress granule condensate formation is associated with disease, making it a potential target […]

NOMIS Awardee Elena Conti has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of her distinguished contributions to original research. The NAS envisions “a nation and world […]

“How can we convey the urgency of the [climate] crisis when its impacts appear so subtle?” NOMIS researcher Tom Griffiths and scientists at Princeton University, UCLA and Carnegie Mellon University […]

NOMIS Awardee Anne Brunet has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the area of Cellular and Developmental Biology. Academy members include those who discover and […]

For much of the global population, climate change appears as a slow, gradual shift in daily weather. This leads many to perceive its impacts as minor and results in apathy […]

Polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion is associated with pathogenic protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disorders. However, long polyQ tracts are also found in many transcription factors (TFs), such as FOXP2, a TF implicated […]

NOMIS Professor of Genome Biology Jacob Corn and fellow researchers at ETH Zurich have unravelled the complex network that cells use to repair their genetic material. By examining thousands upon […]

The DNA damage response (DDR) is a multifaceted network of pathways that preserves genome stability1,2. Unravelling the complementary interplay between these pathways remains a challenge3,4. Here we used CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) screening […]

Glacier-fed streams (GFSs) are harsh environments hosting unique, highly specialized communities. Interestingly, glaciers and their GFSs are also present in Earth’s tropical regions, where environmental characteristics contrast with GFS conditions […]

Thomas Drant and Antonin Affholder have been named the new NOMIS–ETH Fellows at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (COPL) at ETH Zurich. Supporting COPL’s interdisciplinary and collaborative […]

Antonin Affholder is a NOMIS–ETH Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Beginning September 2025, he will conduct his research in the Department […]

Thomas Drant is a NOMIS–ETH Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He is conducting his research in the Department of Earth and […]

A study by NOMIS researcher Ryan McKay and colleagues reveals that atheists in some of the world’s most secular countries show an intuitive preference for religious belief over atheism. Their […]

Glaciers are rapidly shrinking, and nearly half of the world’s glaciers are expected to disappear by 2100. While technological interventions to slow ice melt are emerging, NOMIS researcher Tom Battin […]

We find evidence of belief in belief—intuitive preferences for religious belief over atheism, even among atheist participants—across eight comparatively secular countries. Religion is a cross-cultural human universal, yet explicit markers of […]

Scientists have long puzzled over how life could have emerged when phosphorus, a key ingredient for DNA, RNA, and cellular energy, was so scarce on early Earth. New research by […]

As glaciers begin to disappear, technological fixes to slow or halt ice melt are emerging. But regulations are urgently required before these fixes are used widely.