Primæval Switzerland 1

Notes from European Eye Clinics, (1) Switzerland

and the chairs are well sepai ated so as to admit of the free circulation of the patients who have been selected to illustrate the lecture : lacing a window are a few chairs in which are seated the patients who are too ill to walk about, or whose eyes must not be handled freely. Dr. Haab's assistants stand by such cases to demonstrate them to the students as they circulate past. Professor Haab ...

IBC – Proteomics, 1–2 March 2000, Basel Hilton, Switzerland

The massive increase in nucleotide sequence information available in public and private databases, coupled with advances in mass spectrometry (MS) and the associated search algorithms, have provided the basis for the emerging field of proteomics. The recent announcement of 35 000 or so genes in the human genome was on the low side of the number predicted. Yet, it re-affirms the view that cellul...

Insanity in Switzerland

Hygroscopicity Jungfraujoch, Switzerland

Hygroscopicity of the submicrometer aerosol at the high-alpine site Jungfraujoch, 3580 m a.s.l., Switzerland S. Sjogren, M. Gysel, E. Weingartner, M. R. Alfarra, J. Duplissy, J. Cozic, J. Crosier, H. Coe, and U. Baltensperger Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Science, University of Manchester, U...

Human Biomonitoring in Switzerland

In her Postulate of 20 March 2008, National Councillor Moser (Green Liberal, Canton Zurich) requested the Federal Council to consider the introduction of systematic analysis of various groups of chemicals (pesticides, PCBs, UV filters, etc.) to which the Swiss population is exposed. In its response of 6 June 2008, the Federal Council stated that it was prepared to investigate how existing resea...