Surgery

Antimicrobial coating to improve implants

Infections after hip replacements and from orthopedic device procedures can be complicated and lead to painful and repeat surgeries, with the chance of "superbugs" leading to fatality.

Oncology & Cancer

Major step towards individual cancer immunotherapy

Medicine has great hopes for personalised cancer immunotherapy. The idea is to have a vaccine prompt the immune system to fight a tumour. Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a method that allows them to determine which ...