When tumour cells no longer degrade themselves, cancer may develop. Using black skin cancer as an example, Bern Researchers have now shown that a protein plays an important role in the process of degradation of tumour cells. By reactivating this degradation therapeutically, you can virtually force tumours to…

Last generation drug-eluting stents are the safest and most effective therapy for percutaneous coronary revascularization in female heart patients. This was demonstrated today in a large-scale analysis by the Department of Cardiology at Inselspital.

Hope for hand amputees: researchers at Inselspital and the University of Bern have successfully tested a new method for local immunosuppression.

Parkinson’s disease can be treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the very advanced stage when patients develop medically refractory fluctuations and dyskinesia. A new publication suggests that the treatment is better than medical treatment already at an earlier stage.