San Francisco and ETH Zurich have developed a method that enables them to precisely control gene expression in individual cells of yeast.

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In between in his other projects at ETH Zurich, which include developing balancing cubes and actuated wingsuits, D'Andrea is also looking for ways to commercialize the university's innovations.

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Researchers at ETH Zurich are working to change that scenario, as they're currently developing a "self-reconfigurable" device that packs a glue gun for creating the tools it needs on the fly.

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"If we are correct, this is the first time we are seeing a planet forming inside its natal environment, " said Sascha Quanz, an astronomer at the Swiss university ETH Zurich and leader of the team.

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The first, b y Tobias Erb at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, looked at whether arsenic really had taken over the the biological processes usually served by phosphorus, as Wolfe-Simon and her colleagues had argued.

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First is a scholarly article by Elgin Brunner and Myriam Dunn Cavelty, both of whom are associated with the International Relations and Security Network at the ETH in Zurich.

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Some cash for the overhaul of the architecture school has come from a technical institute in Zurich, known by its initials ETH.

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This thought-provoking and frankly outrageous idea comes to us from Matthew Hulbert of ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Christian Brusch, a lecturer at the University of Zurich.

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