Botanique de terrain
Obtenir son certificat de botanique de terrain "Bryophytes" en 2021
12.01.2021
« Mais quelle est donc cette mousse » ? Après le succès de ses premiers cours sur les Bryophytes (mousses), en 2020, le Jardin botanique de l'Université de Fribourg propose une nouvelle série de journées…
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Crop protection
Reducing pesticide use with nanoparticles
15.12.2020
Researchers at the Adolphe Merkle Institute and the Department of Biology at the University of Fribourg have discovered how certain silica nanoparticles could act as a traceless, degradable, and highly…
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New Institute
The Botanical Garden becomes an institute
10.12.2020
This new status gives the "green oasis" of Pérolles a better basis for its missions of teaching and research, plant conservation and mediation towards the general public.
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Research
Small brains in flies
27.11.2020
Microcephaly is a rare neurodevelopmental disease that leads to reduced brain size. The disease can have numerous causes such as an infection by the infamous Zika virus or also the inheritance of genetic…
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Outdoors Exhibition
"In Switzerland, one plant in three could disappear"
19.10.2020
The outdoors exhibition «Trésor végétal: comment sauvegarder nos plantes menacées» suggests solutions and presents involved people in Fribourg who protect endangered species. In French and German.
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Research
Humans, not climate, have driven rapidly rising mammal extinction rate
25.09.2020
Human impact can explain ninety-six percent of all mammal species extinctions of the last hundred thousand years, according to a new study led by Professor Daniele Silvestro at the University of Fribourg…
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Research
Milk tolerance has increased rapidly
07.09.2020
Only a few of the bones from remains found on the oldest known battlefield in Europe show evidence of milk tolerance. Some 120 generations later, almost all people living in the same area are now able…
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Research
Débarquées en Europe, les drosophiles ont vite évolué
12.08.2020
Une équipe internationale co-dirigée par l'Université de Fribourg a réalisé la première étude à l'échelle du continent européen de l'évolution génétique des drosophiles, ces petites mouches que l'on trouve…
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Le Jardin botanique devient un institut
10.07.2020
Le 1er janvier prochain, le Jardin botanique va vivre une étape décisive de son développement. Jusqu'ici simple «plateforme» du Département de biologie, le Jardin est appelé à devenir un institut rattaché…
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