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Milinkovitch's lab makes the cover of PLOS Biology
16 Apr 2025

Milinkovitch's lab makes the cover of PLOS Biology

The editorial team of PLOS Biology selects one light-sheet microscopy image produced by LANE lab.
10 Dec 2024

Kostas Kampourakis is the 2024 winner of the Friend of Darwin award

Honored with Prestigious Award: Kostas Kampourakis Receives "Friend of Darwin 2024"
31 Oct 2024

How the dog, cow and ferret make their noses

Milinkovitch's team found that nose patterns form in embryos due to differential skin growth supported by blood vessels.
18 Oct 2023

The encounter between Neanderthals and Sapiens as told by their genomes

By analyzing genomes up to 40,000 years old, Mathias Currat's team has traced the history of migrations between Sapiens and Neanderthals.
01 Oct 2023

Skin colour patterns: predicting the unseen

In ‘Physical Review X (PRX)’, Milinkovitch's team predicts & confirms a secondary colour pattern in ocellated lizards. This pattern is too subtle for our eyes to see.
28 Sep 2023

Parkinson’s: are our neurons more vulnerable at night?

Emi Nagoshi's team shows that disruptions to the circadian clock increase the risk of developing a neurodegenerative disease.
18 Aug 2023

The University of Geneva enters the ‘top 50’ in world ranking

The UNIGE is indeed now ranked 49th in the world
04 Apr 2023

The secret behind the Nikon Photomicrography 1st prize revealed

We publish today a new method that provides unmatched visualisation of collagen 3D network architecture.
It makes the cover of Current Biology
06 Dec 2022

It makes the cover of Current Biology

The quantitative analysis of scale-by-scale patterning in lizards by Ebrahim Jahanbakhsh & Michel Milinkovitch makes the cover of Current Biology.
14 Nov 2022

How lizards got their skin colour patterns

In the journal Current Biology, researchers in the Department of Genetics and Evolution quantify the predictability of scale-by-scale patterns in multiple divergent species of lizards.
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