Looking back at 2016 (2/2)

Slowing the aging process, improving data security, enabling paraplegics to walk again, transporting vaccines at room temperature to warm countries, creating jobs with the CHF 400 million raised by spin-offs - those are just some of the many areas where EPFL scientists have made a lasting contribution. Pomegranates finally reveal their powerful anti-aging secret Pomegranates have finally revealed their powerful anti-aging secret. A team of scientists from EPFL and the company Amazentis have shown how a molecule in pomegranates, transformed by microbes in the gut, enables muscle cells to protect themselves against one of the major causes of aging. In nematodes and rodents, the effect is nothing short of amazing. The discovery was published in July, and human clinical trials are currently underway. More than two million dollars to rethink cybersecurity Is antivirus software already dead? That's certainly what George Candea believes, and he's not the only computer security expert who says so. Together with some of his former PhD students, the EPFL professor founded , a startup that is developing a brand new approach to computer security.