5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  University of Geneva researchers Jonathan Maurer and Megane Aebischer won first place in the ISC Tube 2026 competition.

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  Their video used humor to explain how oligonucleotides are retained in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography.

• 3

  The ISC Tube competition invites scientists to explain chromatography through short, creative videos.

• 4

  Maurer and Aebischer used ChatGPT to generate character images and Gemini to create video sequences.

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  The researchers said the project took about six hours, and that developing ideas and jokes was the most difficult part.