Aldosterone a major driver of resistant hypertension

Karolinska Institutet's Center for Systems Infection Biology (CSIB) is being inaugurated today, October 2, at Campus Flemingsberg.

SciLifeLab is increasing its space on Campus Solna by more than 9,000m². Property owner Akademiska Hus is investing approximately SEK 230 million in an extensive renovation that will give the research center more modern laboratories, flexible workspaces, and new facilities for meetings and training.

Cancer rates among adults under 50 rose for 12 of 18 cancer types in the Nordic countries between 2003 and 2022, according to a registry study published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. The study analyzed more than 2.2 million cancer cases from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, covering nearly 28 million people.

Patients who have had high-risk polyps removed can probably wait five years rather than three for their first follow-up colonoscopy without raising their risk of colorectal cancer. That is the finding from the European Polyp Surveillance (EPoS) trial, the world's largest randomized study of follow-up after polyp removal, led from Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo. The first results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A large population study using NADMED's redox metabolite testing platform has established healthy reference ranges for NAD and glutathione, two key drivers of cellular energy metabolism, and identified distinct disease-related alterations in both from a single blood sample.

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed a treatment for acute myeloid leukemia that forces cancer cells to run at full throttle while cutting off their energy supply, driving them to burn out and die from the stress. The first study in mice shows highly promising results.

Ada Yonath, the 2009 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, died on August 31, 2026, at the age of 87. She was one of the first Nobel Prize laureates I interviewed as a new editor at Nordic Life Science – and the first I met in person, over an interview at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. Yonath, who in 2009 became the first woman in 45 years to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, spoke to me about her curiosity, polar bears, extremely durable bacteria from the Black Sea, and her passion for science.