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Danish scientists have showed that regularly eating chocolate might reduce risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), which is an irregular heartbeat.

Since launching at Davos in 2017, an Oslo-based global organization has been accelerating pandemic preparations. Years before COVID-19 appeared, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) began working to make vaccine development – including for coronaviruses – faster and less of a financial burden. CEPI is a global nonprofit, supported by public and private funders, […]

Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark upend conventional wisdom about introducing new genes into bacteria. Why do some foreign genes work well in a new host and some do not? The reasons are critical for synthetic biologists who add heterologous genes to bacteria. The issue is clinically relevant, since bacteria gain antibiotic resistance through […]

Ideas from a California university inspire research and training in commercialization. It’s been a year since the launch of the Centre for Technology Entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The university creates an average of 115 new companies a year, based on a 2018 analysis, and DTU Entrepreneurship plans to build on that […]

The combined Nordic population is 27 million – an impressive cohort for health studies. Last spring, a delegation visited Washington, D.C. to promote Nordic registries and biobanks for precision medicine research. At the Swedish Embassy, the group met with senior officials from agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. At an international meeting […]

Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe defined a system involved in inflammation, metabolism, cancer, and more.