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Up until recently the road for people suffering from obesity to lose weight was long and hard, often impossible, but a new breakthrough drug from Denmark has led to a paradigm shift. Worldwide obesity has tripled since 1975, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Obesity Federation estimates that there are 1.1 […]

The Royal Institute of Art and SciLifeLab have connected the creative minds of artists and scientists and the outcome of this fusion is explored in an exhibition at SciLifeLab campus. In February 2023, scientists and art students were given the possibility to present their respective fields to each other through the initiative Coalescence; Scientific research […]

Findings from the major study iStopMM has been used to redefine monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), a precursor to multiple myeloma. We spoke with Þórir Einarsson Long, one of the authors of Defining new reference intervals for serum free light chains in individuals with chronic kidney disease: Results of the iStopMM study, published in […]

An international team of researchers have combined ideas from biology, computer science and mathematics to explain why evolution seems to favor symmetry. We spoke with Iain Johnston, a professor at the University of Bergen, and one of the authors behind the article Symmetry and simplicity spontaneously emerge from the algorithmic nature of evolution, published in […]

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in producing brain scans that detect the presence of alpha-Synuclein.

On International Women’s Day we like to highlight some of the many inspiring women in life science that we have had the opportunity to meet and interview. Within life science business Nordic Life Science has interviewed both young aspiring female entrepreneurs as well as well-established business leaders.     Malin Parkler     “Define how […]