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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have found a new weapon to fight bacterial growth on surfaces like implants or in catheters.

The Promobilia Foundation has donated SEK 30 million to Linköping University for an interdisciplinary research project where organic electronics will be used to treat Parkinson’s disease symptoms. Stiftelsen för Parkinsonsforskning at LiU has also donated SEK 5 million to the purpose, and LiU is adding SEK 10 million.

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has published a peer-reviewed original paper with the results of a clinical trial demonstrating the efficacy of Science Corporation’s PRIMA brain-computer interface (BCI) retinal implant.

The power of quantum computing holds great promise for the life science industry, not least speeding up and reducing costs within drug discovery.

It is once again time to honor extraordinary scientific discoveries. Will it be GLP-1 based drugs, quantum computing developments, findings about the gut microbiome, the invention of the cochlear implant, optogenetics, or new cystic fibrosis treatments that is honored this year? Or will it be something completely different?

Using mouse models, the researchers have shown that if antibiotics are administered with an enzyme called endolysin, the combined effect protects against infection by resistant bacteria in all bodily organs – including the brain, which antibiotics alone have difficulty reaching.