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A new study from deCODE genetics and collaborators is the first to uncover a strong recessive component in Alzheimer’s disease. deCODE genetics/Amgen, and collaborators from Iceland, USA, UK, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden recently published the study: “Homozygosity for a missense variant in R47H in TREM2 and the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease”, in New England Journal […]

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Innsbruck have developed a simpler and more effective screening method for cervical cancer than the method used today they state. A comprehensive study published in Nature Medicine shows that the test detects significantly more cancers and precancerous stages. Most countries have a very extensive screening program that […]

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet may have found a new way to treat obesity and related disorders by targeting the cells’ powerhouses, the mitochondria. A study published in Nature Metabolism shows that a specific class of drugs that block mitochondrial function can reverse diet-induced obesity, fatty liver and diabetes in mice. Professor Nils-Göran Larsson’s research group at Karolinska […]

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a web-based platform that provides new insight into the human body at the cellular level. The new Single Cell Atlas (SCA) is based on analyses of thousands of human tissue samples from 125 different adult and fetal tissues. The researchers combined eight omics technologies, including single-cell RNA sequencing, whole-genome […]

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a network of neurons in the brain of mice that help them make right and left turns. The researchers expect to find a similar right-left circuit in the human brain, and in the future, the discovery may be used in treatment for Parkinson’s disease. The study has […]

It is once again time to honor extraordinary scientific discoveries and welcome the Nobel Prize Laureates to Stockholm. This will be our 16th Nobel Prize coverage! We have covered the announcements, written about the discoveries and interviewed the Nobel Laureates since 2008 – and this year is no exception! Fresh from our latest issue, we […]