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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimo for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. The Nobel Prize rewards the discovery and development of quantum dots, nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties. […]

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The discoveries were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during […]

An international team of scientists led by the University of Helsinki performed comprehensive mapping of structural alterations in cellular proteins during the aging process. In the study published in Molecular Cell, the team mapped structural alterations in cellular proteins during the aging process and, in the process, identifying new ways aging impacts how cells hum […]

HiLIFE Tenure Track Professor Helena Kilpinen and her group at the University of Helsinki use stem cells for studying the biological mechanisms of neurodevelopmental and other brain-related diseases. During the past ten years, scientists have learned to create induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) from ordinary cells by genetic reprogramming. These cells are widely used to study diseases, […]

Svante Pääbo receives the Prize for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. Svante Pääbo was born 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. He defended his PhD thesis in 1986 at Uppsala University and was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Zürich, Switzerland and later at University of California, Berkeley, USA. Pääbo became […]

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