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AlgoDx, which focuses on supporting disease prediction with machine learning algorithms, has announced the obtention of regulatory approval from the Swedish Medical Products Agency (MPA) to start a sepsis prediction study at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Sweden. The study has previously been approved by the National Ethics Committee through an expedited review for […]

Antibiotics use, particularly antibiotics with greater spectrum of microbial coverage, may be associated with an increased risk of new-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and its subtypes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. That is according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Harvard Medical School in the United States, published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology. The […]

Oslo Science City is the first innovation district in Norway with the ambition to contribute to research excellence, jobs creation, the green shift and sustainable economic development. “We intend to develop a vibrant city area where people meet to innovate and explore what we still don’t understand,” says Christine Wergeland Sørbye, CEO of Oslo Science […]

In the research project NEUROPA Oulu researchers utilize recent progress in photonics, neuroscience and medicine to develop a non-invasive means of modulating specific neural pathways in the brain. The ultimate goal of the NEUROPA research is to provide treatment and alleviate the long-term brain dysfunction in certain neurodegenerative conditions, such as Huntington’s or Alzheimer’s disease. […]

Neuroscientists and stem cell researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a research model that allows studying human hippocampal neurons, the brain cells primarily affected by Alzheimer’s disease pathology. The study has been published in Stem Cell Reports. 3-D hippocampal tissue-like structures In Alzheimer’s disease the hippocampus, a brain structure that regulates motivation, emotion, learning, […]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Birgitta Henriques Normark the Torsten Söderberg Academy Professorial Chair in Medicine – a SEK 10 million grant over a period of five years. Common respiratory bacteria carried in the nose by healthy children, can sometimes cause life-threatening infections. Henriques Normark, Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Tumor […]