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Global report – June 24, 2024

Exclusive interview: Jens Juul Holst

His is not a household name, but the drugs developed thanks to Danish scientist Jens Juul Holst’s research certainly are. Jens Juul Holst, a professor of medical physiology at the University of Copenhagen, is the man who made “gut” hormones famous world-wide. In 1986, he and his research team discovered glucagon-like peptide 1, known to […]

Profiles in Science – June 18, 2024

“I would like to push the field of cell therapy forward”

Anna Falk, Head of Lund University’s Center for Advanced Therapies (LU-ATMP) and principal researcher of the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet (KI) shares insights into her research, her multi-faceted job, and her vision for the future of neuroscience. Anna Falk is a molecular biologist with a PhD in neural stem cells and adult neurogenesis. […]

Science – September 20, 2023

New study: How proteins’ structural changes contribute to aging

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 […]

Business – May 16, 2023

From theory to therapy: Anti-obesity drugs

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 […]

Nobel Prize Discoveries – March 28, 2021

CRISPR/Cas9 – Rewriting the code of life

The discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors has revolutionized a lot of research areas, not least within life sciences, and the technology is bringing hope for new cancer therapies and the treatment of inherited diseases. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna’s discovery of CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. This enzyme […]

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