NLS Karolinska Institute

People with celiac disease, which is an  intolerance for gluten, are about 2.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with nerve damage than those without the disease, according to a study at Karolinska Institutet. The study involved 28,232 individuals from Sweden whose celiac disease was confirmed with small-intestine biopsies, alongside 139,473 age- and sex-matched controls, […]

Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet plans to launch a massive open online course (MOOC) in the area of e-health. Called MOOC eHealth –Opportunities and Challenges, the course is being delivered via the non-profit international education group edX, which started as a collaboration between Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The course begins April 22 and […]

In a study published this month, scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found that exercise can change the shape and function of genes. Through a process called methylation, clusters of atoms, called methyl groups, attach to the outside of a gene and make the gene more or less able to receive and respond to biochemical […]

Karolinska Institute develops cancer diagnostics and treatments in a new European consortium. A new European consortium is now being built – Cancer Core Europe – in which six of Europe’s most prominent cancer research centres take part. Karolinska Institutet is one of them. “KI wants to be part of creating new and improved treatment methods […]

Researchers have identified more than 100 positions in the human genome that can be connected to the risk of developing schizophrenia. An international research team, where scientists from Umeå University and Karolinska Institute take part, have presented a new study in Nature on the findings which could lead to new methods to treat the disease. […]

The parasympathetic nervous system appears to be formed in a way that is different from what researchers previously believed, according to new research from the Karolinska Institute. The new study, published in the journal Science, alter a fundamental principal of our understanding of how the peripheral nervous system develops in the body. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet […]