NLS Karolinska Institutet

Yesterday the Principal of Karolinska Institutet decided not to prolong professor Macchiarini’s employment when it ends in November 2016. The Head of the institution where Macchiarini belonged has been assigned to make sure that the working hours that he has left is spent on dismantling the research he has performed at the Karolinska Institute. He […]

Approximately twenty years before the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease appear inflammatory changes in the brain can be seen, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet. The findings have been published in the medical scientific journal  Brain . The findings of the researchers, who monitored several pathological changes in the brain, suggest that activation of […]

Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Karolinska Institutet have entered a collaboration agreement for the establishment of a research center exploiting the human microbiome. The programme will be fully funded by Ferring Pharmaceuticals and governed by a joint steering committee. The proposed project focuses on therapeutic areas where Ferring has extensive expertise. Karolinska Institutet has a deep understanding of […]

Researchers from Sweden´s Karolinska Institutet  have demonstrated a new, direct signalling pathway through which motor neurons influence the locomotor circuits that generate rhythmic movements. The results were presented in the journal Nature. Locomotion is essential to all animals and is based on a carefully balanced interaction between the muscles and the brain. Nerve cells are typically […]

Sterilised mosquito nets can replace costly surgical meshes in the repair of inguinal (groin) hernias without further risk to the patients. This makes mosquito nets a good alternative for close to 200 million people in low-income countries suffering from untreated groin hernias. These are the results of a Swedish-Ugandan study presented in the prestigious  New […]

A study is to be conducted for the first time involving the transplantation of stem cells into unborn babies with the brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta, which causes repeated fractures often before birth. The study is to be coordinated by Karolinska Institutet but to be run as a collaboration between several leading European research centres and […]