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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a new sensory receptor organ that is able to detect painful mechanical damage, such as pricks and impacts. Pain causes suffering and results in substantial costs for society. Almost one person in every five experiences constant pain and there is a considerable need to find new painkilling […]

The inauguration was celebrated with a half-day event in Aula Medica focusing on science and collaboration. “Both Bayer and Karolinska Institutet welcomes collaboration between academia, healthcare and society – it is necessary to collaborate to meet global challenges – we are all in this together,” said Miriam Holstein, CEO of Bayer Nordics when she started […]

A Karolinska Institutet study on mice shows that the antibodies stabilise the plaque that accumulates on the artery walls, which reduces the risk of it rupturing and causing a blood clot. Atherosclerosis is characterised by the narrowing of the arterial walls resulting from the accumulation of lipids and cells – the so-called atherosclerotic plaque. When […]

Even premature babies carry anti-viral antibodies transferred from the mother, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report in a paper on maternal antibodies in newborns, published in the journal Nature Medicine. Antibodies are transferred from the mother’s blood to the fetus that give the newborn passive defense against infection. Since most of this process takes place […]

An international research team led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet report that bone growth in mice takes place in accordance with the same principles as when new cells are constantly produced in blood, skin and other tissue. This contradicts the previous understanding that bone growth depends on a finite number of gradually consumed progenitor cells. […]

Cholesterol metabolites cause specific immune cells in the large intestine to move, which lies behind the formation of the immune system’s important lymphoid tissue in the intestine, reports researchers at Karolinska Institutet. “We have discovered that ILCs use a surface protein called GPR183 to sense the oxysterols, which attracts ILCs to specific sites in the […]