NLS Research

A new epidemiological study from Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden shows that there is a connection between high levels of the gastrointestinal hormone GIP in the blood, and an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. The intestinal hormones GIP and GLP-1 are important for insulin production in the pancreas, they form in the […]

Professor Ed Boyden has developed expansion microscopy, but his research expands beyond this discovery, for example into the exciting field of optogenetics.

A common and inexpensive drug may be used to counteract treatment resistance in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), one of the most common forms of blood cancer. This is the conclusion of a study in mice and human blood cells performed at Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab and published in the medical journal EMBO Molecular Medicine. […]

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Tampere University have developed a method based on artificial intelligence (AI) for histopathological diagnosis and grading of prostate cancer. The AI-system has the potential to solve one of the bottlenecks in today’s prostate cancer histopathology by providing more accurate diagnosis and better treatment decisions, state the researchers. The study, presented […]

Scientists at SciLifeLab have provided medical research with a detailed description of the proteins in human blood. Published in the journal Science, the Blood Atlas resource is the latest database to be released by the Human Protein Atlas program, which is based at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), a joint research center aligned with […]

As weather warms, heart attack risks may decline, says a Lund University study. Heart attacks seem more common in winter, doctors have long observed, including in a nearly 100-year-old clinical paper. To see if a rigorous analysis supports this observation, Lund University researchers merged data from SWEDEHEART, the registry for acute cardiac care outcomes in […]