NLS Research

We asked the new Swedish Minister for Higher Education and Research about what can be done to encourage and support women in science. Today is International Women’s Day and you are going to hold the opening speech at the Karolinska Institute seminar on the theme “Counteract sexual harassment and genus-based vulnerability in academia”. Overall, what […]

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. […]

Subpopulations of oligodendrocytes, myelin-producing cells in the brain that are targeted by the immune system in multiple sclerosis (MS), are altered in MS and might therefore have additional roles in the disease than previously described. Previously the researchers have investigated oligodendrocytes in a mouse model of MS and shown that they might have a significant role […]

A new study shows that there is a very limited regeneration of cells in the brain of patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). The disease progression in MS usually fluctuates between periods of deterioration and periods of remission. Studies in mice have shown that damaged myelin can be reformed, and that this requires generation of […]

Vinnova, RISE, University of Lund, University of Malmö and 12 companies are investing 110 million SEK during six years on a research center for the development of biopharmaceuticals. “The new way of developing pharmaceuticals today often mean that the large companies acquires parts of the devlopment chain from smaller companies with specialist knowledge. We have […]

After major global successes in the battle against malaria, the positive trend stalled around 2015 – apart from in Zanzibar in East Africa, where only a fraction of the disease remains. In a new study published in BMC Medicine, researchers at Karolinska Institutet explain why this was and show that new strategies are needed to eradicate […]