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Svante Pääbo receives the Prize for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. Svante Pääbo was born 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. He defended his PhD thesis in 1986 at Uppsala University and was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Zürich, Switzerland and later at University of California, Berkeley, USA. Pääbo became […]

Scientists at deCODE genetics together with collaborators from Denmark report on the whole genome sequences of 150 thousand participants in the UK biobank in a paper published in the journal Nature. This is the first report from the largest whole genome sequencing effort to date where scientists from deCODE genetics and the Wellcome Trust Sanger […]

A variant typical of the Finnish population that protects against heart diseases was identified in the FinnGen genomic study coordinated by the University of Helsinki. The risk of developing heart diseases is roughly one-fifth lower in carriers of the variant compared to the population on average. The protective effect of the newly discovered variant against […]

Turning down the thermostat seems to make it harder for cancer cells to grow, according to a study in mice by researchers at Karolinska Institutet. The study, published in the journal Nature, found that chilly temperatures activate heat-producing brown fat that consumes the sugars the tumors need to thrive. Similar metabolic mechanisms were found in […]

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 shed light on a simple, sustainable and smart molecular building tool that has had a great impact on pharmaceutical production.

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in producing brain scans that detect the presence of alpha-Synuclein.