NLS Research

Medical or surgical treatment of severe heartburn prevents cancer of the oesophagus, a study from Karolinska Institutet with almost one million Nordic patients reveals. The results are published in the scientific journal JAMA Oncology. In the present study, researchers used health data records from 1964 to 2014 from the five Nordic countries. Of the more than […]

The Swedish national government gives clearance to the detailed plan for Science Village at the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Brunnshög, Lund. The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority’s study has given answers to the questions that have been asked and work on the development of Science Village can now be intensified. The clearance enables the connection of the […]

Just before summer, the last piece of the puzzle in the building of the new Campus Flemingsberg, was inauguarated, forming a new hub of biomedical research in the Stockholm region. The new building, NEO, is Karolinska Institutet’s new building at Campus Flemingsberg for experimental biomedical research. It’s a hub for basic and clinical research as […]

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a hitherto unknown error in the transport of glutamine between astrocytes and neurons in the brains of mice with Huntington’s disease. In a new study, researchers from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research and the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen (published […]

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that one of the building blocks in the calcium channels in the pancreatic beta cells play an important role in regulating our blood glucose values. Treatments aimed at this building block may be a new way to combat primarily type 2 diabetes suggests the researchers in an article in […]

The President of Karolinska Institutet has made the decision to find seven researchers responsible for scientific misconduct in the Macchiarini case. The case concerns six articles published in the scientific journals The Lancet, Biomaterials, The Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, and Thoracic Surgery Clinics. Paolo Macchiarini is one of the main authors of the articles. The research reported in the articles relates […]