NLS Research

Scientists at Denmark’s University of Copenhagen Biotic Research and Innovation Centre are trying to find a way to deactivate cells called fibroblasts, which can allow a malignant tumor to change and spread throughout the body. So far scientists have been able to observe how, and under which conditions, cancer cells activate fibroblasts. Finding out how […]

Onxeo has turned to the public markets for cash to fuel its research and development ambitions, starting a rights issue in a bid to raise up to €41.6 million ($52.2 million). The Franco-Danish biotech plans to use the cash to expand a Phase III study of its liver cancer drug and prepare to advance its […]

A new Swedish study showed that a group of overweight, post-menopausal women who followed the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations lost as much weight as those who ate a Stone Age-inspired diet. A Swedish doctoral dissertation from Umeå University compared the effect of these two diet options for two years on 70 women. While those who followed […]

Certain complications during pregnancy may be an indicator that a woman is at greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to researchers at Department of Public Health and General Practice at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Scientists have been aware that women who develop high blood pressure or preeclampsia during pregnancy are […]

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found that the human brain has more plasticity than originally thought, thanks to a type of support cell called the oligodendrocyte, which is critical to cell-to-cell communication in the nervous system. While earlier theories of brain plasticity have been based on lab animals, a study published in the […]

A type 2 diabetes clinical study from Karolinska Institutet showed lower blood glucose when using remote diabetes care system with patient app. The main finding reported by Professor Kerstin Brismar from Karolinska Institutet showed that by using the Triabetes smartphone app and TriabetesClinic online decision support service in Type 2 diabetes treatment long-term blood glucose […]