NLS Research

The national board of SciLifeLab has decided to launch nine new national facilities available for Swedish researchers with start January 1st 2015. The new national facilities will be incorporated into the existing SciLifeLab national platforms and include activities also at Umeå University (cryo EM), Linköping University (CyTOF) and Chalmers University of Technology (Big Data). Two facilities […]

Karolinska Institute develops cancer diagnostics and treatments in a new European consortium. A new European consortium is now being built – Cancer Core Europe – in which six of Europe’s most prominent cancer research centres take part. Karolinska Institutet is one of them. “KI wants to be part of creating new and improved treatment methods […]

Advanced biomedical research facilities for EUR 114 million will soon begin to take shape in the University Park at Aarhus University.  The first sod is being cut for a new building complex that will provide the future framework for the outstanding research at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University. Comprising two parallel buildings containing new […]

The K.G. Jebsen Center for colorectal cancer research has now been opened. The center is led by Ragnhild A. Lothe, co-director Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, University of Oslo. The colorectal cancer research center will focus on improving the methods for diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer and will receive NOK 16 mill over a 4-year […]

A simple test to indicate risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease could become a possibility in the future. Researchers at Lund University have previously found Alzheimer related biomarkers in the spinal fluid among people with mild memory difficulties. They have shown that a low level of beta-amyloid increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In the group […]

Botox could become a new cancer treatment. In laboratory tests at The Faculty of medicine, NTNU University in Trondheim, Botox proved highly effective at suppressing gastric cancer in mice. Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Columbia University and MIT, along with researchers from Japan and Germany have now shown that the vagal […]