NLS Research

According to a new study by researchers from Karolinska Institutet and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, direct contact between different types of immune cells protects tissues from being attacked by the immune defence. In type I diabetes, immune cells kill insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. It remains largely unknown how target tissue is […]

Karolinska Institute and Stockholm County Council are to establish a common regional biobank during 2014. SMB will be a central resource for compiling, storing and using common biobank samples as well as providing access to them. The purpose with Stockholms Medicinska Biobank, SMB, is to increase the access of biobank samples for medical research. The new […]

The Swedish Research Council has by order of the Swedish government been assigned to evaluate the operations at the research center. SciLifeLab is run in collaboration by KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm University and Uppsala University. The purpose with the review is to bring clarity on how the four institutions […]

There is once again hope of a new anti-inflammatory drug based on the principal of blocking LTA4 hydrolase. There have been great expectations regarding the production of a drug to block the enzyme LTA4 hydrolase, which plays a key role in the body’s inflammatory response. However, in clinical trials, such molecules have proven to be […]

Researchers from Finland and Estonia have identified four biomarkers that help to identify people at high risk of dying from any disease within the next five years. The researchers screened blood samples from over 17 000 generally healthy people for more than a hundred different biomolecules. The health status of these study volunteers was followed for […]

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland announce preliminary promising results from its pilot study with a camera to recognise early stages of cancer. VTT has developed a lightweight, handheld, ultra-precision hyperspectral camera for the detection of skin cancers and their precursors. From the surface of the skin, the camera recognises early stages of cancer that are invisible […]