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Coelacanth genome reveals clues to evolution of terrestrial animals
New research results published in the scientific journal Nature today show that the Lungfish, not the Coelacanth, is the closest relative of land-living animals. Kerstin Lindblad-Toh at Uppsala University and Broad Institute has led the study where an international group of researchers have mapped the Coelacanth’s genome and compared it to genomes of land-living animals. [...]
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Kerstin Lindblad-Toh awarded Göran Gustafsson Prize
The Göran Gustafsson Prizes are Sweden’s finest national research awards to young researchers in natural sciences. Kerstin Lindblad-Toh has been awarded the prize “for her studies of mammals’ genomes, which have led to identification of the genomes’ functional parts”. Kerstin Lindblad-Toh is Professor of Comparative Genetics at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology at [...]
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SciLifeLab DAY: Everything from nanomedicine to patents
How have our cells developed? Why should you apply for patents and what is the best way to analyse our research results? These were a few of the questions raised at a scientific meeting at Uppsala University this week. 300 researchers, including everything from chemists to physicians, gathered to exchange knowledge and strengthen the multi-disciplinary [...]
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Increased survival rates for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma
A new population-based study from Karolinska Institutet has shown that the survival rate for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma – a form of cancer of the lymphatic system – has seen considerable improvements in recent decades. The number of patients suffering from treatment-related heart complications with fatal consequences has for example reduced as a result of [...]
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Lack of sleep? Keep away from the buffet
New research from Uppsala University shows that sleep-deprived people select greater portion sizes of energy-dense snacks and meals than they do after one night of normal sleep. Poor sleep habits can therefore affect people’s risk of becoming overweight in the long run. The findings are published in Psychoneuroendocrinology. In a previous article, published in Journal [...]
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INTRODUCING STUDENTS TO ABR
In January 2013, ReAct organized an introductory course on antibiotic resistance (ABR) in collaboration with Global Health/IHCAR at Karolinska Institutet. The course gathered 25 students enrolled in programs in Sweden who want to work with ABR in their native countries. The students mainly belong to the networks; I-Act in Iraq and Literate Masses in Pakistan. [...]
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New cancer diagnostics project selected for BIO-X support in collaboration with Roche
Uppsala BIO has signed a new agreement with the global pharmaceutical and diagnostics company Roche to support Liquid Biopsy, a new BIO-X project. The project aims to evaluate a new technology to isolate and measure all types of suspended cancer cells, including circulating tumor cells, CTCs, from blood, and thus pave the way for better cancer [...]
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AstraZeneca offering up to USD 5 million for interdisciplinary research
AstraZeneca and SciLifeLab are inviting researchers at the four universities behind SciLifeLab to apply for funding by submitting project pre-proposals. Five to ten open collaborative research projects will be selected to receive financial support for up to five years. In April 2012 AstraZeneca joined Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation and the Swedish Government in the [...]
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KI scientists in flagship projects on the mysteries of the brain and graphene
EU’s Human Brain Project, which is co-led by Professor Sten Grillner from Karolinska Institutet (KI), is set to receive over a billion euro for neuroscientific research into the workings of the brain. Researchers from KI are also part of the other EU flagship project, which is being run from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. [...]
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Ethical challenges of human brain simulation
One of the greatest challenges of modern science is understanding the human brain. Uppsala University’s Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB) is part of the European Commission flagship initiative to simulate the human brain and will look at the philosophical and ethical implications of this. The Human Brain Project (HBP) is one of two [...]