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Graphene and the Microbiome

February 14, 2023 | | Posted in Newsletter

Graphene oxide influences gut microbiome and immune system interactions
“The gut microbiome produces metabolites that interact with the aryl hydrocarbon receptor [MORE]

Drone Delivery of a Defibrillator

June 28, 2022 | | Posted in Newsletter

This drone responds to heart attack patients
“In January, while he was out shoveling snow in Trollhättan, Sweden, a man was [MORE]

Fat, Inflammation and Insulin Insensitivity

October 26, 2021 | | Posted in Newsletter

White adipose tiissue
“We [Karolinska Institute] provide a spatial map of human WAT [white adipose tissue] organization and demonstrate that the [MORE]

Nobel Physiology or Medicine Winners, 2021 

October 12, 2021 | | Posted in Newsletter

Nobel-Prize-Medicine 2021
“Our ability to sense heat, cold and touch is essential for survival and underpins our interaction with the world [MORE]

A Urine Test for Precision Asthma Diagnosis

September 28, 2021 | | Posted in Newsletter

Urine test for asthma
“Researchers at the Karolinska Institute (KI) in Sweden have developed a non-invasive urine-based test that can identify [MORE]

Reactivating the p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene

September 7, 2021 | | Posted in Newsletter

Cancer immunotherapy reactivates tumor suppressor protein
MAIN rarely covers drug discovery, which is a huge field in itself, but this piece [MORE]

Computing Cell Fate

October 2, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

Computational models to sort out the chaos medium
Subtle differences in transcription factors determine cell behavior in, say, a heart cell [MORE]

Technologies for Pain Control

August 18, 2015 | | Posted in Newsletter

DIY Optogenetics
Pain is what drives more people to seek medical attention than any other symptom. Its cost is nearly incalculable. [MORE]

Chitosan Nanoparticles in Gene Therapy Delivery

January 17, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

This story is on the far side, but perhaps most interesting because of that.  Researchers at Sweden’s renowned Karolinska [MORE]

Bioengineered Voicebox

June 7, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Several research groups around the world have now removed cells from cadaver organs, reseeded the remaining protein scaffolding with [MORE]

Services for Next Generation DNA Sequencing

December 21, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

Qiang Pan Hammarström, PhD
Besides figuring out new ways to run sequencers (e.g. IBM’s new nanopore approach, in the Nov. 3 [MORE]

First Artificial Nerve Cell

August 11, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

Swedish researchers at a government-financed “Center of Excellence in Organic Bioelectronics” have developed an artificial nerve cell that, instead of [MORE]