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Our immune system is powerful in fighting infection, but can also specifically kill malignant body cells such as cancer cells. When we get vaccinated, the immune system gets trained and prepared for these fights. But it is believed that vaccines might also have the potential to educate our immune system to fight cancer cells.
By Markus Haug, Research Scientist, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine.
My personal experience from the Nepal Earthquake in 2015, and lessons learned from Dhulikhel Hospital (DH).
Samita Giri, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
At the Center for Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR) we have discovered a new mechanism for how our immune cells recognize streptococcal bacteria that can cause serious infections in both newborns and adults.
Using a new ultrasound technique, we have been able to visualize and measure how efficiently blood flows through the heart chambers in young children with congenital heart disease. We studied 37 children aged two weeks to 10 years, and among the 26 children, which had congenital heart disease, we found less efficient hearts, meaning they use more energy than a normal heart.
Blogger: Ekaterina Zotcheva, PhD Candidate, Department of Public Health and Nursing In 2015, approximately 47 million people worldwide were living with dementia. As populations…
Blogger: Richard Kumaran Kandasamy Associate Professor and Onsager Fellow at Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (SFF-CEMIR) Our innate immune system is the first and most important…
Menno Oudhoff, researcher at CEMIR, received 6,5 million kroner from the Norwegian Cancer Society today. He was one of 34 recipients in the country,…
To identify some of the early-career scientists on their way to more widespread acclaim, Science News surveyed 30 Nobel Prize winners to learn whose work has…
Edvard Moser is appointed External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Neurobiology in Martinsried near Munich Over the last couple of…
The British-born Pauline Braathen has given US $5 million to establish a new centre at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU. The…