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New research in an article in PLoS Pathogens this week from authors Xiaogang Feng, Susanne Nylén, Cajsa Classon, Antonio Rothfuchs, Ulf Ribacke and Jonathan Coquet at MTC suggests that chronic infection with intestinal worms makes the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis less effective.

Colliding ideals - internal and external validity

The SFO for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine is proud to announce six awardees in the 2018 application round, two in each category.

On Friday May 25, Kathleen Bokenberger will defend her thesis "The role of sleep and shift work in dementia and cognitive aging: an epidemiological approach".

The Jan Albert Group's research collaborator is featured in a podcast interview in The Lancet.

The day of the week on which a patient has a lung cancer operation has no significance for their survival. This has been demonstrated by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in a new study published in the journal Chest.

Lars Jakobsson has received the Ruth and Nils-Erik Stenbäck Foundation grant, which is awarded annually to young scientists in mathematics, physics and chemistry by the Finnish Science Society. The scholarship proposal is made in collaboration with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Hello there Knut Lönnroth, professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences and director of KI’s new TB research centre ... why has KI set up a TB centre?

A study by researchers at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York University and University of Manchester published in PNAS shows that presence of DNA damage on the transcribed strand of a gene can induce transcription errors and subsequent production of protein with altered functions which could contribute to disease development.

Lisa Westerberg has received a 6 year research position from the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation.