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[News 2013-10-14] Before a packed auditorium and after a full inauguration programme, the foundations chairperson, Stefan Persson, symbolically handed over the Aula Medica key to Vice Chancellor Anders Hamsten.

New research from Karolinska Institutet and the Stockholm South General Hospital shows that the alpha-gal carbohydrate, which is found in the tick intestine, can cause allergic reactions to red meat in bitten people.

A new registry study, dismiss the long-debated association between celiac disease – gluten intolerance – and increased risk of autism spectrum disorders. The study was led from Karolinska Institutet and is now published in JAMA Psychiatry.

A new study published in the research journal PLOS Pathogens, shows for the first time the essential role of the molecule SOCS3 in the control of Tuberculosis. This could have impact on the future development of a vaccine.

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have identified the neuronal circuits in the spinal cord of mice that control the ability to produce the alternating movements of the legs during walking. The study, published in the journal Nature, demonstrates that two genetically-defined groups of nerve cells are in control of limb alternation at different speeds of locomotion, and thus that the animals' gait is disturbed when these cell populations are missing.