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Funding was granted to three new Academy Research Fellows, 11 Academy Projects and one new Clinical Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.

The University of Eastern Finland is particularly successful in climate action, the latest THE Impact Ranking shows.

Periodontitis, an inflammation of the structures supporting the teeth, significantly increases the risk of stroke in people under 50 years of age who do not have any known predisposing causes.

Researchers from the Neuro-Innovation PhD programme are organising, for the first time, an English-language science camp as part of SnellmanEDU’s Children’s University.

Basic science talks on early inflammatory activation in neurodevelopmental disorders were accompanied by perspectives from autistic people, educational professionals, and clinicians.

Some cancer cells can survive chemotherapy, which may lead to cancer recurrence. A new study reveals how cancer cells can perform this "evasive maneuver” in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

A new study revealed that dogs can learn to identify concentrations of eucalyptus hydrolate that are clearly below the detection threshold of sophisticated analytical instruments used today.

An international team of researchers has carried out a detailed investigation of early cellular and molecular responses of heart xenografts transplanted from pigs to humans.

Most of the miRNA biomarkers for TBI identified in animal models are also expressed in humans, meaning that they could potentially be used especially in identification of mild TBI.

Synaptic dysfunction appears to be a unifying feature of FTD patients regardless of if they carry an underlying genetic mutation or not.