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“Investing in hearing care can also help prevent memory disorders,” Professor Aarno Dietz pointed out in a workshop organised by the Hearing Valley project and the UEF Brain Research Unit.

Tutkimus syventää ymmärrystä siitä, miten hypoksia vaikuttaa geenisäätelyyn sydän- ja verisuonisairauksissa, ja nostaa esiin KDM-entsyymit mahdollisina uusina lääkehoitojen kohteina.

YUFE Ideas Lab is championing a new wave of European student entrepreneurs.

Automated insulin delivery pumps significantly improved quality of life and reduced diabetes-related complications.

Professor Tarja Malm has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for the WAVEAD project focusing on the development of novel methods for measuring the electrical activity of the brain.

Inhibition of the lipid kinases PIKfyve and PIP4K2C provides a potentially higher barrier to resistance than conventional therapies and could be beneficial in the treatment of diseases particularly in the case of emerging viruses.

Finland remains a world-leader in neonatal care, despite the country’s falling birth rate and, consequently, a decline in hospital delivery volumes.

Good physical performance is associated with better cognition in people with relapsing-remitting MS, according to a recent study by the University of Eastern Finland.

Exposure to alcohol during the first weeks of embryonic development changes gene activity and cellular metabolism. In laboratory cultures, it was found that the first cells of the nervous system are the most sensitive to alcohol.