Using low sun protection factor may increase the risk of melanoma. Cutaneous melanoma is one of the most rapidly increasing cancers in Norway and is becoming a major public health challenge.
Quality assurance of the management base and cost estimates before the project is submitted to Parliament for approval and funding (QA2) of the planned life science building at UiO started August 16th according to the time schedule and is to be finished till Christmas.
At the 14th and 15th of September the Nordic Life Science Days is arranged in Stockholm. In the evening the 13th a Norwegian–Swedish networking is taking place at the Norwegian Embassy in Stockholm.
The Neanderthals lacked several of the genes that can lead to schizophrenia. Does this mean that the genes for schizophrenia are linked to what makes the human species so successful?
Three out of four people could avoid knee surgery with a new form of exercise therapy, with significant cost savings for society.
The director for UiO:Life Science, Finn-Eirik Johansen, has established an advisory management team and hired Morten Egeberg as the administrative leader for UiO:Life Science.
Join a virtual tour in the planned life sciences building at UiO. Watch the tour in 3D on your smartphone using VR glasses.
It is well known that the drug ASA, also known internationally as Aspirin, has analgesic and fever-reducing properties. However, this drug may also increase the likelihood of surviving colon cancer.
The immune defence systems of healthy individuals may become key to future cancer treatment.
Can knowledge about one disease help us to find treatment for another disease?
Together with an international research group, Bente Halvorsen, Professor of Medicine at the University of Oslo, has found a new and effective way to treat hardening of the arteries. The idea came from an unexpected source.
“Oh, you're so hormonal!". We all understand what that means: moody and volatile. But hormones do much more than influence our mood. Without hormones our bodies simply would not function.
British Reuters visited the research group of Professor P?l Rongved at the School of Pharmacy and has made a video about the group's cutting edge technology against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Nature or nurture? Epigenetics is about how both genes and the environment shape us and make us who we are. Doctoral research fellow Ellen Wikenius wanted to make her field more widely accessible. The animated film "Epigenetics: nurture vs nature" is now ready.
Researchers at UiO and NCMM have discovered that the system used by bacteria to transport magnesium is so sensitive that it can detect a pinch of magnesium salt in a swimming pool.
The researcher Geir ?ge L?set established the company Nextera on the basis of his own research at UiO. He believes that innovation is a state of mind that needs to be inculcated from the very start of studies. Nextera’s groundbreaking technology facilitates the development of new, targeted drugs that can treat chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases with fewer side effects, and thereby benefit society considerably.
‘To reach the stage of a clinical trial is exciting and challenging, and such a huge step,’ says Agnete B. Fredriksen, Chief Scientific Officer at Vaccibody, as she describes the process of taking her vaccine research further to a company that tests its products on humans and has built up a network of global partners.
Researchers at the institute are developing an app that can help spread new and credible knowledge.
24 pictures give you an insight into the everyday work of life sciences researchers at UiO and UiO’s work related to the priority area UiO:Life Science.
UiO has many life sciences researchers who are working to discover how the brain develops throughout the lifespan and what are the underlying causes of brain disease.
What happens to a stock of fish if we overexploit it? When do we need to stop fishing to save a stock from collapse? The CEES at UiO is engaged in cooperation with Nordic, European, Russian and American scientists to find answers to such questions.
The Clinical Effectiveness Research Group at UiO is engaged in close collaboration with top researchers at Harvard University to find out what is effective and ineffective in the prevention of colorectal cancer. They undertake studies that few others are able to emulate.
A new and simpler surgical method for the treatment of intestinal perforation is a poorer alternative for patients compared to the old method, researchers at the University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital find. The study raises important questions about the testing of new surgical methods.
Increasing numbers of younger people are being admitted to hospital with heart attacks. Researchers are now hoping that more people will change their lifestyle if they know their own heart age.
The University of Oslo is conducting a number of life-science projects that share the same goal: to address the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance, considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be one of the greatest health threats the world is facing. Interdisciplinary collaboration is required to solve this huge challenge to societies worldwide.
