28 Current news from sweden
rss11-22-2011
Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have developed a new method for counting molecules. Quantifying the amounts of different kinds of RNA and DNA molecules is a fundamental task in molecular biology as these molecules store and transfer the genetic information ...
Lennart Nilsson Award 2011
10-19-2011
The 2011 Lennart Nilsson Award is to be presented to American biologist Nancy Kedersha, who is to receive the prize for her colour pictures showing the inner life of a cell.The panel’s citation reads as follows: “Nancy Kedersha’s colour images open our eyes to the smallest components of life. ...
09-30-2011
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have built a very simple nanoantenna that directs red and blue colours in opposite directions, even though the antenna is smaller than the wavelength of light. The findings – published in the online journal Nature Communications – can lead to ...
08-29-2011
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. reported that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Phadia. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, Phadia has approximately 1,500 employees globally and had 2010 revenue of €367 million (or approximately $525 million). Phadia will become part of Thermo ...
08-05-2011
Gyros AB announced the completion of a development program initiated to fulfill the requirements of scientists using the Company’s immunoassay platform in the biopharmaceutical industry. The development program has seen the release of a number of software modules and services to augment the ...
06-06-2011
Biotage announced a collaborative research agreement with The Laboratory of Peptide & Protein Chemistry & Biology (PeptLab) located in Florence, Italy. The peptide research facility, led by Professor Anna Maria Papini, has agreed to contribute technical input towards the future development of ...
05-04-2011
With their discovery, the scientists Johan Lindgren, Per Uvdal, Anders Engdahl, and colleagues have demonstrated that remains of type I collagen, a structural protein, are retained in a mosasaur fossil.The scientists have used synchrotron radiation-based infrared microspectroscopy at MAX-lab ...
03-21-2011
To date, scientists have been limited to running a small number of DNA samples at a time at a cost of SEK 100,000 per sample. KTH researchers have now come up with a new method which means that 5,000 samples can be run simultaneously for the same price. This cuts the cost per test result ...
02-07-2011
They are entirely too small to be seen even with the most powerful microscope. But now an international research team has managed to capture an image of an intact virus and a membrane structure from a photosynthetic bacterium with the aid of extremely intensive and ultra-short x-ray pulses ...
The Human Protein Atlas project has mapped 10,000 individual proteins to date
11-19-2010
Scientists in Sweden marked the half way point of a major, ground-breaking initiative to map every single protein in the human body. Once complete, the Human Protein Atlas will provide scientists with data which will help detect and treat some of the world’s most serious health problems such ...
