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Bergen Stem Cell Consortium meeting 2019 took place in Bergen where researchers not only from Norway but also from several European countries came together to discuss about recent development of research and clinical application in stem cell biology. Ph.D. candidate, Shuntaro Yamada, presented his ongoing work with the title of “Plasma surface activation of polymeric biomaterials improved seeding... Read more

The risk of cancer increases considerably if you gain weight before the age of 40. For endometrial cancer, the risk increases by 70 percent.

A team of CISMAC researchers has published the results of CISMAC’s first and largest randomized control trial in The Lancet.

MED reports that a UIB-study shows that boys who are obese in pre-puberty have an over two times higher risk of having children with asthma than those who are not.

As a child, Silke Appel was taken on ski trips to Geilo with her family from Berlin. Today she is a research director and deputy head of the Broegelmann Research Laboratory in Bergen, thanks to financial support from the Trond Mohn Foundation.

Researchers at the University of Bergen have identified new genetic signals for the regulation of how infants grow. This may be a crucial step in the fight against growth-related diseases.

Healthy neurons form synapses with aggressive brain cancer cells that stimulate the growth and proliferation of brain cancer. Anti-epileptic medicine can curb the dangerous communication and possibly be part of future treatment.

Iceland’s dramatic landscape served as backdrop for generating ideas and action plans for new collaborations between the University of Bergen/CCBIO and Harvard Medical School/Vascular Biology Program in a meeting August 29th to September 3rd.