News archive for Faculty of Medicine

NAA10 - A Jack-of-all-trades protein in human cells

A Jack of all Trades in Cancer Cells (14.03.2019)

Cancer is a complex disease caused by a multitude of factors gone wrong in the cell. NAA10 may be one such factor. This is a protein that performs many different tasks, including the most common which is catalyzing the acetylation of cellular proteins. NAA10 can therefore be viewed as a ”Jack of all trades”-protein. For two decades it has been linked to cancer progression, but recent data puts... Read more

Using spatial-temporal data analyses to explain impact of HIV treatment in Kenya (12.03.2019)

Although across Kenya there has been a significant decrease in HIV positivity between 2015 and 2017, there are still some gaps that can be identified through spatial-temporal analyses and modelling. A PhD student from CIH talked about his work with spatial-temporal analyses at the prestigious CROI conference held 4-7 March, 2019 in Seattle.

How to read a nutritional content table, and what you should pay attention to (01.03.2019)

– When a product is labeled with a keyhole, it does not mean that the product is healty, but that it is healthier than similar products, says nutrition experts Cathrine Horn and Vegard Lysne.

Big test of bars (01.03.2019)

- Two of these are as unhealthy as candy.

Fecal transplantation is good for abdominal symptoms for IBS patients (01.03.2019)

Placing stools from healthy people in the stomach improved both the symptoms and bacterial flora in the intestines of persons with a variety of irritable bowel syndrome.

EU MAXIBONE General Assembly, Bergen (01.03.2019)

The first General Assembly of the EU Maxibone Project was held in Bergen from 11-12. February 2019.