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• KI becomes first university in Sweden to offer open online courses for a global student audience

  A new partnership with educational platform edX means that Karolinska Institutet has become the first university in Sweden to offer internet-based courses to hundreds of thousands of students around the world. “This means that we have put ourselves way ahead of the field as we meet the future’s dema more

• Experience leads to the growth of new brain cells
  

  How do organisms evolve into individuals that are distinguished from others by their own personal brain structure and behaviour? Scientists in Dresden, Berlin, Münster, and Saarbrücken have now taken a decisive step towards clarifying this question. Using mice as an animal model, they were able to s more

• Children of divorced parents more likely to start smoking

  Both daughters and sons from divorced families are significantly more likely to initiate smoking in comparison to their peers from intact families, shows a new analysis of 19,000 Americans. This University of Toronto study, published online this month in the journal Public Health, shows that men who more

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• Increased productivity for downstream processing of biotherapeutics
  

  Polymer-based chromatographic resins featuring high mechanical and chemical stability and high protein binding capacities can help to increase the throughput and robustness of biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes. Advances in genetic engineering and cell culture technology have raised upstream productivity in the production of recombinant proteins. Increased titres of up to 10 g/l stress the need for highly efficient and robust downstream processes (DSP). Most industrial bioprocess development groups apply generic DSP platforms that are designed to purify various candidates of the same class of proteins applying the same process design. Besides various filtration and virus inactivation steps, they usually involve two or three chromatographic unit operations with orthogonal separation modes. The use of high capacity chromatographic resins can help to overcome the DSP bottleneck by increasing process throughput and robustness more

• Superior Transfection of Human Embryonic Stem Cells with FuGENE® HD Transfection Reagent
  

  Gene manipulation techniques are potentially powerful tools in many applications for human embryonic stem (ES) cell research. Controlling expression levels of specific genes may improve the efficiency of differentiation induction. Cell types of interest may be collected using marker genes and antibiotic resistance genes. Tracking of ES cells derived after engraftment could be facilitated by tracer genes. It may also be possible to selectively destroy transplanted cells. more

Publications Education

• Descriptive Epidemiology of Idiopathic Clubfoot

  Abstract Clubfoot is a common structural malformation, occurring in approximately 1/1,000 live births. Previous studies of sociodemographic and pregnancy‐related risk factors have been inconsistent, with the exception of the strong male preponderance and association with primiparity. Hypotheses more

• Driving students into science is a fool’s errand

  Driving students into science is a fool’s errand Nature 497, 7449 (2013). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/497289a Author: Colin Macilwain If programmes to bolster STEM education are effective, they distort the labour market; more

• Science in schools

  Science in schools Nature 497, 7449 (2013). doi:10.1038/497287b The US National Center for Science Education teaches researchers how to fight for their cause. more

Market studies Education

• Czech Republic Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q2 2012

  BMI View: We retain our negative outlook for the pharmaceutical market in the Czech Republic, expecting a 1.8% contraction in its value in local currency terms in 2012, following the 1.0% year-onyear (y-o-y) decrease calculated for 2011. While the increase in the value-added tax (VAT) will negate th more

• Chile Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q3 2012

  BMI View: Chile’s intellectual property (IP) regime continues to be a cause of concern for the manufacturers of innovative pharmaceuticals, with the country listed on the Priority Watch List of the 2012 Special 301 report. While the data protection regime has been improved, concern remains over len more

• India Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q3 2012

  BMI View: India's pharmaceutical regulator should drop its requirement for local clinical trials in order for a new medicine to receive approval. The country does not have the necessary number of trained professionals to effectively monitor the costly and timely process. Patients would benefit from more

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