Discovery of how parasite sticks to blood vessels could lead to new means to combat malaria

07-06-2013

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, the University of Oxford, NIMR Tanzania and Retrogenix LTD, have identified how malaria parasites growing inside red blood cells stick to the sides of blood vessels in severe cases of ...

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03-06-2013

Europeans live longer and healthier lives than in the past, partly due to successful environmental policies that have reduced the exposure to harmful environmental contaminants in air, water and food, according to a new report. However, these contaminants are still a problem, and several new ...

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23-05-2013

Earthquakes, snakes, forest fires – none rob humans of life more frequently than the tiny clumps of fat, calcium and cholesterol we know as blood clots. Every fifth human dies when a blood clot, or more correctly cholesterol plaque, loosens and gets stuck somewhere in the heart or brain ...

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14-05-2013

From microscopes to MRI scanners, imaging technology is growing ever more vital in the world's hospitals, whether for the diagnosis of illness or for research into new cures. Imaging technology requires dyes or contrast agents of some sort. Current contrast agents and dyes are expensive, ...

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06-05-2013

On May 1st, CLC bio moved their Danish headquarters to Prismet - a local landmark highrise office building in Aarhus. Experiencing significant growth due to a long term positive development in sales, the number of employees at CLC bio has increased by more than 50% worldwide in the past two ...

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26-04-2013

Viewing sexually explicit material through media such as the Internet, videos, and magazines may be directly linked with the sexual behavior of adolescents and young adults, but only to a very small extent. That is the conclusion of a new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine. The ...

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14-01-2013

With applications spanning from non-shrink dental fillings to DNA-drugs the so-called dendrimers are a near magical material. Now a chemist from the University of Copenhagen has vowed to make the weird molecules famous. When a molecule's structure resembles that of two tree crowns growing ...

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08-01-2013

Zealand Pharma (ZEAL) announces the appointment of Agneta Svedberg as the company’s new Chief Operating Officer. Effective from 1 February 2013, she will join the Executive Management team to replace Senior Vice President and COO, John Hyttel, one of the founders of Zealand Pharma, who is ...

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05-10-2012

LEO Pharma has revealed plans to establish five long-term, strategic research collaborations from now until the end of 2013 in Australia, France, Germany and the US. The research will supplement LEO Pharma’s internal R&D activities.Each collaboration will integrate discovery research and ...

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01-10-2012

Studying gut bacteria can reveal a range of human illness. Now, new research shows that the composition of a person’s intestinal bacteria could play an important role in the development of type 2 diabetes. These results, from a joint European and Chinese research team, have been published in ...

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