A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences - News

New research sheds light on the mechanisms associating obesity with inflammation by exploring tiny membrane particles, known as extracellular vesicles, secreted by human adipocytes.

The programme integrates neuroscience, data science, innovation management, and social and legal studies across three UEF faculties.

Traffic-related ultrafine particles impair mitochondrial functions in primary human olfactory mucosa cells.

Scientific Councils have granted a total of 10.5 million euros of funding to 9 new Academy Research Fellows and to 11 Academy Projects at the University of Eastern Finland.

Funding was granted to three new Academy Research Fellows, 11 Academy Projects and one new Clinical Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland.

Researchers from the Neuro-Innovation PhD programme are organising, for the first time, an English-language science camp as part of SnellmanEDU’s Children’s University.

Basic science talks on early inflammatory activation in neurodevelopmental disorders were accompanied by perspectives from autistic people, educational professionals, and clinicians.

An international team of researchers has carried out a detailed investigation of early cellular and molecular responses of heart xenografts transplanted from pigs to humans.

Most of the miRNA biomarkers for TBI identified in animal models are also expressed in humans, meaning that they could potentially be used especially in identification of mild TBI.

Synaptic dysfunction appears to be a unifying feature of FTD patients regardless of if they carry an underlying genetic mutation or not.