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Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have uncovered potential mechanisms by which microRNAs (miRNA) drive atherogenesis in a cell-type-specific manner.

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have discovered previously unknown non-coding RNAs involved in regulating the gene expression of vascular endothelial growth factors, the master regulators of angiogenesis.

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment announced yesterday 24 new Academy Research Fellow posts and 33 new Postdoctoral Researcher posts.

A top-level international research team including researchers from the University of Eastern Finland has developed a new algorithm for the diagnostics of dementia.

The Proof of Concept ideas funded in 2021 included a functional biomarker for Alzheimer's disease, a mathematic algorithm for the personalized prediction of aortic rupture, and enzymes cleaving biomass fibers.

The coronavirus pandemic has increased general interest in how viruses enter the brain, and what their effects on the brain are. There are receptors on the surface of some brain cells which allow the coronavirus to penetrate the cell.

The University of Eastern Finland has received EU funding to recruit 14 doctoral students into a four-year multidisciplinary Neuro-Innovation PhD programme, which will be implemented on the Kuopio campus.

The aim of the new national competence network is to increase cooperation between universities, hospitals, and the business worlds and to make Finnish neuroscience know-how visible internationally.

In the doctoral thesis of Meike H. Keuters, MSc, three promising compounds have been shown to improve the post-stroke outcome in mouse models of ischemic stroke.