News archive for The Department of Biomedicine

Professor James Lorens and his group use nanotechnology to study tissue production and cancer development.

Date: 11.02.2010

Neuroblastoma cells are typically arrested at an early and immature stage. The stage of neuroblastoma tumor cell differentiation is known to influence patient outcome, with a high differentiation stage correlating to favorable prognosis.

Date: 19.11.2009

In connection with the Norwegian National Protomics Meeting 26th-27th Hasmik Keshishian from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was an invited speaker. After the meeting she remained in Bergen to assist PROBE in setting up the Targeted protein quantification method Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) in a state of the art manner. This method is now available at PROBE.

The board of FUGE (the Functional Genomics programme of Norway) has granted 2,3 mill NOK to be distributed to research projects in order stimulate use of bio bank material in proteomic research. This is part of the effort to stimulate researchers to utilize multiple FUGE platforms in their research and to encourage contact and interdisciplinary cooperation between the different technology... Read more

The partners in Medviz and the Molecular Imaging Centre (MIC) together aim to establish a large scale core facility, From Molecule to Man, for medical imaging in Bergen. The facility will comprise all relevant imaging modalities from molecular imaging to clinical scanners as well as all the relevant support functions and will have open access to all Norwegian researchers. It is now up to the NRC... Read more

After 25 years of research on integrins, the picture of how integrins have evolved is becoming clearer. At the same time, model organism will continue to offer valuable systems to elucidate the function of integrins in different tissues.