News archive for The Department of Biomedicine

A mutation that can cause autism (23.03.2018)

Read a summary of how researchers from UiB investigate new genetic variants associated with intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, and congenital abnomalies.

Killing cancer with rat poison? (22.03.2018)

Researchers at the University of Florence had been looking for an new anti-cancer drug, when they realized the old rat poison called Vacor could be the answer to their searches

Disputation: Henriette Christie Ertsås (20.03.2018)

Henriette Christie Ertsås defends her dissertation “The effects of ageing on microenvironment-contextual epithelialcell signalling” at the University of Bergen

Without NAA80 the brakes are off

Putting a break on cell movement (12.03.2018)

These researchers have made a sensational finding in cell biology. Adrian Drazic, Henriette Aksnes and Michaël Marie from Thomas Arnesen's group found an enzyme that others have been looking for for 30 years.