Faculty of Medicine

• Genetic regulation of metabolomic biomarkers – paths to cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes
  The new findings of the researchers at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) may help in elucidating the processes leading to common diseases. The study was published in Nature Genetics.(1.2.2012)
  
• Breast cancer spread triggered by a cleaver-wielding protein on cancer cell’s surface 
  Scientists from the University of Helsinki and UCSF have exposed a cell pathway that breast tumor cells use to destruct local tissue neighborhood. Cancer cells may use this pathway to free themselves from mammary epithelial tissue architecture, to spread to surrounding tissues.(23.1.2012)
  
• Lymph vessel researchers are on a quest to fight public health diseases
  A European-American research network coordinated by Academy Professor Kari Alitalo is investigating the role of lymph vessels in the development of obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The project has received funding worth six million US dollars from a French foundation (18.1.2012)
  
  
  
  

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