Turku Bioscience Centre

Turku Bioscience is an advanced core facility and research centre hosted jointly by University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University.

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News

Karoliina Hirvonen Defends PhD on Serum Proteome and Enterovirus Research

May 23, 2025

Karoliina Hirvonen from Riitta Lahesmaa lab defended her PhD thesis “Proteomics...

Finnish Science Award to Professor Johanna Ivaska

May 20, 2025

The Finnish Science Award 2025 has been awarded to Johanna...

cancer Ministry of Education and Culture

Inna Starskaia Successfully Defends PhD Thesis on Early Immune Response in Type 1 Diabetes

May 19, 2025

Inna Starskaia from Riitta Lahesmaa lab succesfully defended her PhD...

immunology Type 1 Diabetes

Researchers develop pioneering technology for sustainable agriculture with nearly €3M in EU-funding

May 16, 2025

Academy Research Fellow, Docent Alex Dickens will be spearheading the...

metabolomics

Laura Elo has been elected as a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

April 30, 2025

We are proud to announce that Laura Elo, Professor and...

bioinformatics

Registration to BioCity Symposium is now open!

April 12, 2025

As always, BioCity Symposium is arranged on-site in BioCity, Mauno...

BioCity Turku

Events

June 6, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm - The Finnish Society for Bioinformatics and CompLifeSci are proudly joining forces to organize the Bioinformatics...

June 13, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm - UTU Faculty of Medicine together with Turku BioImaging and the Field of View research program...

June 16, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm -

August 28, 2025 - August 29, 2025 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pm - The 34th BioCity Symposium focuses on drug development across a range of...

September 18, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - 18th September at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Hiroki Ueda, RIKEN Centre...

September 25, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - 25th September at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Olli Kallioniemi, FIMM, HiLife,...

Recent Publications

Biochemical and structural characterization of chlorite dismutase enzyme from Pseudomonas aeruginosa 

Dimitrios V Nokas et al.

FEBS J. 2025 Jun 3. doi: 10.1111/febs.70151. Online ahead of print.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Industrialization and urbanization have caused serious contamination of water bodies, and the removal of chemical contaminants has become a major challenge. Chlorite is a harmful anthropogenic compound with a serious...

A guide to heat shock factors as multifunctional transcriptional regulators 

Hendrik S E Hästbacka et al.

FEBS J. 2025 Jun 2. doi: 10.1111/febs.70139. Online ahead of print.

Monday, June 2, 2025

The heat shock factors (HSFs) form a family of transcription factors, which are evolutionarily conserved in eukaryotes. They are best known as transcriptional regulators of molecular chaperone genes, including those...

Proliferation of Human Cervical Cancer Cells Responds to Surface Properties of Bicomponent Polymer Coatings 

Emil Rosqvist et al.

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2025 May 9;15(10):716. doi: 10.3390/nano15100716.

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

The proliferation of human cervical cancer (Hela) cells was investigated on a series of nanostructured polymer latex surfaces. The physico-chemical properties of the surfaces, composed of mixtures of polystyrene and...

Dynamic regulation of integrin β1 phosphorylation supports invasion of breast cancer cells 

James R W Conway et al.

Nat Cell Biol. 2025 May 26. doi: 10.1038/s41556-025-01663-4. Online ahead of print.

Monday, May 26, 2025

Integrins provide an essential bridge between cancer cells and the extracellular matrix, playing a central role in every stage of disease progression. Despite the recognized importance of integrin phosphorylation in...

Mass spectrometric insights into the protein composition of human cutaneous neurofibromas: comparison of neurofibromas with the overlying skin 

Roope A Kallionpää et al.

Br J Cancer. 2025 May 20. doi: 10.1038/s41416-025-03055-9. Online ahead of print.

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

CONCLUSION: The cNFs are relatively quiescent, consistent with their benign nature and limited growth potential. The development of pharmacological therapy for cNFs requires overcoming the high similarity between cNFs and...

High-resolution live imaging of tardigrade response to anoxia 

Anna-Mari Haapanen-Saaristo et al.

Micron. 2025 May 9;196-197:103847. doi: 10.1016/j.micron.2025.103847. Online ahead of print.

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Tardigrades are well-known for their ability to tolerate extreme environmental conditions such as heat, drought and lack of oxygen by undergoing cryptobiosis. The molecular responses to stress have been studied...

CellRomeR: an R package for clustering cell migration phenotypes from microscopy data 

Iivari Kleino et al.

Bioinform Adv. 2025 Apr 4;5(1):vbaf069. doi: 10.1093/bioadv/vbaf069. eCollection 2025.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

MOTIVATION: The analysis of cell migration using time-lapse microscopy typically focuses on track characteristics for classification and statistical evaluation of migration behaviour. However, considerable heterogeneity can be seen in cell...

The ERBB2 c.1795C>T, p.Arg599Cys variant is associated with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction defects in humans 

Minna Ampuja et al.

HGG Adv. 2025 May 5;6(3):100446. doi: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2025.100446. Online ahead of print.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Non-syndromic congenital heart defects (CHDs) are occasionally familial and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) defects are among the subtypes with the highest hereditability. The aim of this study was...

HDAC1 is involved in the destabilization of the HSF2 protein under non-stress and stress conditions 

Kevin Daupin et al.

Cell Stress Chaperones. 2025 May 1:100079. doi: 10.1016/j.cstres.2025.100079. Online ahead of print.

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Heat shock transcription factors 1 and 2 (HSF1 and HSF2) are the major regulators of the cellular response to stressors, notably to heat shock and to oxidative stress. HSF1 and...

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