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Christel Sourander Successfully Defends Her Thesis

September 9, 2025

Christel Sourander successfully defended her thesis: “Identifying the effect of JNK on neural activity and synaptic plasticity related to anxiety and depressive like behaviours” on September 4th with Prof. Tomi Rantamäki from the University of Read more

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Researchers at Åbo Akademi University Discover a New Molecular Switch Regulating Breast Cancer Progression

September 4, 2025

A research group led by our our affiliated group leader Professor Lea Sistonen at Åbo Akademi University has discovered a new mechanism that regulates breast cancer progression. Breast cancer arises when the epithelial cells lining Read more

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Autumn 2025 Frontiers of Science seminars start soon

September 3, 2025

Frontiers of Science is a long-running seminar series, celebrating over 25 years of bringing internationally acclaimed researchers to Turku. Organized by BioCity Turku, the series features world-leading scientists presenting their most recent discoveries and innovative Read more

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The Elias Tillandz Prize to Turku Bioscience Researchers

September 2, 2025

The Elias Tillandz Prize for the Best Scientific Publication of 2024 was presented for two groundbreaking cancer studies from Jukka Westermarck's research group and Johanna Ivaska's research group. The lead authors of the Westermarck research Read more

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FFGC Sequencing day together with Illumina

September 16, 2025

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FFGC Sequencing day together with Illumina

September 16, 2025

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Join the Finnish Functional Genomics Centre (FFGC) and Illumina for an exclusive afternoon dedicated to cutting-edge sequencing technologies. Discover how our new NovaSeq X and MiSeq i100 plus platforms can transform your research, and engage Event details

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PhD-Postdocs lunch talk

September 17, 2025

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PhD-Postdocs lunch talk

September 17, 2025

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The TBC’s PhD-postdocs board is happy to announce a new season of lunch talks! We will start on Wednesday September 17th with two speakers from Cecilia Sahlgren’s lab: - Micropatterning as a tool to elucidate Event details

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Frontiers of Science: Prof. Hiroki Ueda

September 18, 2025

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Frontiers of Science: Prof. Hiroki Ueda

September 18, 2025

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18th September at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Autumn 2025 program Prof. Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo, Japan Why do we sleep? The role of calcium and phosphorylation in sleep Host: Diana Lehotina Event details

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What is Bioconductor? And Various Ways of Contributing to This Open-Source Project

September 29, 2025

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What is Bioconductor? And Various Ways of Contributing to This Open-Source Project

September 29, 2025

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In this seminar, Alexandru Mahmoud will present the open-source project Bioconductor. The talk will present the structure of the Bioconductor community and core team. Also, it will introduce several ways through which community members can Event details

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Annual publications showcasing impactful scientific contributions in leading international journals.

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HSF2 drives breast cancer progression by acting as a stage-specific switch between proliferation and invasion 

Jenny C Pessa et al.

Sci Adv. 2025 Sep 5;11(36):eady1289. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ady1289. Epub 2025 Sep 3.

Published on September 3, 2025

Breast cancer is hallmarked by phenotypic transitions enabling abnormal cell proliferation and invasion. The stress-protective transcription factor heat shock factor 2 (HSF2) is associated with Read more

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Breast Milk Proteome: Changes in the Different Stages of Lactation and Impacts of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Body Mass Index 

Timo Seitz et al.

Mol Nutr Food Res. 2025 Sep 1:e70225. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.70225. Online ahead of print.

Published on September 2, 2025

Breast milk proteome comprises hundreds of bioactive proteins supporting infant development. The extent to which maternal metabolic conditions modify the proteome is poorly known. This Read more

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Metabolome informs about the chemical exposome and links to brain health 

Matej Orešič et al.

Environ Int. 2025 Aug 22;203:109741. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109741. Online ahead of print.

Published on September 1, 2025

The metabolome is an intermediate phenotype, summarizing the profile of all small molecules (

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Designing Fluorescent Estrogen Mimetic 7-hydroxycoumarin Probe Substrates for Human Sulfotransferase Enzymes 

Risto O Juvonen et al.

Eur J Pharm Sci. 2025 Aug 28:107249. doi: 10.1016/j.ejps.2025.107249. Online ahead of print.

Published on August 30, 2025

Sulfonation is one of drug metabolism reactions affecting homeostasis of estrogens. C-3 aryl substituted 7-hydroxycoumarins are fluorescent estrogen mimetics; i.e., the hydroxyl groups of both Read more

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Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease in Two Field Spaniels With Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency 

Pernilla Syrjä et al.

J Vet Intern Med. 2025 Sep-Oct;39(5):e70223. doi: 10.1111/jvim.70223.

Published on August 27, 2025

Cholesterol ester storage disease (CESD) is a rare genetic lysosomal storage disorder resulting from lower lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) activity. LAL is an essential enzyme Read more

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The impact of conjugation strategies and linker density on the performance of the Spermine-AcDex nanoparticle-splenocyte conjugate 

Yuchen Su et al.

RSC Chem Biol. 2025 Jul 30. doi: 10.1039/d5cb00104h. Online ahead of print.

Published on August 18, 2025

A common approach in living medicine engineering is modifying cell surfaces with nanomedicines to form nanoparticle-cell conjugates. Despite various available strategies, limited research has examined Read more

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Turning KRAS Against Itself: A New Way to Kill Cancer Cells

September 9, 2025

We are excited to share the story behind our recent work, published in a scientific journal in 2024, where we uncovered a surprising vulnerability in some of the most aggressive cancers. Our work was one Read more

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From the Lab to the Stage: My 3MT Experience

May 20, 2025

I had the opportunity to present my PhD research in the finals of the University of Turku 3MT competition. It was a unique and rewarding experience to summarize my work in under three minutes to Read more

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Grateful to Be a Runner-Up in the University of Turku’s 3MT Competition!

March 10, 2025

I am excited and thankful to have been chosen as a Runner-Up in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition at the University of Turku on Wednesday, 5 March 2025. This experience has been thrilling, challenging, Read more

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New method for producing blood stem cells can revolutionize stem cell transplant therapy

November 5, 2024

A new method for producing blood stem cells may in the future replace voluntary bone marrow donors as a source of stem cell transplants. Four European research groups will work on developing the ground-breaking approach Read more

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