Turku Bioscience Centre

Professor Riitta Lahesmaa awarded Johnny Ludvigsson Prize for Outstanding Nordic Researcher

October 16, 2025

Professor Riitta Lahesmaa was awarded Johnny Ludvigsson Prize for Outstanding Nordic Researcher. The prize is awarded annually by the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Foundation to a Read more

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PFAS levels in mothers’ blood associated with children’s brain structure and function

October 13, 2025

Researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, and Örebro University, Sweden, have discovered that the levels of PFAS in mothers’ blood during pregnancy is associated with their children’s brain structure and Read more

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Professor Laura Elo receives award for outstanding research from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation

October 10, 2025

The Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation awarded Professor of Computational Medicine Laura Elo a €50,000 prize for her outstanding research, development of international scientific collaboration, and contributions to training future generations of researchers. Elo is Read more

Recruit your next student at the MSc Thesis Project Expo 2025. Registration is now open!

October 10, 2025

Do you supervise MSc theses in the biosciences? Join the MSc Thesis Project Expo on Wednesday, 3 December 2025, and meet students who are eager to find their thesis projects. The MSc Thesis Project Expo Read more

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BioCity Turku Guest Seminar: Prof. Mark Daly

October 21, 2025

BioCity Turku Guest Seminar: Prof. Mark Daly

October 21, 2025

21st October at 12:00-13:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Prof. Mark Daly, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School, USA FinnGen and the road ahead in human genetics Host: Teemu Niiranen (tejuni@uti.fi) Mark Daly Event details

Turku Imaging Day 2025

October 22, 2025

Turku Imaging Day 2025

October 22, 2025

22nd October, whole-day event Onsite event in Holiday Club Caribia, Turku Registration for the Turku Imaging Day 2025 (TID) is open until Sptember 12, 2025! The event is organized by the Field of View Research Event details

Frontiers of Science: Prof. Francesca Bottanelli

October 23, 2025

Frontiers of Science: Prof. Francesca Bottanelli

October 23, 2025

23rd October at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Autumn 2025 program Prof. Francesca Bottanelli, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Unravelling the inner secrets of cells with live-cell super-resolution microscopy Host: Paulina Moreno Layseca (paulina.morenolayseca@utu.fi) Event details

Frontiers of Science: Prof. Maddy Parsons

October 30, 2025

Frontiers of Science: Prof. Maddy Parsons

October 30, 2025

30th October at 12:00 Onsite event in Presidentti auditorium, BioCity Autumn 2025 program Prof. Maddy Parsons, King’s College London, UK Imaging dynamics and mechanics in cancer Host: Guillaume Jacquemet (guillaume.jacquemet@abo.fi) Coffee and sandwich served at Event details

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Providing cutting-edge biomedical research services through advanced technologies and expert support.

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Research & Affiliate Groups

Collaborating across disciplines to drive innovative solutions and breakthrough discoveries.

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Publications

Annual publications showcasing impactful scientific contributions in leading international journals.

PUBLICATION

Characterization of Visceral Adipose Tissue Proteome Reveals Metabolic Changes and Inflammatory Signatures in Severe Obesity

Prince Dadson et al.

Obesity (Silver Spring). 2025 Oct 12. doi: 10.1002/oby.70041. Online ahead of print.

Published on October 12, 2025

CONCLUSIONS: These findings demonstrate significant molecular alterations in the VAT proteome associated with severe obesity, providing insights into the underlying mechanisms of metabolic disease. The Read more

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Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances predicts multimodal brain structural and functional outcomes in children aged 5 years: a birth cohort study

Aaron Barron et al.

Lancet Planet Health. 2025 Oct 9:101309. doi: 10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101309. Online ahead of print.

Published on October 12, 2025

BACKGROUND: Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous persistent organic pollutants associated with adverse health outcomes in humans. Although they are associated with autism spectrum Read more

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LimROTS: A Hybrid Method Integrating Empirical Bayes and Reproducibility-Optimized Statistics for Robust Differential Expression Analysis

Ali Mostafa Anwara et al.

Bioinformatics. 2025 Oct 11:btaf570. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf570. Online ahead of print.

Published on October 11, 2025

MOTIVATION: Differential expression analysis plays a vital role in omics research enabling precise identification of features that associate with different phenotypes. This process is critical Read more

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MicroRNA gene dynamics in immune cell subpopulations during aging and atherosclerosis disease development at single-cell resolution

Ana Hernández de Sande et al.

Genome Med. 2025 Oct 6;17(1):112. doi: 10.1186/s13073-025-01530-9.

Published on October 7, 2025

CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrate that miRNA gene transcriptional activity is widely impacted in immune cells by aging and during disease development and further identify the corresponding Read more

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Functional characterization and directed evolution of Cicer arietinum glutathione transferases for enhanced hydroperoxidase activity and ligandin function

Anni Kontouri et al.

Phytochemistry. 2025 Sep 27;242:114692. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2025.114692. Online ahead of print.

Published on September 29, 2025

Tau class glutathione transferases (GSTUs) play essential roles in plant defense by facilitating the nucleophilic attack of glutathione (GSH) to a wide range of electrophilic Read more

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Anisomelic acid promotes proteasomal degradation of HPV16 E6 via E3 ligase recruitment: A mass spectrometry-based interactome study

Michael Santos Silva et al.

J Proteomics. 2025 Sep 16;322:105536. doi: 10.1016/j.jprot.2025.105536. Online ahead of print.

Published on September 18, 2025

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a major driver of cervical and other epithelial cancers, with the viral oncoprotein E6 playing a central role in tumorigenesis by Read more

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Multimedia Science Communication

The Role of Multimedia in Science

October 13, 2025

Have you ever been to a talk or lecture and felt bored? The problem is rarely the science itself, but how it is presented. Cluttered slides, tiny text, odd color combinations, flickering screens, bad audio, Read more

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Career exploration week at the University of Turku: Surprises, Science & Early Morning Struggles

October 9, 2025

This was my first TET week and I got to go to the University of Turku. There has been all kinds of interesting and exciting stuff here, but the best thing is the university staff—many Read more

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