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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...
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...
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...
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...
Registration to BioCity Symposium is now open!
April 12, 2025
As always, BioCity Symposium is arranged on-site in BioCity, Mauno...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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