NCMM’s engineers met to discuss the results of the ARK survey; the purpose of the meeting was two-fold, to reinforce cohesion across the research groups, and to explore ways of improving their work environment.
The Norwegian Bioinformatics Days 2024 were held in Bergen at the end of May 2024. The program offered talks, discussions, and workshops on topics such as genomics, diagnostic bioinformatics, machine learning, and molecular modelling.
On the 3rd to 4th of June, NCMM and Associate Investigators gathered at Oscarsborg in Oslo fjord, for two days of scientific talks and networking.
During his PhD, Lin Xue would spend hours at the microscope, observing the possible first steps of creating living cells on the early Earth.
The NCMM annual report for 2023 is now available online.
With a shared goal of implementing AI technology to propel molecular medicine research, NCMM and Simula Research Laboratory organized a joint seminar for the two to meet and identify possible synergies.
NCMM is pleased to announce the 7 projects that have received support as part of the NCMM Joint Postdoctoral Program in Molecular Life Science.
Elizabeth Smethurst is the new Head of Research Strategy, Communication and International Relations at NCMM.
OBiWoW 2023 brought together the scientific community for practical workshops on bioinformatics tools and pipelines.
Centromeres are essential for healthy cell division. Researchers now reveal the mechanism that allow them to form.
The EATRIS-Plus Staff Exchange Programme brings postdoctoral researcher Vipin Kumar to the Sahlen group at SciLifeLab, to help uncover the role of long non-coding RNA in gene regulation.
The link was found in a Norwegian mother-child cohort study of breastmilk and confirmed in zebrafish models.
Since its release 20 years ago, JASPAR has provided researchers with access to regularly updated and experimentally curated transcription factor binding profiles. The 10th update of JASPAR now expands this widely used resource even further.
Biswajyoti Sahu, Marieke Kuijjer and Anthony Mathelier have each been awarded funding as part of the Norwegian Cancer Society’s annual main call.
As part of Forskningsdagene, representatives from NCMM gave visiting students and families insight into working with zebrafish in the lab.
Researchers have found a way to make pancreatic cells from completely different cell types. This will be an important tool for accelerating the discovery of new treatments of pancreatic cancer.
The 12th annual Nordic EMBL Partnership brought together members from all four Nordic nodes to Espoo, Finland on 11-14 September 2023.
Sissel Eikvar joined NCMM in August as the new health, safety and environment-coordinator.
Charlotte Boccara is awarded 1.5 million euros for the project SleepCog. The aim is to determine how important sleep is for the healthy development of the brain.
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The Kuijjer group present PORCUPINE, a computational tool for pinpointing drivers of cancer heterogeneity that may guide personalized cancer treatment.
A large, international collaboration has led to the discovery of the first genetic variant associated with more severe disease progression in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Researchers at NCMM have demonstrated the mechanisms behind the activation of Aurora B, a central conductor of cell division. Their findings can lay the foundations for developing new cancer drugs.
On the 14th to 15th of June, NCMM and Associate Investigators gathered at Strömstad Spa, Sweden, for two days of excellent scientific talks and networking.
The NCMM annual report for 2022 is now published online
