HomeUniversity of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

Snapshot of a specialised nerve cell

Study suggests middle age as a pivotal period for brain health

Defects in this recycling process have been linked to neurodegenerative disorders.

A man with brown eyes and a white finger on his face

A new method for treating dry eyes

The technology utilizes the eye's own mechanism.

neutron-star merger

Neutron-star mergers: Shedding light on Quark matter mysteries

Determining the bulk viscosity based on string theory and perturbative QCD.

The intricate rings of a tree trunk

Tree rings hide secrets about the most significant solar storm in history

Tracing the largest solar storm in modern times from tree rings in Lapland.

different layers inside a massive neutron star

Massive neutron stars hiding cores of deconfined quark matter

The result was reached through massive supercomputer runs utilizing Bayesian statistical inference.

3d medical background with male figure and virus cells

COVID-19 changes gene activity in olfactory mucosal cells in Alzheimer’s

Distinct immune responses after infection between AD patients and healthy individuals.

Image showing The molecular models in the image made using QuteMol (Tarini, Cignoni & Montani 2006.

Maternal microbiota impact fetal development

Maternal microbiota's effect on fetal intestine, brain, and placenta.

Energy conversion is an essential feature of life. Enzyme Complex III catalyzes proton pumping in in the mitochondria of the cells

Hydrogen bonding plays an important role in mitochondrial disease mutation

Dysfunctions in the energy generation process in mitochondria may lead to a number of diseases.

High-frequency oscillations

A new means of neur­onal communication dis­covered in the hu­man brain

A new functional coupling mechanism between neurons.

Principle of photo-acoustic laser absorption spectroscopy in trace gas detection

World record in detecting extremely low levels of gas impurities

It improves the signal-to-noise ratio of absorption spectroscopy by roughly a factor of five.

Confirming the existence of quark cores inside neutron stars has been one of the most important goals of neutron star physics for the last 40 years.

A new type of matter discovered inside neutron stars

Normal matter consists of atoms that have protons, neutrons, and electrons. In the case of neutron stars, the atomic matter is known to crumble...

A new study shows how planes can affect clouds, boosting rainfall up to 10 times in narrow bands.

How planes can significantly boost rainfall in their path

A new study by the American Geophysical Union, the airplanes, in addition to creating pollution, also mess with clouds as they pass through or...

CRISPRa reprogrammed induced pluripotent stem cell colonies stained for pluripotency marker expression.

A new method for turning skin cells into pluripotent stem cells

Our bodies comprise of various sorts of cells, each with their own particular part. The Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka had made before the revelation,...

Recent Stories